"The campus did not fully grieve before trying to return to normal."ĭuring the ceremony, a previously erected memorial was rededicated and the campus clock was stopped at 11:48 a.m., the time the attack began. "Survivors did not receive the support they needed," Fenves said. NPR's John Burnett reports for our Newscast Desk that it was the deadliest university shooting until Virginia Tech in 2007, when a college senior killed 32 people.Ĭiting a changed temperament in handling tragedy, Fenves called the memorial "long overdue." He killed people both on campus and elsewhere that day. Try Northfield, Minnesota, 7 September 1876 when the James Gang was shot to pieces during a botched bank robbery. Or how about the unique response of private citizens to Whitman shooting up the town. In an early afternoon ceremony, Gregory Fenves, the university's president, dedicated a granite monument containing the names of 17 people killed by Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old student and former Marine, who opened fire from the school's clocktower on Aug. Whitman was neither the first nor the worst school mass murderer in American history. The University of Texas dedicated a memorial to victims of a sniper-style attack there 50 years ago on the same day concealed-carry of handguns became legal at Texas public universities. The law went into effect 50 years to the day of the massacre. 1, 1966, University of Texas shootings which left 14 dead. Proponents of a law allowing concealed-carry handguns at Texas state universities say it could prevent incidents similar to the Aug.
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