App State on Lockdown After Reports of Masked Gunman

[NC_Nurse]

Source: WRAL News

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University has put all campus buildings on lockdown and is urging students and staff to stay away from an area near campus after reports of a masked gunman.

In an emergency crime alert posted at 4:47 p.m. on the university's Web site, emergency officials said the man, described as a white male, 6 feet tall, wearing a black Pink Floyd T-shirt with a rainbow prism on it – was seen in the area of Appalachian South Apartments and the Hill Street area.

He was reportedly carrying a small black handgun and wearing a black or blue ski mask, red and green tennis shoes and was last seen with a small black, according the Web site.

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Just called my kids, they are okay. Damn.

[EFerrari]

1. This is so awful. My years at college were so tranquil.

It's hard to imagine what it must be like now.

I'm glad your kids are okay.

Damn. :(

[NC_Nurse]

4. I know, what is the deal with this?

:-(

[EFerrari]

7. Well, we've been ignoring or demonizing the mentally ill for 30 years or so.

It's coming home. That's all I can think.

And, since I come from an interesting family and tend to be interesting myself, I don't mean to stigmatize anyone. It's just that if no one is paying attention, sh!t is going to happen.

[NC_Nurse]

8. True enough. It's just so sad and hard to understand.

Shit, they've cut mental health services so much in this state it's actually amazing we
don't have more of these incidents, I guess. :(

[EFerrari]

9. We don't have more because people who'd actually do something like this are rare.

You probably know that better than I do.

But, "rare" is too many. :(

[Ian David]

2. Is Boone, NC where Boone's Farm Wine comes from? n/t

[RoyGBiv]

3. Seriously?

Boone's Farm is made in California.

[Ian David]

5. Sorry, question just popped into my head and out my fingers despite lack of relevance. n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

21. You're So-o-o-o Under 40

In a certain age group, I believe the first time we puked from alcohol, it came up the psychedelic shades of Boone's Farm

[Ian David]

23. With me, it was Strawberry Vodka and St. Pauli Girl. n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

30. Just reading this post?

I threw up. Thanks for that...

:)

[NC_Nurse]

6. It's in Boone, NC. No wine though, as far as I know.

Beautiful place most of the time.

[japple]

10. Man oh man. I worked there for many years, and a lot of my friends

are there. It is a beautiful little town, except for some of the dorms and student housing. Hope everyone stays cool and this situation turns out okay.

[tekisui]

11. Damn, I have a good friend there, now. Many in the past.

Boone is a beautiful, quiet college town. Of course, that's the kind of place where things like this happens. I hope everyone is well.

Keep us updated.

[NC_Nurse]

12. My daughter says they have lifted the lock down.

I don't think they found the person, but I guess they've decided he's out of the area.
Nobody got hurt, no shots fired from what's on the news. Monday night classes are
cancelled.
Thanks for your good wishes. :hi:

[tekisui]

13. Great news.

Thanks for the update.

:hi:

[Faygo Kid]

15. Now that it's over, I can say it: Disgruntled U-M fan?

They carry grudges down there in Ann Arbor.

[fascisthunter]

14. guns keep society safe!

heh heh heh heh.... **enter Twilight Zone music**

[Pavulon]

16. They do in Watauga county

look up murder stats there and then where you live.

[JanMichael]

24. yeah. That couldn't have ANYTHING to do with the socio-economic

group from that area, eh.

Lots of crime up there in the upper middle class golf and ski set---or maybe those people that shop at the overpriced crap shoppes in Blowing Rock.

Give me a break.

As far as the poverty outside that setting? They don't have enough to steal most of the time; and they have guns for hunting.

I don't think you can compare the crime rate there to say...oh....downtown Atlanta, D.C., or even Charlotte.

[Pavulon]

27. Check Avery or Mitchell gun crime rates

people do have guns and just choose not to shoot each other. Normal people, norman jobs, little to no gun crime.

It has ALL to do with socio-economic and cultural aspects. Suspect you would still see gun suicides and accidents but not drug related and gang related body stacking.

[JanMichael]

29. OK, so now we are talking about different counties?

I am very familiar with all three.

Tell me what other counties we are looking at in the US for our "comparison."

The OP is about Boone. It sounds like you are from NC; you know Boone and Blowing Rock aren't exactly "normal." If you want to compare them to say....Hilton Head, I guess we have something to discuss.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. Couldn't we just ban White Males instead?

Seems like the problem would go away...

[JanMichael]

25. Boone, NC wouldn't exist if you did that

trust me. The whole town would up and leave.

[katty]

17. geezus, every week, is black ops releasing their time

bomb manchurian zombies all over--or off the meds, again?!!

[ashevillepolitics]

18. outline of Mental Health Reform in NC

In a nutshell, the governor took the millions of dollars which was to have been used for the creation of the scaffolding of mental health reform, paid some other bills, hired some cozy consultants for close to a million dollars when the thing was going down the tubes, then said that the former secretary had not been behind mental health reform, which was of course a lie, and then fled to a fallout shelter whilst avoiding the sad parade of perturbed, saddened, and hopping mad, citizens and providers.

Marsha V. Hammond, PhD aka Madame Defarge
NC Mental Health Reform blogspot: http://madame-defarge.blogspot.com/

[paparush]

31. You Just NAILED It. I worked for Blue Ridge Mental Health Years Ago

(in Mitchell County)
Public Mental Health has become a tragic joke in NC.

Services are virtually non-existent in the rural, western counties.

[Lance_Boyle]

19. 'last seen with a small black' what?

That line is giving me Top Secret flashbacks.

[High Plains]

22. I remember when lockdowns were for prisons.

[truthisfreedom]

26. Pink Floyd t-shirt?

70's stoner rocker gone amok?

[Pavulon]

28. HOAX, dude forgot his key

and broke his door. Then made this up so he would not have to pay.

That is a standard boone crime.

Very safe place.

[Javaman]

32. Who was that masked man? nt

[LostinVA]

33. Update: this was a hoax

My parents live very close to Boone -- I asked my mom this morning whatever happened. She said it was a hoax -- the student wanted to get out of paying for a kicked in door (or some such). The police are charging him, and it appears App is expelling him.

I lived in VA last year when the massacre at Tech occurred, so this REALLY pisses me off. People I knew had loved ones killed at Tech, so lying about it is sickening.