Wesleyan Shooting

[xenadanielle]

This story is really freaking me out--campus is in lockdown...

Wesleyan U. suspect's family: 'Turn yourself in'

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Anxious students at Wesleyan University huddled in their dorms Thursday and the city's only synagogue was shut down as authorities said a man wanted in the shooting death of a Wesleyan student may now be targeting the school and Jews.
Johanna Justin-Jinich, 21, was shot several times Wednesday by a gunman wearing a wig at her job inside Broad Street Books, a popular student bookstore. Two years ago, she complained to police the suspect, 29-year-old Stephen P. Morgan, stalked and threatened her.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/...qBQOpJlU4DW7oF

[gdn]

I have no idea what they're basing the "targeting Jews" assertion on. Because she's Jewish?

[xenadanielle]

I have no idea what they're basing the "targeting Jews" assertion on. Because she's Jewish?

I think they found his diary or something.

Edit: here...maybe it's BS or maybe not.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...PxlYo&refer=us

The New York City Police Department interviewed Morgan as well as Justin-Jinich. “She declined to prosecute,” said Madelyne Galindo, an NYPD spokeswoman, in an e-mailed message.

Morgan has no known connection with Wesleyan, the Connecticut school said in a statement on its Web site.

“He expressed threats in his personal journals toward Wesleyan and/or its Jewish students,” the university statement said.

[b-ball-lunachick]

I saw that on the news this morning...another beautiful girl's life taken for no reason by some wacko.

[BronxBaumer]

A guy who has a restraining order against him shouldn't have guns.

[Mark19]

A guy who has a restraining order against him shouldn't have guns.

A guy who has a restraining order against him obviously doesn't let the law dictate how he behaves

[xenadanielle]

Turned himself in:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/ny...1&ref=nyregion

[b-ball-lunachick]

Turned himself in:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/ny...1&ref=nyregion

How odd that he would turn himself in like that but thankfully he did...

I had heard last night them say that the police had interviewed him as a witness right after the shooting...creepy.