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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A gunman who killed three people and critically
wounded a fourth at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before
dying in a shootout with police, did not appear to be targeting
students, according to two law enforcement officials with direct
knowledge of the investigation.
Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as
the gunman roamed UNLV’s Lee Business School on Wednesday and opened
fire just before noon on the fourth floor, where faculty and staff
offices for the accounting and marketing departments are located.
One of the officials said the gunman was a longtime business
professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at UNLV. The other law
enforcement official identified the suspect as Anthony Polito, 67.
Both officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information
publicly.
Investigators searched an apartment in Henderson, Nevada, late
Wednesday as part of the investigation and retrieved several
electronic devices, including Polito’s cellphone, one of the
officials said.
In America, the right to own guns fuels violence that increasingly
overshadows other rights.
In recent years, U.S. courts have embraced an increasingly
absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment, contributing to
the proliferation of firearms.
Almost 400 million guns are in civilian hands in the US, and they
have enabled hundreds of mass killings.
To many Americans, that violence feels like a growing threat to the
right to worship in peace, to go to school or to “the pursuit of
happiness.”
Polito was a professor in North Carolina at East Carolina
University’s Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management
from 2001 to 2017, according to a statement released Thursday by the
school. He resigned in January 2017 as a tenured associate
professor.
One of Polito’s former students at East Carolina University, Paul
Whittington, said Polito went on tangents during class about his
many trips to Las Vegas. Polito told his students he visited twice
yearly, staying in different hotels and going to various clubs,
Whittington said.
“He was really really, really fixated on the city of Las Vegas,”
Whittington said. “I think he just really liked going there.”
Polito also seemed obsessive over anonymous student reviews at the
end of each semester, Whittington said. Polito told Whittington’s
class that he remembered the faces of students who gave him bad
reviews and would express that he was sure who they were and where
they sat, pointing at seats in the classroom, Whittington said.
“He always talked about the negative feedback he got,” said
Whittington, now 33, who took Polito’s intro to operations
management class in 2014. “He didn’t get a lot of it, but there
would always be one student every semester, or at least one student
every class, that would give a negative review. And he fixated on
those.”
The attack at UNLV terrified a city that experienced the deadliest
shooting in modern U.S. history in October 2017, when a gunman
killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 after opening fire from
the window of a high-rise suite at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas
Strip, just miles from the UNLV campus.
Lessons learned from that shooting helped authorities to work
“seamlessly” in reacting to the UNLV attack, Clark County Sheriff
Kevin McMahill said at a news conference.
Police didn’t immediately identify the victims, or the attacker’s
motive. They also didn’t say what kind of weapon was used.
After opening fire, the gunman went to several other floors of the
business school before he was killed in a shootout with two
university police detectives outside the building, which is next to
the university’s student union, UNLV Police Chief Adam Garcia said.
Authorities gave the all-clear about 40 minutes after the first
report of an active shooter.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many of the school’s 30,000 students
were on campus at the time, but McMahill said students had been
gathered outside the building and the student union to eat and play
games. If police hadn’t killed the attacker, “it could have been
countless additional lives taken,” he said.
“No student should have to fear pursuing their dreams on a college
campus,” the sheriff said.
UNLV professor Kevaney Martin took cover under a desk in her
classroom, where another faculty member and three students took
shelter with her.
“It was terrifying. I can’t even begin to explain,” Martin said. “I
was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to
cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience
again.”
Martin said she was texting friends and loved ones, hoping to
receive word a suspect had been detained. When another professor
came to the room and told everyone to evacuate, they joined dozens
of others rushing out of the building. Martin had her students pile
into her car and drove them off campus.
“Once we got away from UNLV, we parked and sat in silence,” she
said. “Nobody said a word. We were in utter shock.”
Student Jordan Eckermann, 25, said he was in his business law class
in a second-floor classroom when he heard a loud bang and a piercing
alarm went off, sending students to their feet.
Some of his classmates ran out in panic, but Eckermann said he
peered outside the classroom first before leaving. He said he saw a
law enforcement officer in a bulletproof vest holding a long gun,
while clothing, backpacks and water bottles lay scattered on the
floor.
Minutes later, when he was outside, Eckermann said he heard bursts
of gunshots coming from outside the business school, totaling at
least 20 rounds. The air smelled of gunpowder. He said he kept
walking away from campus.
Classes were canceled through Friday at the university, and UNLV’s
basketball game at the University of Dayton, Ohio, was canceled
Wednesday night because of the shootings. Wrangler National Finals
Rodeo also canceled the events that were scheduled Thursday night at
the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV.
https://apnews.com/article/campus-shooting-las-vegas-unlv-
0b12656a801e227d6aa2b9ccee56d9f6
The AP blames inanimate object as the root cause of violence because
of misuse.
The AP improperly capitalizes "Black" in their article headlines.
The AP does not take ethnic groups to task for their terrible social
behavior and crimes against society in general.
