Apparently a fire alarm that was triggered in a University of Central Florida dormitory led to the exposure of a former student about to be evicted who had acquired an arsenal of weapons and explosive devices that he planned to use to to carry out an attack on innocent people at the campus.
A former student at the University of Central Florida had amassed four explosive devices, two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition before killing himself in the dorm room from which he was soon to be evicted, police said Monday.
UCF Police Chief Richard Beary said writings found in the room indicated that the student, James Seevakumaran, 30, had planned an attack on the campus.
The police chief went on to say that Seevakumaran pointed a gun at a resident of the dorm after a fire alarm was pulled. That person called 911. Some time shortly after that, Seevakumaran shot himself. Police speculate that Seevakumaran himself pulled the fire alarm to get other residents to flee the dorm, but the rapid response of the police “threw off his timeline” and rather than be apprehended he chose to commit suicide as police responded to the 911 call.
Seevakumaran pulled a gun on another student, who then called police, said University of Central Florida Police Chief Richard Beary. He then killed himself with a shot to the head moments later as police officers were responding to the call.
“His timeline got off,” Beary said. “We think the rapid response of law enforcement may have changed his ability to think quickly on his feet.” […]
CBS affiliate WKMG reports that police found two guns in Seevakumaran’s dorm room, including an American-Tech tactical .22 caliber rifle. They were traced back to an Orlando guns store. Police also found four improvised explosive devices and hundreds of rounds of ammo were, according to Julie Torres of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
An American-Tech tactical .22 caliber rifle is very similar to an AR-15 .22 caliber rifle such as the one used in the Newtown shooting at Sandy Hook.
For what it’s worth, it wasn’t “good people with guns” who stopped him but an unarmed and nonaggressive–but brave–kid.
The narrative as it stands seems odd: former student plans mass murder, pulls fire alarm, points gun at fleeing student, student manages to call 911 and escape, former student kills himself, police attribute lack of casualties to their own rapid response time. Doesn’t make sense.
No it doesn’t. Could have been a “dry run” that he screwed up by being seen with a gun or could have been a cry for help to stop him from proceeding with his dreadful plan.
When I was a kid, a .22 was a squirrel gun. You could shoot rabbits or squirrels or other small game with it. Maybe a turkey if you got lucky.
But back then people who owned guns didn’t think they were the militia, going to save America from the tyranny of Social Security and Medicare.
Actually, that was before Medicare, now that I think of it.
In the autumn you could tell hunting season was coming from the smell of burning leaves everywhere.
Over this past weekend I spoke with a right-wing kinsman who lives in Maryland and was preparing his papers for his tax accountant.
He complained of the state’s “trillion dollar” budget that he only exaggerated by a factor of 100, and of its horrible new gun control measures that, he said, included some sort of bizarre rule that if you took a legally owned gun out of MD – say, to hunt in another state – you couldn’t bring it back in again.
He was furious about the offenses to the 2nd Amendment involved in the impending ten round magazine limit and assault rifle ban – my comment that while the 2nd does protect an individual right from federal infringement incorporation is a lot of hooey went right over his head, just as though I had not spoken – and predicted “something bad” will happen.
I think he meant it should.
The man is a suburban urbanite whose only gun is a pistol he rarely bothers to take to the range.
He scared me a little, to be honest.
Some people take their politics way too seriously.
Will the rapid response be credited to UCF having its own police force that is authorized to carry firearms? What weapons do UCF police carry when on patrol?
Always on about your “massacres” and “mass shootings” and whatnot, calling harmless semi-automatic rifles by the big, bad “assault weapons” and scaring the gullible rubes. There’s surely no iron-clad evidence that Mr. Seevakumaran was doing anything except enjoying his constitutional rights under the Second Amendment to the fullest. Those alleged “writings” were probably for a class or something. And while it wasn’t totally cool for him to pull a gun on another student, this was in Florida, and Mr. Seevakumaran may have felt his “ground” needed to be “stood.”
Sit tight; I’ll have Sen. Cruz along in a few moments to explain it all to you.
His guns may or may not have been legally possessed, his motives might be subject to more investigation and questions.
However;
As a former US military EOD officer, I can unequivocally state no civilian ever has the right to possess explosive devices in their dorm room. That one sorta begs the question what the hell was he doing with them except on planning on breaking the law, you don’t hunt deer with an Improvised Explosive Device, and they suck as a home defence weapon unless you want lots of damage to your domicile.
In the EOD world, they are one of the worst things to come across.
Please have Mr Cruz explain that one also ….. if he can.