Gunman loose at UT-Austin campus

[word]

shots fired...

WOAI just reported.

[benefactor]

Lots of tweets about it. Hope everyone is ok.

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Hope they get this shit straightened out. Thoughts and prayers for UT.

[benefactor]

Latest is that he is in the library.

[Drachen]

Austin American Statesman is reporting that the guy shot himself.

[Spurminator]

APD chief Art Acevedo: 1 person dead on campus of self-inflicted shot. Police searching for another suspect.

http://twitter.com/statesman

[blizz]

What did he lose?

[CosmicCowboy]

What did he lose?

his mind, apparently.

[marini martini]

What did he lose?

His membership to ST.

[CosmicCowboy]

His membership to ST.

LOL guess Boutons finally cracked.

[Cry Havoc]

2nd shooter is still at-large on campus.

[word]

Probably had a class he had to get to.

[Cry Havoc]

Officials have now CLOSED the UT-Austin campus. Gunman still on the loose. They are warning those who are not on campus to stay away.

Emergency Information

September 28, 2010 at 9:45 am

The university is closed.

A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Law enforcement are searching for a second suspect. If you are off campus, STAY AWAY. If you are on campus, lock doors, do not leave your building.

Announced September 28, 2010 at 9:43 am

[The Reckoning]

yeah no classes today. i had one at 11, but figured itd be closed anyway because my prof is head of campus security...

im right next door to the PCL. seems like APD brought out its entire arsenal to parade all over campus. they wont let me leave my room except to go eat.

[koriwhat]

people are fuckin' idiots. idiots with guns.

[CuckingFunt]

Someone wandering around a college campus with a gun is a good thing to joke about.

[easjer]

Yeah, Elizabeth McCracken has been tweeting about it. She's in lockdown in her office. 9-10 SWAT-team-like people (camo and rifles) came through her building a short time ago. She doesn't think there is a second shooter, but the only way to affirm that is to do this sort of search.

[DMX7]

yeah no classes today. i had one at 11, but figured itd be closed anyway because my prof is head of campus security...

im right next door to the PCL. seems like APD brought out its entire arsenal to parade all over campus. they wont let me leave my room except to go eat.

Where do you live? The jester center?

[The Reckoning]

Dobie. 26th floor too, so ive got a birds eye view of everything going on. amored cars, swat, helis, etc. kind of ridiculous.

good thing i dont have classes in the morning, or id be locked in a classroom right now.

[ashbeeigh]

Here's a stream: http://www.kvue.com/live-stream/Live-streaming-video-98362634.html

[Frenzy]

Wtf is up... go Crazy by yourself. Why go to a campus...

[Cry Havoc]

Dobie. 26th floor too, so ive got a birds eye view of everything going on. amored cars, swat, helis, etc. kind of ridiculous.

good thing i dont have classes in the morning, or id be locked in a classroom right now.

Pics?

[The Reckoning]

i dont have a camera...but it looks like someone like bill powers just came out and is talking to the media at the yellow tape. theyve been blaring the emergency campus horn all morning...

[PakiDan]

Latest report from The Austin American Statesman.... the gunman found dead in the library reportedly only had one testicle....

[Chomag]

Not sure if the Gunman changed his mind at the last second and just killed himslelf or what. Thank God no one else was hurt though.

[CosmicCowboy]

After that ass whippin Saturday it might be Mack Brown.

[BlairForceDejuan]

Students are extremely lucky they are still alive if the dude had an Ak-47. Weird to go through all of that just to kill yourself first.

[mrsmaalox]

Students are extremely lucky they are still alive if the dude had an Ak-47. Weird to go through all of that just to kill yourself first.

Yea some witness on tv says the guy was running down a street that had plenty of pedestrians, but he wasn't shooting at anyone, just shooting.

[Soul_Patch]

After that ass whippin Saturday it might be Mack Brown.

Lol...i said something similar on the 2cool site earlier and got crucified for it.

:nope

[tp2021]

Just got an emergency text from UT. They've given the situation the all-clear.

[redzero]

Thoughts and prayers for UT.

Yeah, that'll help.

[Sisk]

Yeah, that'll help.

Quit being a douchebag.

Glad everyone is OK and that he didn't kill anyone else but himself.

[The Reckoning]

i didnt get a damn alert at all. fail system.

[mrsmaalox]

i didnt get a damn alert at all. fail system.

You can come out from under the bed now ;)

[Sisk]

i didnt get a damn alert at all. fail system.

They knew you had SpursTalk

[Halberto]

I wish he had came tomorrow morning just before my Physics test. I'm so jealous of the people who had tests canceled.

I can only imagine hearing the creepy Indian guy over the PCL intercom... "Attention students, the checkout desk is now closed."

[ChumpDumper]

Is there a link to the gunman's facebook page yet?

[Cyrano]

Latest report from The Austin American Statesman.... the gunman found dead in the library reportedly only had one testicle....

More importantly, did he have calf tats?

[The Reckoning]

theres a joke going around campus that he was looking for Greg Davis

i thought it was pretty funny

[thispego]

Latest report from The Austin American Statesman.... the gunman found dead in the library reportedly only had one testicle....

least funny guy on spurstalk ladies and gentlemen.

[Ryvin1]

Is there a link to the gunman's facebook page yet?

Authorities identified the gunman as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major.
http://www.facebook.com/ctoovey3?ref=search









okay guy with same name but not sure it's actually him.

[The Reckoning]

yeah i failed cal at UT so im not surprised

[DesignatedT]

Guy looks like a pussy.

[tp2021]

I knew him. We went to the same middle and high school, and he graduated one year behind me. He was nerdy and quiet, I don't know what to think...how he got a hold of an AK-47, why he would shoot it in the air on campus...he didn't even hurt anybody...I mean damn, all I've seen all morning is "Gunman, Gunman, Gunman," he was a kid, just 19 years old!

[DesignatedT]

I knew him. We went to the same middle and high school, and he graduated one year behind me. He was nerdy and quiet, I don't know what to think...how he got a hold of an AK-47, why he would shoot it in the air on campus...he didn't even hurt anybody...I mean damn, all I've seen all morning is "Gunman, Gunman, Gunman," he was a kid, just 19 years old!

That's crazy.

[tp2021]

I just wish I knew why he did what he did. If he wanted to hurt someone, lord knows he could have...a freaking automatic assault rifle in the most congested student congregation spot on one of the biggest campuses in the country...yet he only shot bullets into the sky. And himself.

[Cane]

Crazy stuff, at least he only took himself out. Being a 19 year old college student at UT Austin should be the time of one's life instead of stressing out like crazy :(

[Bukefal]

I knew him. We went to the same middle and high school, and he graduated one year behind me. He was nerdy and quiet, I don't know what to think...how he got a hold of an AK-47, why he would shoot it in the air on campus...he didn't even hurt anybody...I mean damn, all I've seen all morning is "Gunman, Gunman, Gunman," he was a kid, just 19 years old!


That's crazy.

:wow Crazy indeed.

Luckily no one got hurt.

[tp2021]

Just Colton

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Yeah, that'll help.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot to say FUCK YOU, redzero.

Glad the Horns got the situation under control--that's a situation I wouldn't wish on any campus.

[The Reckoning]

yeah so i just realized nobody in my family asked if i was ok, and it happened right outside my window. i did get one email from my dad about finances, but thats about it. haha.

[chunticakes]

he must have been bullied.

[CubanSucks]

he must have been bullied.

lol Tooley

[J.T.]

he must have been bullied.

more likely that he was butthurt about the football team losing to ucla