3 Dead In Classroom Shooting Spree

Woman Guns Down 2 Female Students At Louisiana Technical College, Then Takes Her Own Life

(CBS/AP)  A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students in a classroom at a vocational college Friday, then killed herself, police said.

The women apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Baton Rouge Sgt. Don Kelly said. About 20 people were in the room at the time, he said.

Officers ran into the building within four minutes of the first 911 call, which came at 8:36 a.m., Kelly said.

"There was mass pandemonium, people running," he said. "One officer - the first into the classroom - told me he could still smell gunpowder."

One of the victims, 27-year-old Taneisha Butler, was a mother of three. Her husband, who arrived on the scene, told Anna Adair of CBS affiliate WAFB that his wife was a nursing student. The couple's three children are 4, 9, and 12 years old.

The school - one of two LTC campuses in Baton Rouge and dozens around the state - offers classes in a dozen subjects including early childhood education, practical nursing, drafting and welding.

School administrators and campus police did not immediately return calls or e-mails.

Louis Davis, who said he was taking an automobile technology class Friday morning, said a teacher told the students to stay in class because there had been an incident, without adding details. Students had to stay in their classrooms for about two hours and were briefly questioned by police before being released for the day, he said.

Classes were canceled through Tuesday, and tentatively scheduled to resume Wednesday, said Jim Henderson, vice president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.

"This is a tragic day for Baton Rouge, when you come to a learning institution ... and become the victim of a violent crime," Mayor Kip Holden said at the scene.

Meanwhile, in Greenville, S.C., a student was shot in the leg at Greenville Technical College, but told police it was a self-inflicted accident, a campus official said. The wound was not life-threatening, said Brad Majors, the college marketing director. Majors said campus police and city police would continue to investigate.

[gunownerdan]

...if guns are banned and you obey the law!~
Posted by schoollord

Ban guns all you want, it doesn''t change the fact that criminal don''t obey gun ban laws.

[guadalcanal3]

And...if it''s the "person"..as you put it..."holding the gun...."that does the killing"...then don''t give them a gun to hold....GET IT????????

[guadalcanal3]

berniepeders...S''cuse me sir...but that is just about the dumbest thing I ever heard!...I would much rather take my chances with somebody coming at me with a knife or a bat or something that they have to get close to me to do...especially if they come at me with their bare hands...but even if you are the blackbelt champion of the world in martial arts...you simply have a zero chance...(YOU CAN BE KILLED FROM A 1,000 YARDS...OR MORE)unless of course you also have a gun...So in you opinion I guess we should arm ourselves to the teeth...You certainly have...BRILLIANT!

[Krazcarl]

Nuts....Good point the attempted double homicid I was in {took one to the chest my friend took 2 one to the shoulder one to the head} toke a few minutes and I would have appriciated your hel {we survived barely}.

[irock350]

Why did this turn into a gun debate? A guns is just a means to an end, only 3 people are dead, this crime wasn''t random, it was deliberate. The shooter obviously has serious mental health issues. Instead of debating how guns are bad, why don''t we debate how severe mental heath issues can be treated and stoped.

[berniepeders]

"Guns don''''t kill people...people kill people"...The answer is obvious: IF PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE...THEN...DON''''T GIVE PEOPLE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Guadalcanal3 at 04:22 PM : Feb 08, 2008

You just don''t get it--I''ve owned several guns most of my life (55 years) and I''ve never killed anyone. If you take away the guns, and someone wants to kill someone else, they will find a way, whether it''s a knife, a bat, a rock, or just choking them with their bare hands. It is NOT the gun doing the killing, it''s the person HOLDING the gun! Get it?

[Krazcarl]

You know this is really hilarious some of you folks think that if we outlaw guns the problem will go away before the advent of guns there was muder on a regular basis with no lull through recorded history, It makes it a little easier but by no means impossible just more brutile or coniving poisen for an example. What we really needs is free mental health clinis to help lost souls and a strict death penalty for thise that choose the way of the sword. If we resorted to public handing the proplem would be cut in half over night but unfortunitly for some folks going to prisom and turning querr is OK for them. You want to stop this trasc behavior your going to have to string them up in the public square for all to see counseling has not worked or will it. Warehousing has been a catastrophic failure. To get rid of the diesease you have to cut it out, A victum of violent crime.

[nothappyatall]

"School administrators and campus police did not return calls or e-mails. "

Why should, or would they?

[cyberdjs4]

So...
Is prayer and worship working yet?

It''s going to take A LOT more than wishful thinking to fix this mess we''ve all created.

[realtalk5950]

It''s truly a sick world we live in...."violence to stop violence"...

