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From CNN.com:
CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A gunman opened fire Friday afternoon at Case Western Reserve University, spraying bullets inside the lobby of the university's school of management building.
Two people were shot, including one who remained inside the building, university spokeswoman Marci Hersh said. The building has been sealed, and SWAT team members have entered.
One of the victims was shot outside and has been taken to a hospital, Hersh said
"We heard gunfire a little after 4 p.m., and almost immediately police descended on the building," said Dick Bennett, the executive director of development at the Weatherhead School of Management. "There's quite a bit of shooting going on."
Bennett was speaking from the third floor of the Peter B. Lewis building -- the school's much-heralded $62 million facility designed by architect Frank Gehry. The 152,000-square-foot building has six levels. (More on building)
There were "tens, if not hundreds" of shots fired -- what sounded like "the culminating event of the Fourth of July," Bennett said.
"The shots you can hear quite clearly up here," he said, noting that the lobby is an open atrium so the sound has been echoing through the building.
Bennett described the shots as automatic fire, going off in "fairly rapid succession." The shots sounded for more than an hour, before calming about 5:10 p.m. Around 5:40 p.m., more shots were fired.
He said he and eight others -- including a pregnant woman -- were in a glassed-in office, and would move into a more enclosed copy room if they were threatened.
Bennett estimated about 40 to 50 people were inside the building when the shooting began. Final exams had ended this week, so the building wasn't as full as during the school year. Graduation is scheduled for May 18.
He said he felt "violated" by the shooter for ruining what had been another good academic year: "It is very sad."
Cleveland Police Chief Edward Lohn made a plea through the media for the gunman to contact police at (216) 375-8112. Authorities suspect the man has access to a television.
Michael Moore, a security guard on campus, said police told him the gunman was not a student.
"He had a machine gun, book bag, camouflage shirt, military green hat, white pants and a book bag," eyewitness LeKisha Spencer, 28, told The Associated Press. "He was just walking, aiming his guns and firing."
Case Western Reserve is an independent research university with programs in the arts and sciences, engineering, the health sciences, law, management and social work.
The Weatherhead School of Management has more than 1,600 students, fewer than 10 percent of whom would have been around on a Friday afternoon, Bennett said.
He said Fridays are research days, which means most of the faculty would have been away, also.
The Peter B. Lewis building opened for last year's fall semester after more than three years of construction.
From CNN.com:
CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- A gunman opened fire Friday afternoon at Case Western Reserve University, spraying bullets inside the lobby of the university's school of management building.
Two people were shot, including one who remained inside the building, university spokeswoman Marci Hersh said. The building has been sealed, and SWAT team members have entered.
One of the victims was shot outside and has been taken to a hospital, Hersh said
"We heard gunfire a little after 4 p.m., and almost immediately police descended on the building," said Dick Bennett, the executive director of development at the Weatherhead School of Management. "There's quite a bit of shooting going on."
Bennett was speaking from the third floor of the Peter B. Lewis building -- the school's much-heralded $62 million facility designed by architect Frank Gehry. The 152,000-square-foot building has six levels. (More on building)
There were "tens, if not hundreds" of shots fired -- what sounded like "the culminating event of the Fourth of July," Bennett said.
"The shots you can hear quite clearly up here," he said, noting that the lobby is an open atrium so the sound has been echoing through the building.
Bennett described the shots as automatic fire, going off in "fairly rapid succession." The shots sounded for more than an hour, before calming about 5:10 p.m. Around 5:40 p.m., more shots were fired.
He said he and eight others -- including a pregnant woman -- were in a glassed-in office, and would move into a more enclosed copy room if they were threatened.
Bennett estimated about 40 to 50 people were inside the building when the shooting began. Final exams had ended this week, so the building wasn't as full as during the school year. Graduation is scheduled for May 18.
He said he felt "violated" by the shooter for ruining what had been another good academic year: "It is very sad."
Cleveland Police Chief Edward Lohn made a plea through the media for the gunman to contact police at (216) 375-8112. Authorities suspect the man has access to a television.
Michael Moore, a security guard on campus, said police told him the gunman was not a student.
"He had a machine gun, book bag, camouflage shirt, military green hat, white pants and a book bag," eyewitness LeKisha Spencer, 28, told The Associated Press. "He was just walking, aiming his guns and firing."
Case Western Reserve is an independent research university with programs in the arts and sciences, engineering, the health sciences, law, management and social work.
The Weatherhead School of Management has more than 1,600 students, fewer than 10 percent of whom would have been around on a Friday afternoon, Bennett said.
He said Fridays are research days, which means most of the faculty would have been away, also.
The Peter B. Lewis building opened for last year's fall semester after more than three years of construction.
