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sked14

(579 posts) Thu Jan 30, 2014, 04:37 PM Jan 2014

Florida State College reports shooting on campus [View all]

Source: MSN

The university said on its Twitter feed the shooting occurred in a parking lot on its Palm Bay campus in Cocoa, Florida. The campus is currently on lockdown.

MIAMI — Eastern Florida State College said on Thursday that a shooting had been reported on its campus on Florida's east coast.

The university said on its Twitter feed the shooting occurred in a parking lot on its Palm Bay campus in Cocoa, Florida.

"Campus is locked down and people are asked to stay inside with doors locked," the college said.

Read more: http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/florida-state-college-reports-shooting-on-campus

And the beat goes on.

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Florida State College reports shooting on campus [View all] sked14 Jan 2014 OP

Does another shooting qualify as late breaking news? TexasTowelie Jan 2014 #1

As often as this is happening, sked14 Jan 2014 #3

Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #5

MORE guns are the solution!!!!! HockeyMom Jan 2014 #2

Right. Why pay for birth control when there are so many guns? Gungeoneer logic. nt valerief Jan 2014 #7

Guns are part of the anchor pulling America to the bottom. nt onehandle Jan 2014 #4

Florida. Ground standers. They drink their coffee out of these. valerief Jan 2014 #6

Wow, that's pretty wild. sked14 Jan 2014 #8

Headline is sorta ambiguous. This isn't the home of the National Champion football team. alp227 Jan 2014 #9

So this is possibly a case of self defense? sked14 Jan 2014 #10

It doesn't read like a "heat of the moment" shooting. alp227 Jan 2014 #11

You're right, sked14 Jan 2014 #13

Which means that the story will be conveniently forgotten. X_Digger Jan 2014 #14

So they were still beating on him, sked14 Jan 2014 #15

As you can see, once this looked like self-defense, the story dropped like a stone. X_Digger Jan 2014 #17

I wonder why that is? sked14 Jan 2014 #18

A drug deal gone bad warrant46 Jan 2014 #20

Responsible gun owners Dopers_Greed Jan 2014 #12

It was self defense. nt hack89 Jan 2014 #24

It was in Palm Bay, Florida cpwm17 Jan 2014 #16

It must be Friday... Aristus Jan 2014 #19

Except this was posted on Thursday. sked14 Jan 2014 #21

There was probably a shooting then, too. Aristus Jan 2014 #22

There was, the article I posted happened yesterday, but it turns out it was sked14 Jan 2014 #23