read #36


another update from the second day:
the guy has been found dead in a field close to the uni this morning. so far the police hasn't released any details about his death or when and how he left/escaped from uni. a press conference was announced for today afternoon.

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more and more details got known and released, he must have been one of the students in a friend's class at uni, studying chemistry until early this year (canceled it). he's aged 20 and shot both his parents and his grandmother this morning and then went to uni to get potassium cyanide. His car was found on the parking, containing a last letter in which he admits the murders on his family members and he announces his suicide. however the police was not able to find him yet, neither alive nor his corpse. he's still on the run and being traced by the police, possibly hiding in the university.

http://www.swr.de/nachrichten/bw/-/id=1622/ni...index.html (german)

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Today I went to uni at 8am for seminar as every week, which lasts 2 hours, followed by 2 hours break till next seminars/lectures start. The pc pool is quite boring and has bad air so I decided to chill outside in the courtyard (our uni is build in huge crosses which have open courtyards in between). All the broken glasses from last uni party got me slightly raged as I was taking off shoes but ye whatever. I noticed soon that I forgot some materials I could have read in the break so I was going to listen to some music but first call a friend for some stuff this afternoon.
I noticed he was sitting in the bus when I called him, and he immediately asked me where I am (he's in my class at uni). I said at uni as usual (he's missing lots of lectures lately) and he responded that the uni was currently being closed by the police and busses are canceled and stuff. I expected a boring joke but he said he wasn't kidding and now I noticed that the noise from the background was not due to some building lot (it's a uni afterall..) but from a police helicopter floating above the uni. My friend told me someone would have entered the uni armed and was trying some kind of robbery or amok run. I quickly called another friend who was also outside and about to sleep (she wasn't feeling that good) and then made my way out.
The police was acting really calm and slowly, didn't even tell us what was happening or whether we had to leave. At the entry door they then told me that once you go outside you can't go in anymore, and as I was already one step outside they told me and the people around to leave behind some line the police had put. Five minutes later we were told to go back even further so we wouldn't get hurt during a fire exchange. That was quite an upset as they still didn't even tell people inside to leavve the building, nor did they really put pressure on us to do what they just asked for. More and more police cars were coming, firearms and some special forces joined them soon. Some minutes later they closed the door and wouldn't let anyone get outside anymore (so far you could stay in or leave but not get into the building again), and the special forces sneaked around all the balconies and checked rooms all over the uni.
We got pushed back even further and told that they were looking for an armed person, but not much details were told to us students. Slowly more and more people came out of the uni and more and more cops arrived with their cars. We later left for some seminar in an extern building a few hundred meters away and when we came back 2 hours later we expected the situation to be cleared.
However the police still kept everyone away from the uni building and we heard rumours that the armed person was now kidnapping someone. As the next lectures would most likely not take place we decided to walk to the next bus stop available and try to get home (the uni is outside on a hill). Just when I came home and turn on the radio a local broadcasting station reported that someone tried to extort some chemicals from our laboratories, and apparently succeeded. He then returned home to his parents' house and shot both his parents and his grandmother. So far nothing else went public, the police is going to do a press conference later today.

scary shit tbh, if that guy had planned to go and kill random people he could have shot lots of students without anyone even noticing it early enough. you just sit outside and chill as every monday, and suddenly everything around you is fucked up. :|