When seconds count, the police are minutes away (Part Deux)

[Little-Acorn]

This time the gunman (gunwoman?) decided not to pull the trigger, which was awfully nice of her. If she had started pulling it, how many could she have killed and injured in the seven minutes it took the police to get there?

And if any law-abiding person in the building had been armed, how many would the gunperson have killed before getting shot by the law-abider?

One wonders if there had been anyone armed in the building. If anyone was, and was aware of what was going on, they showed commendable restraint in not shooting at this nutcase woman as long as she wasn't shooting.

But I thought that a civilian carrying a gun for personal defense, was turned into a wild-eyed fanatic blazing away at anything that moved?

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342155,00.html

Armed Woman Apprehended in University of Louisville Hostage Situation

Thursday, March 27, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A woman who walked into a health services building with a weapon at the University of Louisville has been disarmed.

School spokeswoman Cindy Hess says university police arrived seven minutes after receiving a call and found a hostage situation. Hess says she doesn't know how many people were taken hostage, but there were no injuries.

Hess says the woman was disarmed shortly after police arrived.

An initial posting on the school's Web site described the person as a student, but Hess said she couldn't confirm that.

The university sent safety alerts to student phones, cell phones and posted one on its Web site. Hess says the campus was not locked down.

[hjmick]

Seven minutes for university police to arrive? Aren't they on campus? Now, I realize that a university can be large, but seven minutes? That strikes me as a tad long for a response time for a woman with a gun call.

Perhaps they need to put a donut shop on campus. <j/k>

[Little-Acorn]

This time the gunman (gunwoman?) decided not to pull the trigger, which was awfully nice of her. If she had started pulling it, how many could she have killed and injured in the seven minutes it took the police to get there?

Apparently she did pull the trigger. Just not in that particular building. No one there could have know what she had done a little earlier. Too bad.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342155,00.html

Woman Involved in University of Louisville Hostage Situation Charged With Killing Her 2 Children

Thursday, March 27, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police checking on two children after their mother allegedly brandished a gun on a university campus found them dead Thursday, and charged the woman with two counts of murder.

Louisville police Officer Phil Russell said Gail Lynn Coontz, 37, was charged with killing son Greg, 14, and daughter Nikki, 10.

The children's bodies were found after University of Louisville police investigated a campus hostage situation involving a female student armed with a gun.

No one was harmed on the campus but Louisville officers were asked by university police to check on the children, and found them dead at the home about 10 miles south of the campus.

Russell said the children suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Louisville homicide detective Lt. Barry Wilkerson said the armed student was the same woman charged in the deaths.

University police arrived at the health services building at 8:39 a.m. and found a hostage situation, university spokeswoman Cindy Hess said. The woman was disarmed shortly after 9 a.m.

University police Maj. Kenny Brown said the woman was charged with one count of terroristic threatening. He said the woman handed over the handgun to a counselor.

"When we were able to open the door and go in, the student and the counselor were both sitting on the couch," Brown said.

University President James Ramsey said she was taken from the university to a hospital psychiatric ward, while police said they expected her to be transferred later to jail.

The school sent safety alerts to student phones, cell phones and posted one on its Web site. Hess says the campus was not locked down.

University spokesman John Drees said Coontz has been a student in the college of arts and sciences at the university since the fall of 2006 and had not yet declared a major

[hjmick]

Shit.

[diuretic]

Those poor kids. You have to think she's mentally ill.

No comment on any other aspect of the events here, it's just too sad for words.