Who knew? I Suspected--

BREAKING NEWS [from my U]
Student arrested after bringing 2 guns into library, kidnapping roommate
by Carolyn Casey
Staff Writer

Police arrested an U senior carrying two loaded guns in A Library last night, after he had held his roommate at gunpoint Monday.

The A and U police departments responded to a call at about 9:20 p.m. from a library employee who said a suspicious man had been walking around the second floor Learning Commons for hours.

The police came onto the second floor, spoke with reference desk employees and started evacuating half of the floor quietly and quickly, said H, a library employee.

Officers cleared students and staff from the half of the floor closest to the P Place entrance before confronting the suspect, Ryan S, who was located near the elevators, according to an PD incident report. The police took S, 25, into custody and charged him with abduction and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon.

Though police could not estimate how many students were on the second floor, no one was hurt at the time of the incident.

“I was at a computer station, and all of a sudden I heard cops yelling ‘Get on the ground; get on the ground; where’s the guns?” said Mike C, an U sophomore.

C, who was about 30 feet away, said the officers took multiple weapons from what he described as a thicker, white male wearing a heavy metal t-shirt.

“(The police) came loaded to deal with a major threat,” he said.

S’s roommate, who had been forced to drive S around , went to PD at 7 p.m. Tuesday after escaping, said PD Lt. Fish. Officers immediately began looking for S.

U sophomore Kristin C, who was at the second floor of the library last night, said she got up from her computer to use her cell phone in the stairwell when the police appeared and wrestled S to the ground.

“The cops all had guns, and one was pointing (a gun) at him,” C said. “They said if he didn’t give up the guns they would put one in his head.” ">S, of Sville, was kept at the S Regional Jail overnight on a $20,000 bond and has a 9:30 a.m. hearing at the City Municipal Court, located in the city building.



Yes, I suspected that our U was cultivating the precise climate for such an occurance; in fact, I've been watching for such an episode since Columbine, 9/11, ect. Wait--suspected, or feared? The library, naturally, is the central hub where I work, a few hundred feet away. Friends with whom I had lunch with yesterday work on the 2nd floor, where this took place. I wonder if this story will break the news, or if my U will keep it hush, like the rapes on campus?

Violence happens. Closer and closer.