Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University medical student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says campus police and an off-duty city officer responding to a call for a suspicious person heard screams to call police around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday.
Guglielmi says the student told the man he found in his garage to leave and the man accosted him. That’s when Guglielmi says the student defended himself, cutting off the man’s hand and causing a severe laceration to his upper body…
… that a body has been discovered in the Yale science building where Annie Le was last seen.
Details from the Yale Daily News.
More details from the New York Post:
… [A] university student has failed a lie-detector test when questioned about the missing young woman but [investigators] refused to provide details, including whether he was the same young man who had been led from the building for questioning early Saturday.
Ah oui. Especially since they’re the poor white trash of education.
You know. On-line university courses. Most of them stink, for obvious reasons.
But one thing about them — because they don’t use up classrooms and equipment and campus time in the way of courses where you see and hear other human beings, they’re cheaper, that’s for sure…
The workshop follows recent controversies in Australia over commercially-funded clinical practice guidelines for venous thromboembolism prevention, and a sponsorship deal between Sanofi-Aventis and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute which was in breach of the Medicines Australia code of conduct.
Australia takes up conflict of interest.
… taken down the webpage of Blazej Kot, a computer science graduate student now a suspect in the death of his wife, a post-doc in biomedicine at Cornell.
Looks as though in a rage Kot killed her, then torched the apartment and attempted suicide. Police got to him before he did away with himself.
UD’s friend Alan Allport emails her that he’s locked into a classroom at the moment. There’s a report of a gunman on the Princeton campus.
I’ll keep you updated.
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Update: Alan now writes to say it’s over. But it’s not clear whether that’s because nothing happened, or because the gunman has been captured.
The AP hasn’t yet reported that it’s over.
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Update: From Alan: “The word down at the Wawa is that it was a kid – possibly a student – with a toy or replica gun. Not clear whether he had any kind of harmful intent or whether someone simply saw him and freaked out.”
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Update: Kids. Toy gun.
The natural poetry of an Irvine student who notices birds on campus, and makes a top ten list.
… 4. Black Phoebe
A species I truly adore, these flycatchers are so dapper in little tuxedos: black back and tails with white bellies. They perch on a branch or sign, then fly off, catch an insect and fly back to their perch. This behavior is known, appropriately, as fly-catching. They like head-level branches in the park and call, “fee-bee.” …
Authorities late Thursday arrested the suspect in the slaying of a Wesleyan University student who police said had threatened to kill other students and Jews.
A police spokesman said 29-year-old Stephen P. Morgan was taken into custody in the central Connecticut town of Meriden, about 10 miles from Middletown, and turned over to police investigating Wednesday’s fatal shooting of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich.
A law-enforcement officer in Washington said Morgan turned himself in. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because it was not his case…
“Witnesses say 57-year-old Zinkhan first targeted Clemson University professor Tom Tanner, whom Zinkhan believed to be having an affair with his wife, Marie Bruce. He took aim at her next. Then he reportedly shot 63-year-old Ben Teague, the small theatre group’s father figure, who some say died trying to save the others. “
… at the University of Wyoming, is missing.
He was in Japan, hiking to a volcano.
That was Sunday, and he has not yet returned.
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Lots of detail, and a link to a Facebook group, here.
Dipshitty little plane took me to Fort Myers for my connecting flight to DC.
Hot day, bright sun, and from my window seat I marveled at all the velvet green islands lying flat under white clouds.
“Drug-runners paradise!” I said to my seatmate, who a few moments ago had described his sky diving trips to me.
He couldn’t hear me. Plane got real loud as we leaned toward Ft. Myers, and then it shook like a son of a bitch. “Sein ZOOM Tode,” thought UD, who doesn’t like to fly.
1.) Zinkhan has been fired from his professorship at the University of Georgia.
2.) UD suggested in an earlier post that George Zinkhan has killed himself. Police now seem to be preparing us for that possibility:
… The longer it takes for authorities to find triple murder suspect George Zinkhan, the more likely it is that the UGA professor did something to hurt himself, police said Monday morning.
“That’s a strong possibility,” said Capt. Clarence Holeman of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.
… [P]olice have been tracking Zinkhan’s cellphone, credit cards, ATM card and passport, but none of them has been used since he disappeared on Saturday.
No one has reported any sightings of Zinkhan or his vehicle, despite a nationwide alert for both…
3.) If he killed himself, how did he do it?
Like Jerry Wolff, a biology professor at St. Cloud State who killed himself by wandering deep into a national park and letting the elements take over, Zinkhan was a big outdoorsman who wrote poetry about hiking the Appalachian trail. Given his poetry and his love of nature, I’d guess that Zinkhan did something similar. Walked into the wild. Shot himself.
Unless Zinkhan has an accomplice in Amsterdam (where he has a house) with whom he acted incredibly quickly, chances are he’s dead.
… who wrote poetry, one hesitates. But here’s a page of Zinkhan’s stuff.
Read it while you can. I imagine the American Marketing Association might want to to take it down.
Here’s a perfectly competent poem of his, capturing the bureaucratic surreal:
“after hours”
Late at night after he thought
that everyone had gone home
the senior accounting partner loosened
his tie and
walked around the offices
splay foot
bare
“You’ll catch your death of cold”
pronounced the newly hired secretary
when she caught him one evening
unaware
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Bare. Unaware. Good rhyme, well-placed. And unaware has a nice duality to it — caught him unaware; i.e., he didn’t know she was still in the building. But she too is unaware — unaware of the deeper weirdness in this place, in this man — she’s a new secretary, after all.
Zinkhan, in this poem and others, is highly attuned to the Kafka-nature of The Office (a nature played for laughs in the television shows by that name), the weird disjunction between a buttoned-up rational senior accountant and the same man a bare-footed creature at night roaming the halls. Werewolf story. The naked animal beneath the suit. Catch your death in these cold climes.
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Update: As I anticipated, the poetry has now been removed from the website.
… my ‘thesdan playmate’s famous sister, has died.