Shooter goes on rampage at University

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A lone gunman entered a science building at Seattle Pacific University yesterday and started firing away with his shotgun. He killed 1 and seriously injured 2 others before a student monitor sprayed him with pepper spray while he was reloading and then tackled him shortly before the police broke through.

Seattle Police report that the shooter was intent on "shooting up a school" and had recently visited Columbine High School.

The university had recently practiced a lockdown for such an event and the system throughout the campus worked as alarms sounded and classes immediately shutdown.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/shooting-seattle-pacific-university/ngFbf/

http://seattletimes.com/html/home/index.html



The picture below is the kid who had the pepper spray and tackled the gunman.

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CNN covers the story.

Hero student tackles gunman, saves classmates

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/justice/seattle-campus-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

CNN profiles the kid (Jon Meis) who sprayed and tackled the gunman.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/us/seattle-hero-profile/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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The 26-year-old gunman, Aaron Ybarra, was obsessed with the Columbine High School shootings and had even traveled to the Colorado site where two student gunmen killed 15 and injured another 21 fellow students in April 1999, police sources told KIRO 7.

Ybarra was not a student where the shootings happened about 3:25 p.m. Thursday. In a statement Thursday night, police said they had "not found any connection between the suspect, Seattle Pacific University or any of the victims."

Clearly the guy had some emotional issues.