… has been eyeing with interest the story of a University of Connecticut student robbed at gunpoint inside a campus building.
It’s really rare for people with guns to rob people inside of academic buildings. UD‘s been blogging about universities for years, and she can’t recall a case.
The student has now admitted making it up.
September 25th, 2011 at 8:20AM
The murder at Harvard in 2009 was a shooting in the course of a (drug-related) robbery in a dorm.
September 25th, 2011 at 8:25AM
I’d forgotten that one, Mr Punch. Thanks for reminding me. And yes – it was a dispute between drug dealers, neither of whom was a Harvard student. (If I’m recalling correctly.)