Columbia University Student, 19, Jumps From Dorm Window

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2875646/Columbia-University-student-19-jumps-naked-eighth-floor-dorm-room-survives-landing-scaffold.html

Pictured: Columbia University student, 19, fighting for life after jumping naked from eighth-floor dorm room while 'high'
Male student was found lying naked on support structure beneath third-floor window at 8.15pm Monday
Was rushed to Mount Sinai St Luke's Hospital reportedly suffering from severe internal bleeding; was described as awake and breathing
Student reportedly walked into to eighth-floor room of female student at Wien Hall while high on drugs and began undressing before taking the leap
By Snejana Farberov for MailOnline and Sara Malm for MailOnline
Published: 01:53 EST, 16 December 2014 | Updated: 09:26 EST, 16 December 2014

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“He walked into the girl’s room and climbed into her bed naked. He covered himself up with the blankets. Security was notified. A security officer came to the room and the kid punched him in the face and shoved him out of the room and closed the door,” a law enforcement source said.
It was unclear if the girl was in bed at the time, the source added, but the security guard called the NYPD to report the bizarre behavior.
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Brandon Marco 
Photo: Facebook

The jumper, Brandon Marco, 19, was apparently high on drugs and had been acting erratically before entering the woman’s room in Wien Hall at 411 W. 116th St. and Morningside Drive at 8 p.m. Monday, police said.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/16/columbia-student-acted-erratically-before-jumping-from-window/

Columbia student attacked guard before jumping out 8th floor window
By Jamie Schram, Yaron Steinbuch, Kevin Fasick and Kirstan Conley
New York Post
December 16, 2014 | 10:12am

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[From article]
The 19-year-old man had been acting “erratically” before he walked into a woman’s room in Wien Hall at 8 p.m. and took off his clothing, according to police.
Officers were sent to the room after someone in the building called 911. But the student had already leaped out the window.
He was discovered on a third- floor setback and was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was in critical but stable condition.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/16/columbia-student-hospitalized-after-jumping-out-dorm-window/

Columbia student hospitalized after jumping out dorm window
By Kenneth Garger, Kirstan Conley and Leonica Valentine
New York Post
December 16, 2014 | 2:41am

Columbia University Dental Student Charges Date She Met Online Raped Her

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/victim_stayed_for_breakfast_with_T6pDgUx1IoeWwK6Dr39FeP


Victim stayed for breakfast with ‘rapist’
By JAMIE SCHRAM Police Bureau Chief
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:53 AM, May 1, 2013
Posted: 2:48 AM, May 1, 2013


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317253/Sean-Ahearn-accused-raping-Columbia-dental-student-Ritz-claims-victim-brainwashed.html

Columbia dental student 'drugged with liquid ecstasy and raped at the Ritz by man she met online' - but he claims victim was brainwashed by 'some little weasel'
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:24 EST, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:47 EST, 30 April 2013

MD Honor Student, 17, Shot Dead In Her Own Bed

Amber Stanley,17, MD honor student, was shot multiple times while she [was] in her bed after a male suspect kicked down the door to her Kettering, Maryland home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192875/Honors-student-17-planned-study-medicine-Harvard-shot-dead-bed-home-invasion.html#ixzz24SMqQsPl

[From article]
Police spokesman Cpl. Larry Johnson said to the Washington Times that officers went to Amber’s home on August 17th to investigate a report of an assault.
No arrests were made in that case, and no further details about the incident were immediately available

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192875/Honors-student-17-planned-study-medicine-Harvard-shot-dead-bed-home-invasion.html

Honors student, 17, who planned to study medicine at Harvard shot dead in her bed during home invasion
Male suspect burst into Amber Stanley's Kettering, Maryland home, walked up to her bedroom and shot her multiple times in her bed
A successful student, Stanley was said to be destined for Harvard University where she wanted to study medicine to become a doctor
Was popular and well liked at her high school and neighbours described her as quiet and modest
By JAMES NYE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 22:36 EST, 23 August 2012 | UPDATED: 23:10 EST, 23 August 2012

Male Student Shot Dead on Mississippi St. U. Campus

Three black males are sought for the campus shooting death of a white Mississippi State University student. Will El Presidente Obama express his concern to the parents for the death of this white man?



John Sanderson, 21, shot to death in dorm at Mississippi State University.

