The Stresses of Graduate School Ring Out… Like Gunshots
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Wow! File this one under “crime mapping.”
First there’s the DevSummit this week, then there’s this!
A University of Redlands graduate student could face felony charges after police said he fired gunshots from the steps outside an off-campus student apartment complex.
It wasn’t me.
On Thursday afternoon, police found a discarded .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun near Pioneer Avenue and Judson Street.
Police found more evidence inside [the student's] apartment, Sgt. Travis Martinez said.
Police responded to a call of shots being fired about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1100 block of Central Avenue.
Witnesses helped police find [the student's] residence near Central and Cook Street, part of a university-owned apartment complex for students, Martinez said.
[The student] was not home when police arrived, but police later found and arrested him, Martinez said.
It was unclear why [the student] fired the gun.
“We don’t believe he was firing at anybody or anything specific,” Martinez said.
[The student] faces either felony or misdemeanor charges, depending on which way county prosecutors lean.
It is a case known in legal terms as a “wobbler,” Martinez said.
[The student], who was working on his master’s degree in geographic information systems, withdrew Friday from the university, said Katie Ismael, university spokeswoman.
Who’d a thunk that I’d be living a life of danger?
For our program director’s sake, I’ll have to say this was an isolated incident and that we’re still a good program. This isn’t the ESRI Summer Camp and Women’s Prison.
So, what can I say about GIS and firearms? Well, let’s say, they don’t mix in most places. Although, we do have a student who works for the Redlands PD. Check out this cool video of him on a ride-along:
No, that’s not Chris Schmidt either.
(Thanks to to Dave Smith for pointing the article out… Who probably found it in his Google News search for “geographic information systems.”)
