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Originally Posted by miraja2
I am a PhD student/TA at NIU. The class I am a TA for actually meets in that classroom in Cole Hall every Monday and Wednesday. I was sitting in that classroom yesterday from 11:00-11:50. This whole thing is freakin' nuts.
The latest reports indicate that a total of six people (including the shooter) are dead with I think 15 more injured. As far as I know so far, everybody I know is okay, but it is still possible that some of my students (or former students) are among the injured....or worse.
I don't actually live in DeKalb (I live over an hour away, just outside of Chicago) so I don't know everything that has been going on, but this has been one hell of a crazy day. Apparently the shooter was a grad student in the Sociology department. The sociology department shares a building with several departments - including the history department which I am part of. I guess there is a pretty good chance that I rode in an elevator or said "hi" to this guy sometime last year.
This whole thing is just absolutely crazy.
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Thanks for posting that and I'm very sorry for what you are dealing with now. Sometimes we all get caught up in the aftermath about what could have been done and forget about all those just trying to deal with what happened. Take care and hang in there