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Cody Cousins is handcuffed Tuesday outside of Purdue University’s Electrical Engineering Building. Police said Cousins entered the building, shot fellow Purdue student Andrew Boldt and then left the building before police arrested him. Boldt, 21, died from the shot.
As reports of 1 gunman spread across campus, 1 student poised himself to fight for his life
How the day unfolded Andrew Boldt, a senior electrical and computer engineering major at Purdue University, was shot and killed when a gunman entered the classroom where he was working as a teaching assistant. Cody Cousins, an electrical and computer engineering major from Warsaw, Ind., was arrested in connection to the shooting. No other injuries were reported in connection with the incident.
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tatton Geary was in a classroom near Tuesday’s fatal shooting on the Purdue University campus. The junior was prepared to fight if he had to — if the gunman entered his classroom. “My thought was ... if he came in, maybe I could grab him,” Geary said. “In my head I said, ‘I’m not going to die today.’” He was in the Mechanical Engineering Building when sirens sounded. Students checking their phones got word from emergency texts of a shooting in the building next door, the Electrical Engineering Building. His professor turned off the lights and everyone moved away from the windows and doors. Geary, instead, placed himself right next to one of the entrances. “I’m at Purdue University,” he recalled thinking. “I’ve given some stuff up to get here; I’m not going to die today.”
Andrew Boldt,
12:03 p.m. Purdue University police receive calls reporting anywhere from three to five shots being fired inside of the Electrical Engineering Building.
a senior electrical engineering major, who was fatally shot
Minutes later Police say suspect Cody Cousins shot Andrew Boldt and left the classroom, room 067. Cousins then leaves the classroom and exits the building from the east door. Cousins surrenders to police, but did not cooperate initially. 2 p.m. Purdue is taken off lockdown.
Cody Cousins,
2:30 p.m. The university resumes normal operations. At a press conference, university staff tell media that one suspect is in custody and one person is dead.
a senior electrical engineering major, who was arrested in connection to the shooting
6 p.m. At a second press conference, Purdue officials release the name of both the suspect and the victim, after informing Boldt’s family of his death.
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Rep. Speaker Bosma says about change | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma on Tuesday sent a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage to a new committee amid concerns that it lacked support on another panel. Bosma announced that the proposed ban and a companion bill will be considered by the House Elections and Apportionment Committee. The move came after the measure stalled in the House Judiciary Committee and Bosma threatened to substitute members of that panel to advance the measure.
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“It was made at the request of the overwhelming majority of the House Republican Caucus and the request of the committee chairman in judiciary,” Bosma said. “He didn’t feel the bill would come to the floor. He knew that was the goal of an overwhelming number of the House members and thought it was best if it went to elections.” He added that it’s “common procedure” to move bills between committees. The change in committees comes one week after Muncie City Council unanimously voted to oppose the referendum. 1. CLOUDY Council member Doug Marshall of District 1 encouraged
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the council to oppose HJR-3 at the Jan. 13 meeting. “I want Muncie to be a city of everyone,” Marshall said. The council heard testimony from 11 Muncie residents and all but one of them urged the council to oppose HJR-3. “ H e t e ro s e xu a l s themselves have virtually destroyed the sanctity of marriage in our society — look at the divorce rate,” said Charles Mason, a Muncie resident and a retired priest. “It’s refreshing to me that gays are very interested in the institution of marriage. Why not give them a crack at restoring marriage?” The House elections commit4. MOSTLY SUNNY 2. MOSTLY CLOUDY 3. PARTLY CLOUDY tee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the proposed ban and
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companion measure this afternoon and then vote. Bosma had promised publicly to let the ban run a normal course in the Legislature but has recently taken a more forceful role in advancing it amid concerns it would die in committee. The House elections panel includes more conservative lawmakers than the judiciary panel, including at least one Democrat who has said he would support a ban. The Judiciary Committee held an hours-long hearing on the measure last week but delayed a vote. It had been expected to vote on the measure this week, but Bosma conceded last week that any decision to advance the proposed ban to the full House would be a narrow one. 5. SUNNY
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