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Dan Cepeda / Casper Star-Tribune
Students and faculty mingle outside the police line on the Casper College campus Friday, Nov. 30, as police investigate a homicide.
Updated at 7:11 p.m. ET: A man killed a woman in Casper, Wyo., on Friday and then headed to the campus of Casper College, where he killed a man in front of students during a science class before killing himself, police said.
The man used "an edged weapon" — earlier described by police, college officials and eyewitnesses as a "bow and arrow-type" weapon — in all three killings, including his own suicide, Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said.
Walsh wouldn't identify any of the victims, including the killer, pending notification of their families. College officials said the man who was targeted in the classroom was a faculty member, whom they also wouldn't immediately identify.
Walsh did say that all three victims were adults who knew one another and that the killer wasn't a current student at the college. The incident didn't appear college-related, he said.
The man appeared to have acted alone. "There is no one at large, and there is no threat of violence," Walsh said Wednesday afternoon.
Police found the two men on the third floor of the community college's physical science center, where they had been called to investigate a "traumatic injury" at about 9 a.m. (11 a.m. ET), Walsh said. Shortly after they arrived, they received a similar call involving an address about two miles from campus, where they found the dead woman.
All told, 33 local, state and federal officers responded at the campus, which was locked down temporarily while police checked for other suspects, authorities said. An alert on the community college's website said that all classes and activities had been canceled and that counselors were being provided for the colleges faculty, students and staff.
Casper College is a two-year community college of 4,400 students in Wyoming's second-largest city.
The school has a small security team on campus, but they're not armed.
"It's such a small town that Casper police is very close," Fujita said.
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I guess this shows all the libtard anti gun nuts that you can kill multiple people with something other than a firearm. I'm also wondering what he used, I don't think it was a crossbow because you have to cock and load them and that takes time. Certianly enough time for others to escape after the first shot.
He killed his dad first then went to the College and killed his dad's girlfriend ( a professor) then cut his own throat and plunged the knife into his own chest, also he was a Meth addict. And yes according to what was reported to Casper/Natrona County centeral dispatch it was a cross bow. Used it on his dad first then stabbed his Dad's girlfriend through the back of the head right at the spinal connection to the brain. And that is from eye witnesses, including students in her class. So those are the facts hope this makes you all warm and fuzzy.
Those writing this are seriously deficient in so may facts. This shooting was done with a crossbow. The "arrows" are called "bolts". One would have a real difficult time killing themselves with a bow. Just stupid reporting.
maybe he was left-handed ....
Good thing he didnt have a gun, there could be many more dead.
Good thing he didn't have a Toyota Pious. He could have run over and killed anyone within 526 miles of him before even having to reload.
Nobody needs cars with that kind of fuel range- they're only good for killing lots of people.
"A Small Un-Armed Security Force"! Lol! Hmm...Maybe Armed Security Force, isn't such a Bad idea!
I wonder how the gun control nuts will handle this one? Ban the bow and arrow? Ban all knives? Ban all large sticks and rocks? Ban belts and rope? And so on and on ........
Sounds like Cupid took too many drugs.
We need to outlaw bows and arrows! Clearly they are dangerous!
... and butter knives too
:P
Please tell me you all are being satirical (look it up if you need to) if you don't get it that the ready availability of a weapon is needed for these tragic deaths of innocents by the ever increasing group of marginally coping Americans. The most available and lethal weapons are guns.
Kamaaina
Your use of satire and Vegas_Rage' statement#395 are the same. However, I do believe that your statement is a bit overboard - butter knives are so much easier to get your hands on! LOL
Okole puka-
The most widely used lethal weapon worldwide is the rock. You gonna ban them too?
Plenty more human lives need to be lost to the bow and arrow before it qualifies for a need to be controlled. No argument can be drawn from this tragedy.
Sounds like someones been watching too many episodes of Walking Dead.
crazy Americans...
MtGuide35
Choose a country, any country and that statement is valid! Does your country have crazy __________— ?(fill in the nationality of your country's inhabitants)
Have a Good Day.
