University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting
February 12, 2010 was a chilly day in Huntsville, Alabama. It was unusually cold and hovering in the mid 30s. Huntsville is known as the rocket city. It’s where NASA and the space program were born and where many aerospace companies call home.
Instead of heading to the space center, this story takes place at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in an ordinary conference room with professors. It’s a run-of-the-mill meeting that quickly turned fatal.
By the end of that meeting, three professors were shot dead and three more were wounded. When we hear school shooting, we typically think of a student offender. However, this shooting was carried out by a professor who was quietly sitting among her colleagues before the unprompted spree. That professor shot and killed another person back in the 1980s, and some say that foreshadowed the UAH shooting.
Photo Credits: NBC News, The Patriot Ledger, CBS News, The New York Times, University of Alabama in Huntsville website
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