STUDENTS of the University of Nevada were seen returning to the institution’s campus to collect personal belongings in Las Vegas on Saturday, two days after a deadly shooting that claimed the lives of three members of the college’s staff and the gunman.
“I’m here to pick up the rest of my stuff and go back to California for a month and I will be back next semester. Hopefully, things will change.”
“As we continued to walk through, we just more and more cops. As we got about right here, everybody told us to go around. We went around to the front and that is right after they got him. There were a lot of cops around this road, that road and all the roads were blocked off.”
“One of our friends was actually in the bathroom and he was hiding in the bathroom when it all happened. The cops came in, they got him out and they helped him to get out,” according to Student, University of Nevada.
On Thursday, 67-year-old Dr. Anthony Polito, a business professor, opened fire against some members of the university’s faculty, killing three of them before dying later on in a shootout with police.
The victims were identified as Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, 64, a professor of business at UNLV, Patricia Navarro-Velez, 39, an assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Naoko Takemaru, a Japanese studies professor.
According to media reports, four other people were wounded in the incident.
Polito had a list of targets at the school and at East Carolina University in North Carolina.
An NBC news report citing two senior law enforcement officials said that the suspect had applied for a teaching job in UNLV but was not hired.
There were also reports that the suspect had an obsession with the Las Vegas and had peculiar ways of working.
