Monday, February 6, 2012
University of Idaho Shots Fired Near U of I Campus
Posted by George Prentice on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Moscow police are investigating a shooting near the campus of the University of Idaho. According to the U of I, no one was injured when the shot was fired at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 into the Targee Fine Arts residence hall that sits on the edge of the campus.
According to a statement from the university, law enforcement "found no evidence of a continuing threat." An initial investigation by the Moscow Police Department suggests that the shot may have been fired from Blake Avenue. Residents told law enforcement that a white SUV was spotted near the scene of the shooting.
The U of I campus was rocked in August 2011 when 22-year-old grad student Kathryn Benoit was shot and killed at her off-campus residence by former U of I professor Ernesto Bustamante, who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.
In a Jan. 25 interview Joe Stegner, the university's new Boise-based lobbyist, told Boise Weekly that the U of I "has made safety the highest priority possible."
"There's a heightened awareness that campuses play on safety," said Stegner. "We have efforts that go above and beyond the safety that you would normally see in the general population."
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As the price of an education goes up the safety of it goes down. I think any one using a fire arm or any other type of instrument ( knife, rock, brick or even chemicals like gas ;etc.) in a crime where there victims are put in harms way or treatened, injured or terrified, should be dubbed a terrorist attack and if convicted, be put in prison minimum fifteen years manditory. This will save lives in so many ways and criminals will think twice before they do something stupid. Anyway, it can't hurt now can it?
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