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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by nicolethenerd »

MichaelSalib wrote: post #31
untog wrote: post #5

Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.

When I was at MIT, I don't recall a single on-campus shooting.

While I was there, there were no shootings, but two stabbings. Both by people known to the victims, though, not random acts of violence. Not that that makes it any better or anything. :-/

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by __david__ »

spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him.

This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now...

Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud...

To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers...

Edit 2: Looks like he isn't a suspect after all (someone said his name on the police scanner and it spread through the net like wildfire): https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325176638537076736

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by selter01 »

dsrguru wrote: post #139
anigbrowl wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may or may not be connected, but police in Boston have surrounded two men who are exchanging automatic gunfire them and have thrown grenades, another officer down. The grenades have been mentioned repeatedly, it's not 'I think I heard.' http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web via Reddit. :-/

That's in Watertown not Cambridge, so it sounds unrelated. All this stuff happening around Boston at the same time jeez http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

Watertown is 10-15 minutes away from MIT. It seems likely that they were connected, given that there was a carjacking ~2 minutes away from MIT in Cambridge.

Note: the carjacking happened in the same direction from MIT as Watertown.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by mikeknoop »

spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

"White hat guy" vs "Sunil Tripathi"

http://i.imgur.com/3Bh7rkc.gif

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by lostlogin »

marcamillion wrote: post #80
weisser wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Live stream of police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

Thanks for this. Kinda feels weird sitting in Jamaica listening to the police scanner around MIT. Kinda awesome too - I know the tech is simple...but actually experiencing it, gives you this "world is small" feeling.

Im sitting on the couch in Auckland, New Zealand feeling the same.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by [deleted] »

michaelochurch wrote: post #46
untog wrote: post #5

Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.

I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" The mid-April week has always had a higher-than-normal rate of manic-type (e.g. spree killings) violence, and there are a lot of theories about it (spring inciting grandeur in unstable men) but no one knows why. Those are very rare, high-visibility events, though. Overall, that time is no more dangerous than any other. (There's only about…

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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kd0amg »

rexreed wrote: post #188
kd0amg wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard the carjacking reported on scanner while the MIT standoff was still going on, and there was a pretty short time between police at the MIT incident switching channels and some frantic-sounding talk from police following up on LoJack's report that the stolen car was in Watertown. So I'm inclined to believe these are two separate things.

Here's a helpful map of the events that happened so far that show the proximity of the various events: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200082141349599835237.0...

The carjacking victim reported that they'd been driving around for about half an hour before he escaped at a gas station. Time's arrow beats proximity.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by lostlogin »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #67
homosaur wrote: post #20

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At my old uni, you could submit a cell number to an emergency alert system and you would get texts if something like this went down. I'm guessing MIT has something similar although not sure if this system is part of it. I'm sure someone will clarify soon.

My uni has just that, and the nagging question I keep asking myself is just how much money are they spending on that service that is profoundly useless. When there is an emergency the police show up damn quick, and there is nothing to be gained for people on the other side of campus to receive a text that building X is on fire. I feel the money would be of more use elsewhere.

Many places face hazards that have a delay before hitting - tsunami is one I know of specifically, and gunmen wondering around would seem to be relevant here. How is this not the best sort of alert system?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kefka »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #157
trbs wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mods deleted the reddit thread above, it's been moved here: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_th...

Updated -- thanks.

Older reddit thread hit limit and crashed. New link

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1co395/live_updates_of...

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