For our third assigned blog our topic was a school shooting Mine was University of Iowa 1991 shooting. The University of Iowa Shooting at Iowa City, Iowa on November 1, 1991. The shooter was Gang Lu, 28 graduated from Iowa. In the shooting Gang Lu killed a total of 5 people and injured one other student and then he shot him self.
Gang Lu was from China. After he graduated he stayed in Iowa City. He known to be a loner and another graduate student was aware of his mental issues.Gang Lu was reported to have abusive tantrums. He wrote five letters four of them being in chinese and 1 in english, explaining his intentions.
Gang lu was at a meeting once the meeting began Lu pulled out a gun and shot four members of that department with a .38-caliber revolver.. After he shot those four he walked down to Jessup Hall. Lu shot her in the head, she died the next day. He also killed an employee at the grievance office for unknown reasons. He also paralyzed a girl from the neck down. After he shot these innocent people he shot himself in the head before the cops came and he died.To see my imformation click here. www.math.uiowa.edu/%7Ejlandgren/University%2520of%2520Iowa.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" id="irc_mi" height="393" width="590" />
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