Yet another shooting. This time at Coastal Carolina University in SC

Coastal Carolina University officials confirmed that they have told students to stay where they are and that a person was hurt during a shooting near campus Tuesday evening.

The first reports of a shooting appeared on social media around 7:30 pm.

Source Article

The shooter is still at large. I wonder what his motivation will be revealed to be.

Sounds like a 'personal cause' assault, where the perp(s) attacks the victim(s) for a specific reason. As opposed to a 'random-rage' shooting where the perp tries to shoot everybody because he hates humanity.

reply to post by starviego


I guess we'll see what more develops

There was one today in Santa Cruz, CA too. He killed 3 cops before they killed him. They're still looking for some other people that were involved.

wow you mean someone killed someone else today?

Well there goes the neighborhood.

reply to post by GreenGlassDoor


Is there a link to it or a thread about it on ATS

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I don't think so. Still waiting to see what shakes out of it.

reply to post by GreenGlassDoor


Hey, Green, here's a news article about the Santa Cruz shooting.

Concerning the Santa Cruz shooting.

It appears that the perp still on the loose is the same peeping tom arrested for assault here: portlandtribune.net...

reply to post by LazarusTsiyr

Suspect at large

That's comforting. I wonder what the stats are on the increased shootings today in comparison to a few years back .. I mean, really, has the water been contaminated? It feels like a shooting pandemic spreading

reply to post by RooskiZombi


The only thing that has changed is the reporting. What was once a local news issue, now makes CNN. Granted, shootings at school campuses, like the CCU shooting, would have garnered a short segment on the networks. However, the Santa Cruz shooting never would have. (Correction - this would have always been a local news issue - one on one crime at student apartments - this didn't happen on campus.)

You would think we are living in the most violent times in this nation's history if you are a big fan of the network news organizations, however the numbers paint a much different picture. Violent crime is down 15.5% from 2007 alone. It has been in a steady decline since the early/mid 90's. Now, according to the FBI, preliminary reports of violent crime rose (1.9%) for the first time last year (Jan-Jun). Those are the most recent numbers, as preliminary July-Dec '12 or final '12 numbers aren't out yet, so anyone claiming otherwise is talking out of their backside.

I know there are some, especially our government and the media, that will fully disagree with those statements. After all why would the gov and media be making such a big deal about, if it weren't the case . . .

Feel free to check the numbers for yourself . . . straight from the FBI.
FBI Crime statistics
Comparitive Stats for the last 4 years - FBI

You'll see that even though violent crime seems to have rose the first half of 2012, murders/homicides were actually falling still.

So why the media push to glorify every shooting . . . ? Why the fear mongering?

(This paticular case involves one shooter and one victim . . . Yet from the title of the OP, "Yet another" and the fact that we are discussing what his motives are or even making a correlation to the Santa Cruz shooting, you would think we are talking about an epidemic. Not so, the Santa Cruz shooting was a direct result of LEO doing their job in trying to apprehend a criminal . . . he shot the officers. The CCU shooting looks to be the typical disagreement type (whether do to greed, jealousy, drunkeness, etc.), as most every one-on-one shootings are.)

I am bored and tired of hearing about all these shooting. Maybe, wonder if that was the plan?

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Hmmmm. Maybe. Interesting point!

Originally posted by starviego
Sounds like a 'personal cause' assault, where the perp(s) attacks the victim(s) for a specific reason. As opposed to a 'random-rage' shooting where the perp tries to shoot everybody because he hates humanity.

Could be a drug deal gone bad, over a girl, something not so random as columbine or aurora, Gabby Gibbs.. It is nothing of major concern, this situation is MUCH different then a massacre at random. Acting like *oh another shooting again in america take the guns take the guns" rhetoric is getting a little tiring.

One of my good friends goes there, went to go visit him about 2 years back and ended up going to the stripclub with Tyler Thigpen and bought us drinks.

He had a couple tweets about it also today, he still goes there.

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I lived near Coastal Carolina for a while, it's up in Myrtle Beach. Seriously...it's the biggest joke of a school, it's all parties and slackers, they might as well be at a tech. This kid probably got shot over a drunken fight, a girl, or drugs. It's not a "school shooting"...it's a case of one guy getting shot while at a dorm two miles from the school.

No disrespect, OP. I didn't post this response to sound snarky, I just know Coastal Carolina and the types that go there and hang around there so I figured I'd throw my two cents in.