Two people injured in shooting near UT campus

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Austin American-Statesman

Two men were injured in a shooting near a construction site on Rio Grande Street near the University of Texas campus Wednesday morning, officials said.

The shooting occurred about 11:45 a.m. just north of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, officials said. Both men were taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge; one with a serious injury and the other with potentially life-threatening injuries, officials said.

Police are on the scene, and no other details were immediately available.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/two-people-injured-in-shooting-near-ut-campus/nfmD7/

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. That's my old student neighborhood. I miss west campus.

[They_Live]

2. Same here.

I miss it too, except for all of the scary crazy people. Plain crazy is okay, but I draw the line at malevolent & destructive crazy.

[Jane Austin]

12. Not me.

I still live here. Love my city and my neighborhood.

[leftynyc]

3. Calling my nephew

who graduates in 2 weeks from there. He's not answering.

[leftynyc]

4. He just called

right after he called his mother because he's a very smart young man. Prayers for the victims (I have no idea what condition they're in) and the families.

[herding cats]

5. Don't worry, he's probably in class.

The only two people involved were workers at the construction site near UT, not students at UT. One, who had recently been fired from his job at the site, returned to the job site with a gun and opened fire on the foreman. The foreman pulled out his own gun and shot the ex-employee.

What's sad is this isn't even a shocking event anymore.

[leftynyc]

6. I have to admit

I saw UT and my heart skipped a beat. I've been kidding him for 4 years that he needed to come back to where we are sane about guns and two weeks before he graduates - this. My favorite WTF moment lately was finding out the two women in my office (in NYC) grew up and were educated through college in Texas. Both are more anti-gun than most NYers.

[herding cats]

7. You and every person with a loved one attending UT did the same

No one can blame you for that!

People are often surprised how many of the 'Texas Exes' turned out Liberal. I blame it on the good educators and the weirdness that was the Austin experience.

[leftynyc]

8. Yup - both these women

are from Austin or it's immediate surroundings. I've never been there so I'm kinda looking forward to seeing "the only sane place in Texas". Sounds like it's a good thing I'm a carnivore.

[TexasTowelie]

11. Just up the road at Southwestern University in Georgetown for me,

but I hung out on the Drag and the rest of Austin in college and the early part of my working career. My liberal attitude is a direct result of an American Government instructor that was working on his PhD at UT while also teaching the classes in Marxism and Amer. Gov't. at Southwestern.

[Aristus]

9. In other news: it's Wednesday.

It's an everyday occurrence now, isn't it?...

[mikeysnot]

10. good guy with gun shoots bad guy with gun, right?

the irony being that guns were the problems here to begin with. I am sure the ex-employee was a "law abiding citizen"...