An Ohio State University employee opened fire on Tuesday at a campus maintenance building, killing a co-worker and wounding another, the university said. A suspect also was wounded and was taken into custody, officials said.
University Police Chief Paul Denton, told a news conference that the two wounded workers were taken to Ohio State University Medical Centre, where one was in a critical condition and the other was in stable condition. It was not immediately clear which was the suspected shooter. The third employee was pronounced dead at the scene.
Heavily armed campus officers searched buildings in the area, including a university power plant, and the person who police believe was responsible for the shooting was taken into custody, Mr. Denton said.
Police did not release any names. Investigators were trying to determine the suspect’s motive, Mr. Denton said.
Ohio State, the nation’s largest university, said no students were hurt and that classes would be held as scheduled.
The maintenance building where the shooting occurred is just east of Ohio Stadium, where the school’s football team plays.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Man Shoots 2 Officers at Pentagon Entrance
A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and fatally wounded, officials said.
Pentagon police officers told CBS News correspondent David Martin that two Pentagon police officers were wounded before the shooter was himself shot - once in the head and once in the shoulder.
The medical examiner's office said hours later that the suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, had died of his injuries.
Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as John Patrick Bedell, 36.
Police say he walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the massively fortified Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.
The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon - the U.S. capital's ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 - came four months after a deadly attack on the Army's Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings. In the immediate aftermath Thursday, investigators did not think terrorism was involved but were not ruling that out and did not discuss possible motives.
President Obama was "closely following the case" and getting updates from the FBI through his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.
Police said they were speaking with a second man, who might have accompanied the shooter, and were running his name through databases.
The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building, a five-sided northern Virginia colossus across the Potomac River from Washington. Since a redesign following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.
After the attack, all Pentagon entrances were secured, then all were reopened except one from the subway, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. He said the subway entrance was likely to remain closed overnight at least.
Keevill said the gunman gave no clue to the officers at the checkpoint about what he was going to do.
"There was no distress," he said. "When he reached into his pocket, they assumed he was going to get a pass and he came up with a gun."
"He wasn't pretending to be anyone. He was wearing a coat and walked up and just started shooting."
Keevill added: "We have layers of security and it worked. He never got inside the building to hurt anyone."
A Pentagon official working late in the building said people inside first heard of the shooting on television. They were later told the building was locked down and to stay in place.
Then at around 7:30 p.m. local time, they heard an announcement on the public address system that they could leave through Corridor 3 - one widely used to get access to one of the parking lots.
"We really don't know anything, just that we can leave now through that corridor," one official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak about the incident.
Pentagon police officers told CBS News correspondent David Martin that two Pentagon police officers were wounded before the shooter was himself shot - once in the head and once in the shoulder.
The medical examiner's office said hours later that the suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, had died of his injuries.
Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as John Patrick Bedell, 36.
Police say he walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the massively fortified Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.
The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon - the U.S. capital's ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 - came four months after a deadly attack on the Army's Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings. In the immediate aftermath Thursday, investigators did not think terrorism was involved but were not ruling that out and did not discuss possible motives.
President Obama was "closely following the case" and getting updates from the FBI through his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.
Police said they were speaking with a second man, who might have accompanied the shooter, and were running his name through databases.
The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building, a five-sided northern Virginia colossus across the Potomac River from Washington. Since a redesign following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.
After the attack, all Pentagon entrances were secured, then all were reopened except one from the subway, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. He said the subway entrance was likely to remain closed overnight at least.
Keevill said the gunman gave no clue to the officers at the checkpoint about what he was going to do.
"There was no distress," he said. "When he reached into his pocket, they assumed he was going to get a pass and he came up with a gun."
"He wasn't pretending to be anyone. He was wearing a coat and walked up and just started shooting."
Keevill added: "We have layers of security and it worked. He never got inside the building to hurt anyone."
A Pentagon official working late in the building said people inside first heard of the shooting on television. They were later told the building was locked down and to stay in place.
Then at around 7:30 p.m. local time, they heard an announcement on the public address system that they could leave through Corridor 3 - one widely used to get access to one of the parking lots.
"We really don't know anything, just that we can leave now through that corridor," one official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak about the incident.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
T men stall Balayya’s film shoot
A group of Telangana activists disrupted the shooting of actor Balakrishna’s film at Kesara in Ranga Reddy district on Monday.
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti activists raised “Jai Telangana” slogans and disrupted the shooting at about 11 am at Rampallidayara village. The movie titled Simha, featuring Balakrishna and Sneha Ullal, is slated to hit the screens next month. Both Balakrishna and Sneha were not present on the sets when the activists raised slogans.
The TRS activists said they will not allow Balakrishna to shoot in the Telangana region if he did not pledge his support to the demand for Telangana state.
“After the shooting of the film had ended, we needed a village backdrop for some scenes. Hence, we had chosen a nearby village. However, the TRS workers came here and began shouting slogans. We had to call off the shooting,” said Mr Boyapati Sreenu, the director.
Meanwhile, police said that the film unit did not take permission for the shooting. “The film unit did not inform us or take our permission. However, when we got to know of the incident, we got there and dispersed the activists,” said Mr Bhadreshwar, inspector.