The AP never mentions mental health or gay issues as the root cause
of problems - they blame everyone else.
wounded a fourth at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before
dying in a shootout with police, did not appear to be targeting
students, according to two law enforcement officials with direct
knowledge of the investigation.
Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as
the gunman roamed UNLV’s Lee Business School on Wednesday and opened
fire just before noon on the fourth floor, where faculty and staff
offices for the accounting and marketing departments are located.
One of the officials said the gunman was a longtime business
professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at UNLV. The other law
enforcement official identified the suspect as Anthony Polito, 67.
Both officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of
anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information
publicly.
Investigators searched an apartment in Henderson, Nevada, late
Wednesday as part of the investigation and retrieved several
electronic devices, including Polito’s cellphone, one of the
officials said.
In America, the right to own guns fuels violence that increasingly
overshadows other rights.
In recent years, U.S. courts have embraced an increasingly
absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment, contributing to
the proliferation of firearms.
Almost 400 million guns are in civilian hands in the US, and they
have enabled hundreds of mass killings.
To many Americans, that violence feels like a growing threat to the
right to worship in peace, to go to school or to “the pursuit of
happiness.”
Polito was a professor in North Carolina at East Carolina
University’s Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management
from 2001 to 2017, according to a statement released Thursday by the
school. He resigned in January 2017 as a tenured associate
professor.
One of Polito’s former students at East Carolina University, Paul
Whittington, said Polito went on tangents during class about his
many trips to Las Vegas. Polito told his students he visited twice
yearly, staying in different hotels and going to various clubs,
Whittington said.
“He was really really, really fixated on the city of Las Vegas,”
Whittington said. “I think he just really liked going there.”
Polito also seemed obsessive over anonymous student reviews at the
end of each semester, Whittington said. Polito told Whittington’s
class that he remembered the faces of students who gave him bad
reviews and would express that he was sure who they were and where
they sat, pointing at seats in the classroom, Whittington said.
“He always talked about the negative feedback he got,” said
Whittington, now 33, who took Polito’s intro to operations
management class in 2014. “He didn’t get a lot of it, but there
would always be one student every semester, or at least one student
every class, that would give a negative review. And he fixated on
those.”
The attack at UNLV terrified a city that experienced the deadliest
shooting in modern U.S. history in October 2017, when a gunman
killed 60 people and wounded more than 400 after opening fire from
the window of a high-rise suite at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas
Strip, just miles from the UNLV campus.
Lessons learned from that shooting helped authorities to work
“seamlessly” in reacting to the UNLV attack, Clark County Sheriff
Kevin McMahill said at a news conference.
Police didn’t immediately identify the victims, or the attacker’s
motive. They also didn’t say what kind of weapon was used.
After opening fire, the gunman went to several other floors of the
business school before he was killed in a shootout with two
university police detectives outside the building, which is next to
the university’s student union, UNLV Police Chief Adam Garcia said.
Authorities gave the all-clear about 40 minutes after the first
report of an active shooter.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many of the school’s 30,000 students
were on campus at the time, but McMahill said students had been
gathered outside the building and the student union to eat and play
games. If police hadn’t killed the attacker, “it could have been
countless additional lives taken,” he said.
“No student should have to fear pursuing their dreams on a college
campus,” the sheriff said.
UNLV professor Kevaney Martin took cover under a desk in her
classroom, where another faculty member and three students took
shelter with her.
“It was terrifying. I can’t even begin to explain,” Martin said. “I
was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to
cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience
again.”
Martin said she was texting friends and loved ones, hoping to
receive word a suspect had been detained. When another professor
came to the room and told everyone to evacuate, they joined dozens
of others rushing out of the building. Martin had her students pile
into her car and drove them off campus.
“Once we got away from UNLV, we parked and sat in silence,” she
said. “Nobody said a word. We were in utter shock.”
Student Jordan Eckermann, 25, said he was in his business law class
in a second-floor classroom when he heard a loud bang and a piercing
alarm went off, sending students to their feet.
Some of his classmates ran out in panic, but Eckermann said he
peered outside the classroom first before leaving. He said he saw a
law enforcement officer in a bulletproof vest holding a long gun,
while clothing, backpacks and water bottles lay scattered on the
floor.
Minutes later, when he was outside, Eckermann said he heard bursts
of gunshots coming from outside the business school, totaling at
least 20 rounds. The air smelled of gunpowder. He said he kept
walking away from campus.
Classes were canceled through Friday at the university, and UNLV’s
basketball game at the University of Dayton, Ohio, was canceled
Wednesday night because of the shootings. Wrangler National Finals
Rodeo also canceled the events that were scheduled Thursday night at
the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV.
https://apnews.com/article/campus-shooting-las-vegas-unlv-
0b12656a801e227d6aa2b9ccee56d9f6
The AP blames inanimate object as the root cause of violence because
of misuse.
The AP improperly capitalizes "Black" in their article headlines.
The AP does not take ethnic groups to task for their terrible social
behavior and crimes against society in general.
The AP never mentions mental health or gay issues as the root cause
of problems - they blame everyone else.
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