Five minutes later, the school posted an alert on its website. Get to a safe area and take precautions until given the all clear. Avoid the King Commons and all buildings in that vicinity," it said. Until the spring of , he had been enrolled as a graduate sociology student at NIU.
School officials recalled him as "respected State police said he had obtained a permit to purchase a weapon in January Just last December, the NIU campus was shut down after someone wrote on a dormitory bathroom wall that black students would be killed. Just last week, the university received another threat. In an interview yesterday, Grady, the police chief, declined to specify the nature of that threat, and said it was dismissed for a lack of credibility.
Despite campus officials' pronouncements that they have taken significant security steps, for now, it seems little can soothe the uneasiness here. Are there security lessons to be learned? The suddenness of the attack meant there was little time for campus authorities to interdict Kazmierczak.
So the lessons may be fuzzy at most. One piece of college folklore, however, may no longer apply. After last spring's Virginia Tech shootings, students in many schools figured it'd be safer to sit in the back of the class because of the belief that most of those killed in that rampage had been at the front of their classes. No more. Caspillan is trying to forget those six minutes in the lecture room. But they seem to be an eternity. Kazmierczak keeps appearing in her head, she says. The scene, it just kept going on and on," she says of the first night after.
Says Santos, "We're still just so scared. Send to Kindle. She had recently gotten a job at the Latino Resource Center on campus and looked forward to mentoring Hispanic freshmen through the center. But to her family, she was always the grinning little girl who liked to dance and listen to music. An honor student, she ran track, worked on the yearbook staff and was a member of the modern dance team. Through Cati, the Garcia family had been embraced in the United States.
Her yearbook photo was featured on a page headlined "friendship. Ryanne Mace, an only child, was an ace student who knitted baby jackets and blankets for fun. She was a standout member of its French Club, which packed her off to college with a small scholarship, said high school Principal Lynn McCarthy. Around noon on the day of the shooting, Dan Parmenter phoned his mother, Linda Greer, to wish her a happy Valentine's Day.
A few hours later, she received a second, horrific phone call. This one informed her that her son, a hulking rugby player, had been killed in a shooting rampage on the DeKalb campus. Parmenter, who grew up in Elmhurst, didn't seem destined to become a bruising football and rugby player. He attended York High School in Elmhurst, where he played football. But it was the end of his gridiron career that sticks in Greer's mind.
Dan Parmenter was a strong Christian believer who attended a church program for toddlers and continued going to church throughout his life, Bob Greer said. He is a young man that, you don't have to look back on his life with regret. You can look back with a lot of fulfillment and joy, because he was such a nice person.
Skip to content. At the men's p. Saturday night at 8 p. Wednesday at 3 p. Bells will be tolled at p. According to the web page the installation includes items from the university's archives "that show the campus, community and national response to the tragedy, as well as examining how the campus has rebuilt and recovered since that day.
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