Sun
Aug 11 2024
12:45 pm
Police are investigating an altercation between external contractors conducting maintenance at an unoccupied Vanderbilt University residence hall. At this point, police are reporting shots fired by at least two individuals and five people are now in custody. Two people have been transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
There is no ongoing threat to the university campus. The investigation is ongoing, and more details may be provided as they become available.
3 injured, 2 in custody after shooting reported at Vanderbilt dorm building
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Vanderbilt campus firearms policy
I wonder if campuses check outside contractors for weapons?
Vanderbilt Weapons Safekeeping
When this is what communities bring in, these are the results w
(in reply to jbr)
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These people are whack jobs advocating s total saturatiuon gun policy, the same policy Jacobs instituted with covid. Local children will die as a result of this current propaganda campaign, again. As a community, we have to decide just how many people we are willing to kill to institute Glenn Jacobs social policies.
Yikes! Would appreciate it if
(in reply to fischbobber)
Yikes! Would appreciate it if the area didn't attract so many gun 9wners.
Funny thing though......
(in reply to bizgrrl)
Anyone who has lived here over fifty years was always aware that everybody, or at least damn near everybody, was armed. What's changed is Jacobs screaming that everybody should wave their guns and harass the general population. People need to learn to keep their guns put up and to act like adults, like us boomers used to do.