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Ohio Suicide Attempt Thwarted; S.C. Student Accidentally Shoots Himself

February 11, 2008 RSS Feed Print

While much of the media rushed to make sense of the apparent murder-suicide at Louisiana Technical College on Friday, two other schools had their own scares last week.

*An Ohio University employee who threatened to kill himself by jumping from a fifth-story perch atop a university building voluntarily ended a tense standoff after three hours, the Post reports. At the beginning of the standoff, police evacuated the building, while students and onlookers gathered around the scene to gawk, pray, and write letters of empathy. The man was eventually taken to the local hospital for evaluation.

*At Greenville Technical College, a student shot himself in the leg in his dorm. The accident caused a non-life-threatening injury, and the student was soon sent to the hospital.

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