BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 8, 2008
Two Days Of Deadly Gun Violence Nationwide
Apparent Murder-Suicide At La. College Is Latest Of Four Incidents, Leaving 15 Dead
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Play CBS Video Video 6 Dead In Council Rampage A lone gunman opened fire on a city council meeting near St. Louis Mo. When the rampage was over, six were dead, including the gunman. Cynthia Bowers reports.
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Video Gunman Had A Grudge The gunman who killed 5 people in Kirkwood, Mo. City Hall before being killed by a cop had been involved in a dispute with the city council. Jennifer Miller reports.
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Video Six Dead In Council Shooting "CBS News RAW": Six people, including two police officers, died after a lone gunman opened fire on a city council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo. Charles Lee Thornton was then shot and killed by police.
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Jean Gutchewsky places flowers outside Kirkwood City Hall , Feb. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Undated photo of Michael Layne, who charged into his estranged wife Christi Layne's fifth-grade classroom Feb. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Portsmouth Police Dept)
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Scene of siege that ended in the deaths of a SWAT officer and four members of a family on Feb. 7, 2008. (CBS)
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Elizabeth Reilman, left, hugs Louisiana Technical College staff member Buffy Brinkley after Brinkley left the campus Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 in Baton Rouge, La. A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students then killed herself Friday morning police said. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller)
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Interactive School Shootings A look at major incidents at U.S. schools in the last decade.
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Interactive Guns In America State-by-state gun laws and death rates, maps of recent school and workplace shootings and facts on who's at risk.
In the latest incident on Friday, a young woman killed two female students in a college classroom at a Louisiana vocational college, then killed herself, police said.
The students apparently were shot in their seats in the second-floor classroom at Louisiana Technical College, Sgt. Don Kelly said.
The incident came on the heels of three other deadly attacks nationwide. In a St. Louis suburb, six people were killed when a gunman stormed a city council meeting. In Ohio, a man fired a gun and stabbed his wife in a school classroom, before killing himself. And in Los Angeles, a gunman killed four people before police shot him to death.
In Friday's Louisiana shooting, 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 offers classes in a dozen subjects including early childhood education, practical nursing, drafting and welding.
Students had to stay in their classrooms for about two hours before being released for the day, said Louis Davis. He said he was taking a test for an automobile technology class when a teacher "said to stay in the classroom because there's been an incident."
He said they were allowed to leave after a police officer asked them brief questions.
School administrators and campus police did not return calls or e-mails.
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.
Details on the other deadly attacks nationwide:
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- erasmus6.... now this is not a lie.... while visiting your wonderful Canada I found the people to be rude, borish and unfriendly.You need to chill out on your opinions and your vulgar language. You must live in a bubble ..leave us alone this is still the most wonderful place to live and know what you would not last in my neighborhood with your unkindness
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- "What''''s up with you that did not notice that before making a false accusation? Are you that desperate?" posted by schoollord
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