Looks like teach got caught "playing" with dudes wife. I guess there are just some weak minded people out there that just can't handle their husbands or wives "screwing" around on them which then results in things like this. 'Nut Cracks! Goes on Hunting Expedition on Junior College Campus for Two-Timing Friend. Hunt...Successful.'
It's a love triangle, and it seems the two men were after the one woman. Wonder if they will continue in their animosity in the hereafter.
ATTENTION: BOW HUNTERS: We value human life and out decisions are not based out of logic, rather what we fling to the ceiling and see if it sticks. Congress will now ban all quivers that hold more than two arrows. All arrowheads will now be produced out of Nerf materials. Please destroy any quivers you own, along with the assault-arrowheads you currently possess. Thank you and have a swell day.
The Liberals in Washington, The Department of Homeland Security and President Obama
This is typical - shows how real idiots ignore common sense and present an extreme "all or nothing" rant to try to make a point. Someone like this should probably be on medication and be closely monitored - they are ready to snap. I had one who said he understands the point of limiting magazines to 10-12 rounds, but "what about when you are attacked by a flash mob"... I've not heard of this happening - ever.
To the many Gun Dolts here.... Yes we know that the person kills, not the weapon, but as we see here, it's VERY hard to wipe out most of a movie theatre or classroom with a bow and arrow, crossbow, whatever. There NEEDS to be regulation on high capacity magazines so such a nutcase can't keep killing people until his weapon jams. Remember that only single shot weapons were available when our Forefathers wrote the 2nd.
And they'll be falling out of the woodwork now...
Good thing he didn't have a Toyota Pious. He could have run over and killed anyone within 526 miles of him before even having to reload.
Nobody needs cars with that kind of fuel range- they're only good for killing lots of people.
Sounds to me like Killer man found out his wife was cheating and killed her. Then went to the school where the guy she was cheating with worked. Killed him. Then killed himself.
Bow and arrow "type" weapon? There's not a whole lot of range there...
MSN reported on a story about a killing without a "gun" .... The world is gonna end !!!!!
This story clearly illustrustrates the dangers of "jump the gun journalism".
The actual facts of this story have changed dramatically since the first release.
Just another sad story.
I always wonder when I read these stories, what type mental equation is used by the killer to justify his homicidal frenzy?
What could these two people have possibly done to him to justify such a crime?
Love triangle?
Sex is a silly thing over which to kill somebody. If she doesn't want you anymore, then move on.
where did holmes go before CO
was there a threat assessment team there on him
he went to nmsu
his friends were in lulzsec and introduced me to him(wierd)
i bet he hears voices like a high statistical amount of people in las cruces do
here it is
suzana martinez covered up abuse that a annonymous splinter group lulzsec did because it was so horrendous,
they charged the kids with hacking charges instead
she did this because she wanted reefer madness videos to stop the legalization of pot and used the (TAT's)
whose friends were in lulzsec
1 problem, 58 maimed people
prof wurm, aka the jester, gave the students the code to hack as his army using the schools engr.depts and students as cover
enjoy reality
ps wurm was in the last release lulzsec did (booze allen affair as a threat)
hector x mont was in cruces and was introduced to me like the godfather with people afterwards making comments that i should forget his name,
and the FBI didnt know he ever went there
I BET HE HEARD VOICES
What is an edged weapon that's like a bow and arrow? If it's a crossbow call it that. What kind of reporting is this? When I lived in Ottawa where handguns are illegal, a man shot his wife on Bank Street with a crossbow, in broad daylight on a business day. Good shot. It caused quite a stir. But not to make light of it, it does make you wonder.
I was surprised that the police spokesman can't identify the weapon used. Wyoming is a hunting state, after all. (when I went to high school there we could receive two excused absences a year for hunting) Maybe it's an "exotic" or custom bow, probably fairly small so it's concealable under a bulky jacket. Even in Wyoming, someone walking around campus with a crossbow is likely to attract attention!
Better have government ban those bows and arrows.
The bad guy was just being culturally diverse with his choice of weapons. It is never nice to exclude a particular group from your actions.
So now we have to worry about bow and arrows? My thought is that this person was not allowed by law to carry a firearm or had a criminal record. What's next sling shots?
Damn injun's on the warpath again, I thought we massacred all of them years ago, oh, I mean put them on reservations.