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Denton Record-Chronicle
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Eastern Kentucky
cancels classes
because of threat
BRIEFLY
Ore. gunman killed himself
after police wounded him
ACROSS THE NATION
Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina still
on edge from floods
It could take until the week-
end for the threat of flooding to
ease in storm-tattered South
Carolina, where a senator
warned of a potential billion-dol-
lar cleanup bill, two more people
died in the floodwaters and the
flagship university sent a home
football game 700 miles away.
Rivers rose and dams bulged
as storm water from days of
heavy rains made its way to the
Atlantic Ocean, causing a second
round of flooding downstream.
Gov. Nikki Haley paid a visit
to the coast, which she said
would still be in danger for an-
other 24-48 hours.
“We’re holding our breath
and saying a prayer,” she said.
At least 19 people in South
Carolina and North Carolina
had said only that the 26-year-
old attacker killed himself af-
ter a shootout.
The detectives arrived
within minutes of the first re-
ports of gunfire at Umpqua
Community College.
Seconds later, the officers
“both felt they had a good tar-
get,” Douglas County District
Attorney Rick Wesenberg
said. Two of their bullets hit a
wall. A third struck Harper-
Mercer on the right side.
The wounded gunman “en-
tered the classroom again,
went to the front of the class-
room and shot and killed him-
self;’ Wesenberg said.
The attack was the worst
mass shooting in Oregon his-
tory. Eight students and a
teacher died. Nine others were
wounded.
President Obama plans to
travel to Roseburg on Friday to
meet with victims’ families.
Three county commission-
ers appeared at a news confer-
ence Wednesday to try to tamp
down any suggestion that
Obama was not welcome.
“Regardless of our differ-
ences with the president on
policy issues, we await the
president’s arrival and look
forward to his show of support
for a community who is griev-
ing and whose heartache is
immeasurable, especially the
families of those killed,” said
Susan Morgan, chairwoman
of the Douglas County Com-
mission, reading from a state-
ment.
By Jonathan J. Cooper
Associated Press
ROSEBURG, Ore. - The
gunman who fatally shot nine
people at an Oregon commu-
nity college last week killed
himself in front of his victims
after two police officers
wounded him, authorities said
Wednesday.
When two plainclothes de-
tectives spotted Christopher
Harper-Mercer in the door-
way of a campus building, he
fired at them, and the officers
quickly returned fire. The kill-
er then went back inside and
shot himself in a classroom
where many of his victims lay
dead and wounded, a prosecu-
tor told a news conference.
It was authorities’ most de-
tailed account yet of the gun-
man’s death. Previously, they
threat, it has become clear this
incident continues to be unset-
tling to a number of our stu-
dents, faculty and staff,” Benson
said in a campus message.
Classes also were canceled on
EKUs satellite campuses in the
region. The school has about
16,900 students.
The action comes less than a
week after a shooting at an Ore-
gon college. The shooter killed
nine people and himself.
The disruption at EKU
comes during midterm exams.
Full campus operations will re-
sume Wednesday, following the
school’s scheduled fall break on
Monday and Tuesday, Benson
said.
By Bruce Schreiner
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - East-
ern Kentucky University can-
celed classes because of an esca-
lating threat after the discovery
of graffiti that threatened to “kill
all” this week, school officials
said Wednesday.
School leaders called off clas-
ses for the rest of the week, effec-
tive midmoming Wednesday, as
police tried to track down the
source of threats that unsettled
the campus in Richmond, Ken-
tucky. The school later said its
football game against Tennessee
Tech, scheduled for tonight on
the EKU campus, instead will be
played at Georgetown College in
central Kentucky.
EKU’s public safety office
said there was no evidence of
imminent danger on campus
but reported “an escalation in
the threat, originating from so-
cial media.” Police presence
around the campus has in-
creased, the office said.
School officials did not im-
mediately identify the nature of
the social media threat. Univer-
sity spokeswoman Kristi Mid-
dleton declined additional com-
ment, citing the ongoing police
investigation.
