From the News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington:
A man reportedly infatuated with a 30-year-old special education teacher shot and killed the woman outside a Tacoma elementary school … this morning, police said. The gunman later was shot dead by a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy near Fredrickson.
The initial shooting occurred about 7:30 a.m. at Birney Elementary School, where the victim helped teach reading to kids with learning disabilities.
Witnesses told police the gunman… arrived at the school about two hours before the teacher and shot her when she and a female colleague later arrived…
A teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, told The News Tribune the gunman had been in the victim’s master’s degree class when she was at the University of Washington-Tacoma. He had been stalking the victim, leaving roses on her car and notes.
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A story reminiscent of the Johanna Justin-Jinich killing at Wesleyan.
… are emerging in the Annie Le case. But so far they’re just rumors.
Here’s Yale’s official investigation page.
(A psychotic stalker, as in the Johanna Justin-Jinich case? How did he get in the building?)
(Or, as others suggest, someone who worked in the building? Who knew where crawl spaces were, etc.)
… who’s a recent Wesleyan grad reflects on the social networks she followed after the news of Johanna Justin-Jinich’s murder:
… [W]hen you’re part of a community, a crime produces shock, anger, a surplus of emotion, and you seek out information. This week, I learned how social networks offer a way through the clutter of “rational” reporting, sensationalism, and gossip that plague our tragedies, and are no substitutes for the proximity and empathy I was craving. These days, even after you leave a place, you get to keep your social bonds online. They lie dormant, ready to be reactivated with a few keystrokes, when you need them most.
Wesleyan’s president’s tears.
Roth … cried when he recalled Justin-Jinich’s last paper, on the dignity of man.
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…
… reports police activity, but it’s not clear whether the man they’re arresting is Johanna Justin-Jinich’s killer.
The same blog, Wesleying, features, one post down, a surveillance photo of the killer — a very angry man with a gun in his hand.
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Update: The suspect has not in fact been found. Wesleying is a good place to go for the latest information on the search, and for details of daily life, at Wesleyan.
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Second Update: Horrible event, getting more horrible. Wesleyan is essentially locked down as the shooter — a madman who has made threats against Wesleyan students and Jews (Johanna Justin-Jinich was Jewish) — remains at large. Again, Wesleying has details. Their blog is overwhelmed with traffic, so you may need to be patient.
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Third: Bloomberg News:
Justin-Jinich filed an aggravated harassment complaint against Morgan when they were both students at New York University in Manhattan, WNBC News reported. The station said Justin-Jinich was 21 years old.
… was Johanna Justin-Jinich.
This is, I believe, her Facebook
page. This is her picture,
taken from Facebook.
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A little bit more about her, if I may. Jinich is a Sephardic Jewish name; her father (if I’ve identified him correctly) was born in Mexico and grew up here. The name is pronounced HEE-nich.