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最新美国传媒报道,开枪的是所学校的一名生物系女教授,她申请终身职位,但在当天下午生物系会议上获悉申请被拒后开枪。
美国阿拉巴马大学12日发生“教授枪击案”。一名女性教授开枪行凶,打死另外三名教授,并且重伤其他两名教授。事件发生后,当地警方迅速出动,很快就将枪手缉拿归案。据悉,没有学生在本次事件中受伤,只有一名学校工作人员被流弹击伤。
当地媒体报道,本次枪击事件发生在阿拉巴马大学生物系的会议室内。枪击事件发生后,校方关闭了整个校园,并且建议学生们回家“休息”。一周前,这座大学城还发生了一起枪击事件,当时,一名中学生在学校走廊内开枪打死了自己年仅14岁的同学。
目前,阿拉巴马大学发言人尚未透露死难者和凶手的确切身份。
Prof. in custody in fatal shooting on Ala. campus
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Authorities say a woman opened fire during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus, killing three biology professors and injuring three other school employees.
University spokesman Ray Garner said the shooter was caught outside the building without incident, and no students were harmed in the shooting Friday.
Several students identified the woman who was being taken into custody as Amy Bishop, an instructor and researcher at the university. She was taken Friday night in handcuffs from a police precinct to the county jail and could be heard saying, "It didn't happen. There's no way .... they are still alive."
Local media also named the biology professor as the suspected shooter, though Garner said he could not identify her.
Police said no charges had been filed and they were interviewing the woman suspect and a man identified as "a person of interest."
Garner said the three killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and two other faculty members, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson.
Two others are in critical condition, and a third who was wounded was upgraded to fair condition. The injured were identified as department members Luis Cruz-Vera and Joseph Leahy and staffer Stephanie Monticello. Their specific conditions were not released.
Sammie Lee Davis said his wife, Maria Ragland Davis, was a researcher who had tenure at the university.
In a brief phone interview, he said he was told his wife was at a meeting to discuss the tenure status of another faculty member who got angry and started shooting.
He said his wife had mentioned the shooter before, describing the woman as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was."
Nick Lawton, the son of a biology professor at the school, said his father was not among the victims, but he did not know much more.
Lawton, 25, was exercising when a friend phoned him to tell him about the shooting. He called his father, Robert Lawton, and found out that he was not hurt, then he let rest of his family know.
"All I know is that my father is OK," Nick Lawton told The Associated Press.
Sophomore Erin Johnson told The Huntsville Times a biology faculty meeting was under way when she heard screams coming from a conference room.
University police secured the building and students were cleared from it. There was still a heavy police presence on campus Friday night, with police tape cordoning off the main entrance to the university.
The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line. The university is known for its scientific and engineering programs and often works closely with NASA.
The space agency has a research center on the school's campus, where many scientists and engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center perform Earth and space science research and development.
The university posted a message on its Web site Friday afternoon telling students the campus was closed Friday night and all students were encouraged to go home. Counselors were available to speak with students.
It's the second shooting in a week on an area campus. Last Friday, a 14-year-old student was killed in a middle school hallway in nearby Madison, allegedly by a fellow student.
"This town is unaccustomed to shootings and multiple deaths," Garner said.
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Associated Press Writers Phillip Rawls and Desiree Hunter in Montgomery, Ala., and Jacob Jordan and Daniel Yee in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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