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Active shooter at Delta State University - 1 confirmed dead

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by bigpern23, Sep 14, 2015.

  1. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    According to their Facebook feed, the campus is on lockdown.

    EDIT TO ADD: The campus is located in Cleveland, Mississippi. Emergency update reads:
    Delta State University has confirmed one fatality. Campus remains under lockdown. Please stay inside and away from windows. More information will be shared as soon as it is available.

    Mississippi Highway Patrol, Cleveland Police Department and the Bolivar County Sheriff's Department are all on hand.
     
  2. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

  3. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I know a ton of Delta State grads. There has been a huge pipeline of athletes from my high school to DSU because a prominent local politician was a big football star there in the late 1960s.
     
  4. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    A friend of mine is a former faculty member there and shared the initial emergency post on her Facebook page. I hadn't ever heard of it until she got hired a few years back.

    Updates sound more and more like the professor was targeted. I haven't seen any reports of injuries or shots fired outside of his office. Shooter is still at large so, at least for now, this doesn't look like a rampage shooting followed by suicide.
     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Professor on professor crime.
     
  6. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

  7. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Yikes. Love triangle?
     
  8. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Maybe he used too many big words. o_O
     
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  9. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    One shot?
    One gawd-damn shot?
     
  10. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    And...? Why does this surprise you?
     
  11. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Think the name of the town.
    Think a popular baseball movie about it.
     
  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    This quote from DSU student is just bizarre.

    "(Mississippi State University) caught their gunman, but we can't even catch ours. Our campus is a lot smaller than Mississippi State's."
     
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