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Monday, December 11, 2006

Target Practice at
Oregon State University

Excerpts from an article by Gwyneth Gibby in today's Corvallis Gazette:

...After a Corvallis man, Dennis Sanderson, was shot Oct. 14, in the alley behind [an Oregon State University fraternity] house, police searched Alpha Gamma Rho and found more than two dozen weapons including .22-caliber rifles and 12- and 20-gauge shotguns.

Included in the arsenal was the .22-caliber rifle used to shoot Sanderson.


Police reports from the investigation, which include reports of interviews with members of fraternity, reveal ongoing resentment about transients in the alley.

...Sanderson had just climbed out of a dumpster between AGR and Phi Gamma Delta, otherwise known as Figi, when he felt something hit his left thigh. He took a step and it hurt. When he looked at his leg he saw blood and realized he’d been shot.

...Some [of the weapons] were in a gun safe, but others were in closets and cars.




When the shooter realized he'd hit a man, he and a friend who watched him do it went to get pizza. One school official describes the incident as "something of legitimate concern." Another says that students need to work on "finding appropriate ways to interact with transients."
Posted at: 12/11/2006 07:43:00 AM