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To: geode00 who wrote (227495)	4/17/2007 4:02:42 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"This was one incident that took over from the UT tower shooting as the most deadly. That was, what, 40 years ago." I was there. I'm from Austin, Texas. My buds and I had cut class in HS and were heading down to the University to leer at college girls, who we all thought were stunningly beautiful. We heard the breaking news on the car radio and headed straight for the tower. We parked and headed for the tower. First, we entered a building right across from the tower where Whitman had shot several people through the windows. We were listening to the incoming reports on a transistor radio. We peeked through some windows up at the observation deck and watched as Whitman drove off a helicopter and a light plane and shot a few more people. We'd all been up on the tower and were familiar with it. Then, we heard that Whitman had been shot. We raced over to the tower. The police were streaming in, but didn't have control yet. They had the elevators controlled though, so we raced up the interior fire stairs to the observation deck level, where we stepped out of the fire stairs to the lobby, where we saw huge pools of blood. At that point a cop saw us, and made us leave. Whitman had made some unbelievable shots from that tower. It was later found that the ex-Marine had a brain tumor that may have caused his behavior.

To: geode00 who wrote (227495)	4/17/2007 4:34:49 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sometimes crap happens to people who were just unlucky enough to be standing around. Several years ago a psychotic woman walked into my oldest daughter's office looking for a 'blue-eyed blonde who'd stolen her boyfriend'. She shot the first blue-eyed blond woman she saw in the face, instantly killing her. My daughter, also a blue-eyed blonde, was standing about 20 ft. away. The shooter only got a couple of steps toward her when a young male employee tackled her and got the gun away. Fortunately, a swat team arrived immediately. The shooter had shot and injured two security guards in a TV station on the first floor and wandered around on the second floor before climbing the stairs to the fourth floor where my daughter worked......so the police were already on it. Interestingly no one in the TV station, including the security personnel, had the presence of mind to call the offices on the other floors with a warning. In fact, the only person who acted quickly and decisively was the young male employee and it was his FIRST DAY on the job! AT&T Wireless later made him employee of the year. The whole thing was very bizarre and very sad.