The campus threats surfaced
in recent days. On Monday,
campus police issued a public
safety alert after menacing graf-
fiti was found in a student center
bathroom on campus. The graf-
fiti said: “Kill All By 10/8/15.”
University President Michael
Benson said Wednesday that
classes were canceled to enable
law enforcement to thoroughly
investigate the continuing threat.
He said the goal was to limit risks
while assessing the threats.
“While we are confident the
responding team of law enforce-
ment agencies has kept a watch-
ful eye over our community and
is diligently investigating the
have died in the storm, while
many survivors returned home
to discover they’d lost every-
thing.
Investigators have not yet
shared any motive for the kill-
ings.
Benson urged students, fac-
ulty and staff to ‘look out for
each other” amid the threat.
“I know a lot of people that
are actually pretty terrified by
this,” said Christopher Payton,
editor-in-chief of The Eastern
Progress, the campus newspa-
per. “I’ve been walking around
campus, and everyone is pack-
ing their bags and leaving.”
Mike Mitchell made the
hourlong drive from Mount
Sterling, Kentucky to pick up
his daughter, Irisbel, a freshman
at EKU. He said he thought
school administrators made “the
right call” in canceling classes as
the investigation continues.
“This day and time, you nev-
er know,” he said. “You have to
take threats seriously”
Mitchell said his 18-year-old
daughter was “ready to get away
for a couple of days, just due to
this situation.”
Campus police continue to
follow up on tips and interview
people as part of the investiga-
tion, EKU public safety officials
said.
— The Associated Press
Coast Guard ends search for 33 crew members
mother of crew member Ma-
riette Wright.
Robert Green, father of
LaShawn Rivera, held out hope
despite the Coast Guard deci-
sion: “Miracles do happen, and
it’s God’s way only. I’m prayerful,
hopeful and still optimistic.”
President Barack Obama
promised the “full support of the
U.S. government” as officials in-
vestigate the sinking of the cargo
ship. In a statement issued
Wednesday evening, Obama
said the families of the crew
members lost at sea deserve an-
swers, and those who work at
sea must be kept safe.
The El Faro went down in
15,000 feet ofwater east ofthe Ba-
hamas last Thursday after losing
propulsion while attempting to
outrun Joaquin along the ship’s
regular route from Jacksonville to
Puerto Rico, according to ship
owner Tote Maritime and the
Coast Guard.
By Curt Anderson
and Tony Winton
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The
Coast Guard officially ended its
search Wednesday for the miss-
ing crew members from a U.S.
cargo ship that sank off the Baha-
mas during Hurricane Joaquin.
Petty Officer Mark Barney
said the search for survivors
from the El Faro ended at 7 p.m.
Earlier Wednesday, the Coast
Guard broke the news to griev-
ing family members it was aban-
doning the search for the 33
mariners and investigators
turned their attention to finding
the vessel’s data recorder 3 miles
down at the bottom of the sea.
A search by air and sea over
tens of thousands of square miles
turned up one unidentified body
in a survival suit and a heavily
damaged lifeboat, but no sign of
survivors from the 790-foot El
Faro, which was last heard from
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Maine Maritime Academy students bow their heads Tuesday
during a vigil of hope for the missing crew members of the
U.S. container ship El Faro in Castine, Maine.
nearly a week ago as it was being
tossed around in rough seas.
By preparing to end its
search at sunset, the Coast
Guard all but confirmed family
members’ worst fears
hands were lost.
‘Any decision to suspend a
search is painful,” Coast Guard
Capt. Mark Fedor said. “They
did all they could.”
Even before the announce-
ment, hopes of finding anyone
alive were fading.
“The ship went down. And
there’s no questioning the out-
come of that. The ship has gone
down, took everybody with it.
There’s really no speculation to
be made,” said Mary Shevory,
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Authorities have been unable
to substantiate a specific threat
against a specific building, they
said.
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