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Moderator Xavier de Souza Briggs, who is an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, pointed to statistics illustrating the rise of minorities’ presence.
Briggs identified the gunman as Peter Odighizuwa, 43, a native of Nigeria who was estranged from his wife and four children, who also live in this town of 2400 nestled in the hilly coal fields of Virginia near the borders of Kentucky and West Virginia. The suspect, who had been...
"There were four bodies on the floor and bodily fluids seeping out on the floor," said Briggs, who arrived on the scene within minutes of the shootings. Briggs said the student shot the dean and the professor, then "executed" them as they lay on the floor. "He put the gun...
"Then he went down to a common area and started shooting at random," Briggs said. One female student was killed and three others were critically wounded before the gunman apparently ran out of bullets. Briggs told TIME that he supervised the evacuation of the victims to the emergency room at...
Briggs said four students wrestled the gunman to the ground as he ran from the building and held him until the police could arrive. Odighizuwa had come to see Briggs about a year ago, the doctor said, to discuss "emotional problems." Briggs said the suspect was a "time bomb waiting...