Shooting at school

Update: 4:45 PM

A Statement from UALR Chancellor Joel Anderson:

“After having reviewed the situation with my leadership team, I have decided to cancel classes tonight. Our concerns today are for the young man and his family and for the safety and sense of security of all members of the UALR community. Although there appears every reason to believe the incident and any threats related to it are over, I believe cancellation of evening classes is appropriate. Classes will resume on schedule tomorrow morning.”

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Update: 3:36 PM
(Copied from Campus Alert System)
The victim in this case is being treated at a local hospital. The suspects in this case, 2 African American males, one with afro style hair, have departed the area, unknown location at this time. The suspect vehicle description as of now is a cream color to gold midsize Japanese make possibly a Nissan, early to mid 2000’s with right side damage. Current state, the campus is safe and secure with all operations back to normal.

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Original News Item:
An African American male was shot around 2:10 p.m. today near the tennis court on University Drive. The victim is a current UALR student. Two suspects in a gold car fled the scene. UALR Students, faculty and staff were quickly alerted via an all campus telephone and email alert system.

Further details will be provided via the campus alert system, as well as the UALR website.


Well, I haven't written in a while and wanted to do something good, like all the FOs I have or cats on tuesday, but today I will just talk about this. The shooting happened about 15 minutes after I walked through that area to go watch movies at our Middle Eastern Film Festival. I will post more about that later, too. We in the room in the student center found out about the shooting. around 3:15, an hour after it happened. On the website where I found this video, the chief of UALR police went on record saying our alert system was successful. BULLSHIT. They tested this crap a couple of weeks ago and it was bullshit. They email you (I don't carry around a laptop, most students don't) and call you, the caller ID lists "unknown name unknown number". I don't know about you, but most people don't answer for that. I don't. So, of course I was unhurt, and I am assuming that the victim will recover. I feel sorry for him. It was broad daylight, people are always walking through there. My class was canceled tonight, thats why I have the time to post this. Hopefully next post will be happier.

UPDATE: The video wouldn't work, so I posted the UALR bulletin. Here is a link to the video I tried to post.
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0208/499549.html