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120326/NEWS/120326039/Second-suspect-MSU-shooting-arrested?odyssey=mod%7Cbreaking%7Ctext%7CHome

Second suspect in MSU shooting arrested
11:13 PM, Mar. 26, 2012
Written by
Jerry Mitchell

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Mason Perry Jones, 21, charged with Capital Murder.

http://www.wlbt.com/story/17258901/person-of-interest-in-msu-shootings-caught-at-memphis-bus-station

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Mason Jones charged with Capital Murder in MSU shooting
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 5:35 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 26, 2012 10:21 PM EDT
By Bert Case

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http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=16252

Mississippi State releases more details on Saturday homicide
Dispatch Staff Report
March 25, 2012 10:37:27 AM

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http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/node/9529

UPDATED: University remains in emergency setting; 10 a.m. press conference scheduled
March 25, 2012
BY CARL SMITH

Nine-year-old Girl Killed by Brutal Grandmother

One more bright young lady killed off by negligent parents. No wonder US students are falling further behind other countries.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120225/D9T44FI80.html

Ala girl's short life full of turmoil before death
Feb 24, 9:30 PM (ET)
AP
By JAY REEVES

News Is Not For Everyone

News Is Not For Everyone

CYA is so pervasive at Universities that a student has a better
understanding of events than university administrators. (Peter Gelzinis, "D’oh!
Play explosive could’ve detonated a tragedy with pranks gone wild," Boston
Herald, September 23, 2007) The MIT spokesman called the wearing of a circuit
board reckless. A student noted it was due to lack of common sense.
Criminal intent is necessary for criminal liability. The MIT student had
none. Having no street sense is not a crime. Many academics do not read
newspapers. Sorry to disappoint you Peter.
In this day of government paranoia it is no wonder we have the highest
incarceration rate in the world. Have the terrorists won? They diminished our
freedoms knowing the mentality of the government leaders who lack self
knowledge. The President of Iran knows the politics of America better than most
Americans.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

D’oh! Play explosive could’ve detonated a tragedy with pranks gone wild
By Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald
Sunday, September 23, 2007
http://www.bostonherald.com

“What was the Play-Doh all about?”

The state cop who posed the question was not on duty at Logan International
Airport on Friday morning when his colleagues trained their machine guns on Star
Anna Simpson, a 19-year-old goofball genius from MIT.

But his intimate knowledge of Logan’s fail-safe procedures left him more
disturbed by the Play-Doh than the circuit board or blinking lights fastened to
the front of the sophomore’s sweatshirt.

“You train for hours and hours,” the cop explained, “you train against the
possibility of numerous (explosive) devices. And when it comes to preparing for
plastic explosives, what we use to simulate C-4 is Play-Doh. It’s the same
texture.

“That’s one of the things that amazes me about this incident,” he said. “Bad
enough she decides to walk into the same airport where two sets of terrorists
boarded two separate jets and flew them into New York’s two tallest buildings,
with wires attached to a battery and a circuit board.

“Even if she says the board, the blinking (LED) lights and the battery were only
art,” the cop said, “what was the Play-Doh all about? Of all the things she
could have been holding in her hand, she walks in with a hunk of Play-Doh? What
did she think was going to happen?”

It’s true that geniuses often come in wildly eccentric packages. Still, it’s one
thing for Star Simpson, a beguiling tinkerer from Hawaii, to make a fashion
statement during MIT’s career fair by accenting a black sweatshirt with a 9-volt
battery attached to a circuit board.

And it’s quite another to wear that sweatshirt into Terminal C at Logan Airport
while holding a hunk of Play-Doh. She went there to pick up her boyfriend,
another electrical engineering genius, who was flying in from California.

But did Simpson also go to Logan in search of a YouTube moment, not unlike the
one created a few days earlier at the University of Florida by unctuous
self-promoter Andrew “Don’t Tase me, bro” Meyer?

There was nothing stupid about what Andrew Meyer did during a
question-and-answer session with Sen. John Kerry. The solo riot he generated
with a bunch of campus cops was little more than a shameless attempt to show how
easy it is these days to grab 15 minutes of cheap fame.

Indeed, less than a day after Meyer quite deliberately asked a friend to video
the moment when he essentially begged campus cops to zap him, more than 400,000
suckers were clicking on this fool.

Today, you can buy several types of “Don’t Tase Me, Bro,” T-shirts on the Web.

I don’t know if Simpson’s journey to Logan on Friday was quite as calculating.
On the other hand, I can’t buy the pixie genius defense her court-appointed
lawyer used at her arraignment in East Boston on Friday.

Simpson was a freshman at MIT last year when a couple of freelance bozos,
looking to make a few extra bucks, sent this city into Def-Con 4 with a handful
of cartoon circuit boards that gave everyone the finger.

Sure, maybe we weren’t hip enough to appreciate a little guerrilla marketing.
But that doesn’t matter, because the city still got the last laugh with a $2
million apology from Turner Classic Movies for our frayed nerves.

Maybe Star Anna Simpson thought she could saunter through Logan and return to
Cambridge with a helluva tale about how no one said a word to her. Or maybe she
thought a half-dozen machine guns would do wonders for her Web site profile.

“A couple of things struck me,” the state cop said, “I thought about what a
burst of machine gun fire might do to other people in the area. And then, of
course, if it had been a real device, what those bullets would have done to
everyone after the explosion.”
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