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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 03:49 PM Feb 2020

2 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce residence hall

2 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce residence hall

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-hurt-shooting-texas-university-commerce-residence-hall/story

Two people are dead and a third person is injured in a shooting at a residence hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce on Monday, authorities said.

The surviving victim was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, the university police department said.

The shooting took place at the Pride Rock residence hall, which houses freshmen, according to the school website. University police said it has stationed officers across the campus.

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2 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce residence hall (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2020 OP
Thoughts and prayers time Botany Feb 2020 #1
shooting pamdb Feb 2020 #2
VERY glad my daughter got out of Texas and back to Illinois! davsand Feb 2020 #3
This had fuck-all to do with TX law- the shooter was a twice-convicted armed robber: friendly_iconoclast Feb 2020 #7
Do you always paint with such a broad brush MagickMuffin Feb 2020 #4
No, not everyone in Texas wanted this gratuitous Feb 2020 #5
The Texaphobia is misplaced- Smith is a twice-convicted robber friendly_iconoclast Feb 2020 #6

pamdb

(1,331 posts)
2. shooting
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 04:01 PM
Feb 2020

You guys in texas wanted to be able to have concealed carry on your colleges and universities, you reap what you sew.

davsand

(13,420 posts)
3. VERY glad my daughter got out of Texas and back to Illinois!
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 04:16 PM
Feb 2020

My kid opted for A & M for college. She changed majors and decided to get back closer to home just as the legislature there enacted that dumbass law forcing colleges to accept armed students. I find it ironic that Texas is OK FINE with guns but you can't buy a freaking vibrator there. (WTF is wong with those people?)

I have a lot of appreciation for the people we met there and for how kind they all were to us whenever we visited. Not so much for that bullshit gun humper attitude and the hate for women.

My sympathies to all who are grieving after today.


Laura

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
7. This had fuck-all to do with TX law- the shooter was a twice-convicted armed robber:
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:16 PM
Feb 2020
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/02/04/police-dorm-residents-call-led-to-discovery-of-sisters-fatal-shooting-at-texas-am-university-commerce/

In 2016, Smith was charged with two counts of aggravated robbery. Police wrote in an affidavit that he conspired with three other people to steal nearly $20,000 from two of his friends, including by making one of them withdraw cash from an ATM at gunpoint. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of theft from a person in both cases and was sentenced to five years of probation.

Court records say he violated the terms of his probation in 2018. Authorities said he and three other men committed an armed robbery at a Duncanville Subway, then fled from an officer who tried to arrest them.

Court records show he was sentenced to 120 days in the Dallas County jail for violating probation. He also was sentenced to five years of probation for the robbery and fleeing police.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. No, not everyone in Texas wanted this
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 05:00 PM
Feb 2020

But certainly not enough Texans didn't want this to outnumber and outvote those who did. So what are they going to do now? Shake their heads in sorrow? Mouth further meaningless platitudes about thoughts and prayers? Or get a smidgen more active to try to make their position the position of a majority of Texans?

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
6. The Texaphobia is misplaced- Smith is a twice-convicted robber
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:12 PM
Feb 2020
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/02/04/police-dorm-residents-call-led-to-discovery-of-sisters-fatal-shooting-at-texas-am-university-commerce/


In 2016, Smith was charged with two counts of aggravated robbery. Police wrote in an affidavit that he conspired with three other people to steal nearly $20,000 from two of his friends, including by making one of them withdraw cash from an ATM at gunpoint. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of theft from a person in both cases and was sentenced to five years of probation.

Court records say he violated the terms of his probation in 2018. Authorities said he and three other men committed an armed robbery at a Duncanville Subway, then fled from an officer who tried to arrest them.

Court records show he was sentenced to 120 days in the Dallas County jail for violating probation. He also was sentenced to five years of probation for the robbery and fleeing police.
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