Monday August 28 5:24 PM ET
2 Die in Arkansas Campus Shooting
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Two people were shot to death Monday at
the University of Arkansas in an apparent murder-suicide on the first day of
the fall semester.
``We believe the two persons killed are a faculty member and a graduate
student, but that remains to be confirmed,'' Chancellor John White said in a
statement.
Two university police officers were sent to Kimpel Hall after a 911 call about
noon. They spoke briefly with a man behind the locked door of a faculty
office before hearing a gunshot, Capt. Brad Bruns said. It wasn't immediately
clear who made the emergency call or what had prompted it. Both bodies
were found inside the office.
White didn't indicate what department the victims were believed to be from,
but the section of the building houses offices for the English department.
Students and faculty were evacuated from the building after the shooting, and
classes there and in an adjacent building were canceled
``We're trying to deal with a situation that seems horrific and trying to control
everything we can and bring this to resolution as quickly as possible,''
university spokesman Roger Williams said.
Kimpel Hall houses faculty in a number of departments - communication,
drama, English, foreign languages and journalism, Williams said.
Journalism department chairwoman Patsy Watkins many of the 50- to
60-student classrooms on the floor would have been filled at the time.
Students left the building in an orderly fashion, saying they had been told to
leave, Watkins said. ``All we've been told is that shots have been fired,'' she
said.
Kimpel Hall is shaped like a T, with classrooms along the long end of the T
and offices across the crossbar.
The 15,000-student campus is in the northwest part of the state. Both
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton taught law there in the
mid-1970s.
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On the Web: http://www.uark.edu
2 Die in Arkansas Campus Shooting
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Two people were shot to death Monday at
the University of Arkansas in an apparent murder-suicide on the first day of
the fall semester.
``We believe the two persons killed are a faculty member and a graduate
student, but that remains to be confirmed,'' Chancellor John White said in a
statement.
Two university police officers were sent to Kimpel Hall after a 911 call about
noon. They spoke briefly with a man behind the locked door of a faculty
office before hearing a gunshot, Capt. Brad Bruns said. It wasn't immediately
clear who made the emergency call or what had prompted it. Both bodies
were found inside the office.
White didn't indicate what department the victims were believed to be from,
but the section of the building houses offices for the English department.
Students and faculty were evacuated from the building after the shooting, and
classes there and in an adjacent building were canceled
``We're trying to deal with a situation that seems horrific and trying to control
everything we can and bring this to resolution as quickly as possible,''
university spokesman Roger Williams said.
Kimpel Hall houses faculty in a number of departments - communication,
drama, English, foreign languages and journalism, Williams said.
Journalism department chairwoman Patsy Watkins many of the 50- to
60-student classrooms on the floor would have been filled at the time.
Students left the building in an orderly fashion, saying they had been told to
leave, Watkins said. ``All we've been told is that shots have been fired,'' she
said.
Kimpel Hall is shaped like a T, with classrooms along the long end of the T
and offices across the crossbar.
The 15,000-student campus is in the northwest part of the state. Both
President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton taught law there in the
mid-1970s.
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On the Web: http://www.uark.edu