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BY LINDSEY BEVER
Two young men each vastly different from the other will forever share a tie to the Seattle Pacific University shooting: one branded a suspect, the other hailed as a hero.
The suspect in the shooting at the university Thursday afternoon that left one dead and several others injured was obsessed with the Columbine High School shootings, unnamed police sources told KIRO 7. The station said the man, 26, had even visited the Colorado site where two student shooters killed 15 and injured 21 classmates in 1999.
The suspect, Aaron Ybarra, was not a student at Seattle Pacific University, police told reporters Thursday night but the man who stopped him was.
Local media have identified Jon Meis, a 22-year-old engineering student, as the hero. He is known to be quiet, gentle and outdoorsy.
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(298,021 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Rather than another gun. So you can take down a shooter without another gun.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Irony of ironies but, very fitting, no?
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)A ban on extended capacity magazines would give heroes a chance to stop a shooter, and that this young man deserves a complete and total scholarship, a full ride for as long and as many degrees as he wants; and a medal!
KT2000
(20,604 posts)was thinking about the full ride scholarship today. Special guy for sure!