Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Amber Cline and her friends saw the bullet hole in the back window of Mrs. E’s on their way to eat on Sunday. They weren’t frightened. Cline’s friends started taking pictures.
“We saw the bullet and thought it was funny,” said Cline, an Overland Park freshman. “I just hear people laugh about it.”
Cline’s opinion was echoed throughout Daisy Hill. Students interviewed said most people weren’t too worried about the second criminal damage incident at Mrs. E’s in the last month.
The latest one occurred last weekend. Someone fired gun shots into back window of Mrs. E’s , according to police reports. The incident occurred sometime between Saturday night at 9:30 and Sunday morning at 11:30.
Students walk into Mrs. E's Dining Hall for dinner Tuesday evening. Someone fired gun shots into the back window of the building sometime Saturday night.
During Fall Break last month, someone fired shots at two of the back windows of Mrs. E’s and the front window of the third floor lobby of Lewis Hall. Both cases were filed as criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor.
Captain Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said police have no suspects yet from either shooting, but The KU Crime Stoppers Board is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of the person or person’s involved in the shooting. Bailey wouldn’t discuss any changes the police are making in the area in hopes of not tipping off the people who vandalized Mrs. E’s.
The first time someone shot at Mrs. E’s KU Police talked with students at a voluntary meeting to discuss the incident. Adrian Levsky, a Glastonbury, Conn., freshman, said students asked police a few questions about the incident, but police also asked students questions about what they thought happened and if they knew any information about who did it.
Levsky said the first incident was a major conversation topic when it occurred and that even more students are talking about the second shooting. But like Cline and her friends, he said most students weren’t scared.
“A lot of people, it’s just in the back of their heads,” Levsky said. “A lot of it will be jokes. It’s the parents who are worried. They freaked when I told them.”
Interviewed students said they and their friends weren’t worried about the incidents because of the location and time the shootings occurred. Both happened at night when no one would be in Mrs. E’s. Paul Elser, Atchison freshman, said he thought the shootings were just acts of vandalism.
“I could see why people would be nervous,” he said, “but I don’t think that it’s an intentional attempted murder shooting or anything. I don’t think anyone has anything to worry about.”
Instead of thinking about safety, Levsky said most students just wanted to know who shot the windows. Levsky said he didn’t know anyone with information about the shooting, but he did know that “a lot” of students had guns for hunting. He thought a student committed the crimes.
“No kids here have been saying stuff about who could’ve done it,” Levsky said. “It was probably just kids fooling around.”
— Edited By Rachael Gray
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