A mass shooting occurred at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) campus on Wednesday (December 6). The picture shows students gathering together that day. (Mingson Lau/Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, December 10, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Wang Liang) A shooting rampage occurred at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Wednesday (December 6), leaving four dead. (Including the gunman) One wound. Except for the gunman, the other four people were confirmed to be faculty members of the school. Police said the gunman entered the campus with a list of people he was looking for.
A gunman opened fire on campus on Wednesday, killing three faculty members and injuring a fourth, UNLV officials said, according to KLAS. The gunman died in a shootout with police.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified two of the three victims as associate professor Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang, 64, of Henderson, Nevada, and 39, of Las Vegas. Assistant Professor Patricia Navarro Velez.
According to comprehensive media reports, Chang is an associate professor in the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology at the school of business and has been teaching at UNLV since 2001.
He holds degrees from Taiwan, Central Michigan University and Texas A&M University, according to his online resume. He received his PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh.
According to the school’s website, Velez is an assistant professor of accounting, holds a PhD in accounting, and is currently engaged in research on network security disclosures and data analysis.
According to the coroner, Chang’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. Velez’s cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds.
The third person who died has been identified, but his name has not yet been released.
The coroner’s office is working to identify the deceased’s legal next of kin. The fourth seriously injured person, a 38-year-old man, is still receiving treatment in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
“On behalf of our office, we would like to express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and those affected by this tragic event,” the coroner’s office said in a statement.
According to reports, the gunman’s name was Tony Polito, a long-time business professor who had failed to apply for a job at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
Sheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators were still working to determine the shooter’s motive, but it did not appear he was targeting students. McMahill said he also brought a list of people he was looking for when he entered campus.
A gunman roamed UNLV’s Lee School of Business on Wednesday, opening fire just before noon on the fourth floor, home to faculty offices in the accounting and marketing departments, as terrified students and professors huddled in classrooms and classrooms, the Associated Press reported. In the dormitory.
According to a statement released Thursday by East Carolina University’s in North Carolina, Polito served as a professor of marketing and supply chain management at the school from 2001 to 2017. Resigned as a tenured associate professor in January.
Paul Whittington, one of Polito’s former students at East Carolina University, said Polito once gushed in class about his many trips to Las Vegas.
Whittington said Polito told his students that he went to Las Vegas twice a year, staying at different hotels and going to different clubs.
Whittington said Polito seemed obsessed with anonymous comments from students at the end of each semester. Whittington revealed that Polito once said in class that he could remember the faces of students who gave him bad reviews and that he was sure who they were and where they sat. ◇
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2023-12-09 17:09:17
