Shooting on campus

[randy_byers]

There was a shooting on campus earlier this morning. Looks like a guy was stalking his ex-girlfriend who had gone through a number of maneuvers, both logistical and legal, to keep him away from her. She was, rightly, afraid for her life. He killed her and then killed himself. Why don't these asshole losers just kill themselves? It makes me sick to my stomach.

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[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I hadn't yet seen anybody say it was his ex-girlfriend. The PI says she had sought a restraining order that had somehow not been served. What a horror.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

The PI is now reporting more detail, which backs up what I'd seen on the Stranger's blog:

A woman shot to death on the University of Washington campus Monday morning had lived in mortal fear for weeks about a man who was stalking her, her friends and co-workers said.

Her attacker apparently killed himself.after killing the woman The woman had changed her telephone numbers, moved a couple of times and e-mailed to co-workers in the UW's real estate program a description and photograph of her stalker, said Lance Nguyen, a graduate student in urban planning who worked with the woman. The 26-year-old woman worked in the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the UW.

"She was visually shaken and scared,' said Nguyen. He said the man had threatened to harm her and her family.

The woman had, at times, worked from home because she was afraid to come to work. She also had considered riding her bike to work so she could vary her route, Nguyen said.

George Rolfe, a real estate professor, said the woman had recently sought a restraining order against the man but that for some reason the order couldn't be served on him.

It looks as though the only place he could find her was at work.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Times was picking up details even before the PI. It's always a slow trickle of information/disinformation when you're this close to breaking news. Actually, it's always like that, but when it affects you, it's really irksome to get it drip by drip.