[realtalk5950]

You did not answer the question: If Bush decided to draft or suspend several rights so he could mine for information directly in your home (and not just on your computer or phone) would it be okay with you? and why not? That is what it will take to ensure no guns--don''''t assume laws you apply for your own point of view cannot ever be used in another way against you, by others--that is the ultimate naivety --failing to consider ramifications.


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Posted by b-easy63 at 03:22 PM : Feb 08, 2008

The gov can mine for info on me all they want. I got nothing to hide. They''re probably doing it already anyway. Look, im just saying you can''t expect EVERYTHING that applied in the 1770s to apply to today. And for the purpose of this discussion im talking about guns.

[marymcq]

I already posted something, but then I started to think about something else. Maybe we should treat one another a little better, have more patience, don''t judge so quickly, etc., a lot of these crimes it seems is some person who felt he/she was done wrong, or their heart was broken, maybe someone was teased or taunted relentlessly, I''m not saying those are good reasons to go on a killing spree, but it seems those are their reasons. I guess what I''m trying to say is this simple Be nice.

[guadalcanal3]

"Guns don''t kill people...people kill people"...The answer is obvious: IF PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE...THEN...DON''T GIVE PEOPLE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

[marymcq]

I''m not claiming to know the answer''s to all these problems but I do know outlawing guns is not the answer because then the only people who have guns will be the outlaws and then law abiding citizens will have nothing to defend themselves with. These are dangerous crazy times, man, God must be very angry with us. I can hear him now saying "DON''T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE" ok, that was me trying to add a little humor in a very sad story.

[displeased]

There are many other explanations about how many of the gun statistics are engineered to evoke emotions towards a certain political goal. In order to really understand the issues and make truly informed decisions on issues, one must really utilize critical thinking prior to using someone else''''s data arbitrarily.
Posted by Kingiii64

Well said!

[easy21rider]

How can anyone in their right minds believe that more gun control is the answer to stopping these atrocities? If guns were completely outlawed as some would seem to hope, can we honestly believe that the weapon of choice would not change? Perhaps a short trip to the local hardware store, garden center, or gas station for some ready ingredients for poisons or bombs or a nice combination of the two. Have we forgotten how easy McVeigh had done Oklahoma City? Would the new weapon of choice be even more indiscriminate and all encompassing than a gun? Until some of these bleeding heart liberals pluck their collective heads from their rumps and focus on the true causes of society%u2019s ills nothing is going to change. Only the weapon of choice. Perhaps we should be very careful of what we ask for.

[aeasus]

It is easy to dismantle parts of our economy, but what can be done in a few years, can take generations to put right

Posted by b-easy63
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Simple really:
energy independence..............= 1 billion a day
foriegn policy ..................= 3 billion a day
lost manufacturing jobs .........= 6 billion a day
total............................=10 billion a day

we spend around a billion a day on foriegn oil,and 3 billion a day on foriegn policy,we''ve lost 6 billion a day to foriegn trade. Hydrogen is a quick and easy answer to oil,at least for now. Rethink foriegn policy. Make foriegn manufacturers comply with US workers rights,humanitarian rights,safety laws,and product inspections. Basically the same Americans would expect at work. Foriegn manufacturing would lose it''s sweetness. 10 billion more a day staying inside our borders will help make this country what it should be!

[b-easy63]

whatever happened to realtalk--I thought he/she wanted dialog? Still digesting rebuttals? LOL

[b-easy63]

people who advocate government gun control or other Big government initiatives always assume that what they want can only be used the way they envision, and that only people who love and care about them and are noble will be in power--for all you liberal anti-gun people--with what MUST come to make true control effective, would you be willing to live with that kind of power in government hands if someone like Gonzales, or Cheney or Bush had that ability? And do you really imagine that Congress can provide checks and balances over such a rogue government? Did they provide it for the past 7 years? What ways, could the power you so freely give up to the government be used to someone intent on consolidating or challenging our idea of democracy? THAT is what you need to entertain, when you bleat your desire for adbicating all power to resist to ANY government. Or do you think you will be resisting with your computer?

[b-easy63]

hat''''s absurd. People''''s right to speak has nothing to do with killing. Last time I checked, you can''''t kill someone by "talking" them to death. And I never said EVERYTHING in the constitution should not be honored today. But I feel that some of the things written, reflect the era of when they were written. Women could not even vote for another 150 years after it was written for christ''''s sake..

Posted by RealTalk5950 at 02:54 PM : Feb 08, 2008


Well. YOu certainly won''t find Bush, Cheney or Gonzales complaining about your point of view--it is their sentiments exactly--also. lmao