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Gunman reported at Texas college

 

• Gunman reported at a Lone Star College campus in Houston, Texas
  
• School has asked students to take shelter, school spokesman says
  
• Below are the latest updates as they come to us; full story here
  

[updated at 2:28 p.m. ET] The FBI and ATF have sent agents to assist local authorities, according to Shauna Dunlop with FBI Houston and Franceska Perot with ATF Houston.

[updated at 2:27 p.m. ET] A witness told CNN affiliate KPRC that she hid underneath her desk while she heard five or six gunshots at Lone Star College.

[updated at 2:26 p.m. ET] One person has been transported to Houston Northwest Medical Center, according to spokeswoman Ashley Walton.

 

She would not give any further details about the patient.

[updated at 2:14 p.m. ET] Students were filing out of what CNN affiliate KHOU reports is the library on campus.

[updated at 2:10 p.m. ET] Video from CNN affiliate KPRC shows law enforcement personnel herding people from one part of the campus to another.

[updated at 2:02 p.m. ET] Students at a Lone Star College campus in Houston have been asked to take shelter after reports of a gunman on campus, a school spokesman said.

Oh for the love of god...

yesterday in my city a 12yr old boy shot his 16yr old brother in the head and killed him :( :unsure:

CTV Montreal

Published Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 8:52AM EST

Last Updated Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 1:48PM EST

 

Crown Prosecutors say a 12-year-old boy will face charges in connection with the shooting death of his brother.

The boy, who cannot be named to protect his identity, is scheduled to appear in youth court any time after 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

In an interview that wrapped up at 5:30 a.m., the boy told police that on Monday afternoon he took the firearm from a closet in his Dorval home before accidentally shooting his 16-year-old sibling in the head.

 

 

Read more: http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/12-year-old-facing-charges-following-brother-s-death-1.1124178#ixzz2Ijg2lXKz

Damn this stuff again, honestly with all these around I wouldn't feel comfortable at all going to school if I lived in the US. We have had these happenings around here Finland too but still gun violence isn't even nearly as bad here although a lot of guns around.

I feel 110% safe going to school. You are more likely to fall to your death than to be shot. This title is misleading. It was a shooting on a campus, which by the way is a gun free zone (yeah, that worked!) between two idiots who shot each other after an argument. The other two injured were caught in the cross fire. This EXACT same thing happens EVERY day on the streets with much worse outcomes. Just because it happened on a school campus makes the media go nuts. None of the gunmen went there to shoot random students.

 

Where I go to school there are at least 15-20 people around me at any given time that have concealed handguns on them and yet my university has bever had a shooting. These recent shootings have been pushed by the media way too much to the point where people forget the actual facts. For example, how often does the media exaggerate an aviation situation/emergency? We all laugh at the media for those because of how far off they are from facts, it is identical with the current gun stories.

This EXACT same thing happens EVERY day on the streets with much worse outcomes.

Exactly what streets are you walking down??? :huh: I can't think of the last time I heard of someone being shot on the streets, even in rough parts of a city, it's not something as common as you make it sound...

 

Regards,

Ró.

http://m.ocregister.com/news/old-408675-year-police.html 5 seconds of googling news for "gang shooting" USA by the way is where I'm talking

Be grateful then that you don't live in the Chicagoland area then, Ró...

 

It's sad that around here one can count the number of days in a full year that don't have a fatal shooting wouldn't exhaust the fingers on one hand... :wacko:

Be grateful then that you don't live in the Chicagoland area then, Ró...

 

It's sad that around here one can count the number of days in a full year that don't have a fatal shooting wouldn't exhaust the fingers on one hand... :wacko:

I've spent a fair quantity of my time abroad in Chicago, and perhaps I only see it through hotel and bus windows, but even still I've never felt threatened there. Much of those gangland crimes don't happen on the streets, but in private residences and premises out of the way of the public, much fewer murders take place in the open public as was suggested.

 

And Also, to take Chicago as an example of the US is hardly fair, there are many many parts of the US where a shooting is unheard of . Admittedly I don't pay much attention to American news when I'm stateside, but still, it can't be as prevalent as the previous post made out, while there may be a chance of getting shot walking down the street, it's not as if it's 'likely' or happens "Everyday on the streets " or people would never leave their homes.

 

And @pvupilot, I had indeed gone under the assumption we were discussing the USA.

 

Regards,

Ró.

Exactly what streets are you walking down??? :huh: I can't think of the last time I heard of someone being shot on the streets, even in rough parts of a city, it's not something as common as you make it sound...

 

Guess you haven't been to Detroit lately. Looking at the daily docket at the medical examiners office, the fatal shootings are many, and occur daily. The media only reports on a few. Sad and sickening, but true.

With a country the size of the US, it would be a miracle if one day went by without someone being shot on the street somewhere.

Ró, I suspect that you've never spent any time at all on the southside of Chicago, or the gang-infested neighborhoods that've now spread across the state line into Northwest Indiana where I live. Many of the deaths from gunfire in Chicagoland are innocents caught in the cross-fire of driveby shooting incidents. Even being indoors in one's own house isn't always a safe proposition either, as stray bullets penetrate the thin walls of poor residences quite easily... :blush:

 

Honestly, one of the only reasons I feel relatively "safe" is that all the gang members in my neighborhood know that I'm a retired priest, and oddly enough they actually still have enough respect for the clergy to leave us alone, and in some twisted manner of logic actively try to protect us!

 

Nonetheless, there's a reason why I spend every 4th of July and New Years Eve in my basement, where I have a lounge area set up and can sleep on the sofa...

 

...as it seems every idiot who owns a gun seems to think it's "fun" to fire off hundreds of rounds in celebration...

Exactly what streets are you walking down??? :huh: I can't think of the last time I heard of someone being shot on the streets, even in rough parts of a city, it's not something as common as you make it sound...

 

Regards,

Ró.

 

We hear about exactly that, street crime, all too frequently here in the Boston area. I don't personally see this, as this kind of thing is generally confined to certain sections of the city. The victims and their killers are statistically more likely to be minorities, and gangs and drugs are frequently involved.

 

If you don't see this on your visits, be grateful for it. You're not hanging out in the wrong places with the wrong people.

The victims and their killers are statistically more likely to be minorities, and gangs and drugs are frequently involved.

 

If you don't see this on your visits, be grateful for it. You're not hanging out in the wrong places with the wrong people.

But that's not really a fair point of view, they get involved in that sort of life, you increase your risk. For your average Joe Bloggs shop worker, software engineer, doctor, teacher, clerk etc who lead a 'normal' life, the risk of getting shot walking down the street is low is it not, or have I really been living in an absolute bubble on my trips to the states?

Guess you haven't been to Detroit lately. Looking at the daily docket at the medical examiners office, the fatal shootings are many, and occur daily. The media only reports on a few. Sad and sickening, but true.

 

Detroit happens to be one of my favourite cities, I find it fascinating with its histrory and now abandoned areas, A great city to photograph. I am a big music lover so both Chicago and Detroit as well as New Orlean's has a lot of great history.

 

I've never had any problems on any of my visits to Detroit and find the people there to be very welcoming to visitors. I used to live in Toronto when I was younger so we did a lot of night-clubbing between Toronto and Detroit as it is only about 3 hour drive.

 

But yes, it does have its problems but it also has a lot of character. Give me a city with grit anyday...