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Two hospitalized after shooting
Leonard Lai and Jill Abell
Issue date: 11/2/09 Section: News
Two people were hospitalized after a shooting took place at 2 a.m. Sunday at the corner of Seventh and San Salvador streets.
The shooting took place because of an altercation between two groups of people, said Officer Jermaine Thomas of the San Jose Police Department.
"There are currently no leads, but the suspects appear to be a group of five to eight black males," Thomas said. "The two victims suffered nonlethal injuries and are at local hospitals being treated right now."
Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations of SJSU, said university police officers heard the gunfire, found one male who had been shot and recovered the weapon.
This was the first time the text message alert system the campus uses has been used in an emergency, she said.
The text alert message is a system that allows students who sign up with it to receive text message alerts when campus emergencies happen, Harris said.
"It took a while to send out the message because officers were doing what they were supposed to be doing," Harris said. "Securing the scene and making sure people were OK come first."
She said the text was slow in being sent out because police determined that no one was in danger, and the text was sent in the middle of the night.
"We will review how the warning texting system worked out when we get together, and determine how to make it better," Harris said.
She said the campus will try to send a message out within the first 30 minutes.
"It sounds like a long time, but it's difficult to form cohesion of a picture of what is happening within 30 minutes," Harris said. "We need to send out a fast message, but not so fast where you will send out the wrong message before you get all the information."
Keenan Fry, a freshman civil engineering major, and Alex Gallegos, a freshman music major, said they were on the 10th floor of Joe West Hall when they heard the gunshots fired.
Fry said he heard four gunshots and turned around to see the last gunshot flash fired at 2 a.m. and what sounded like the shooters driving away afterwards.
The shooting took place because of an altercation between two groups of people, said Officer Jermaine Thomas of the San Jose Police Department.
"There are currently no leads, but the suspects appear to be a group of five to eight black males," Thomas said. "The two victims suffered nonlethal injuries and are at local hospitals being treated right now."
Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations of SJSU, said university police officers heard the gunfire, found one male who had been shot and recovered the weapon.
This was the first time the text message alert system the campus uses has been used in an emergency, she said.
The text alert message is a system that allows students who sign up with it to receive text message alerts when campus emergencies happen, Harris said.
"It took a while to send out the message because officers were doing what they were supposed to be doing," Harris said. "Securing the scene and making sure people were OK come first."
She said the text was slow in being sent out because police determined that no one was in danger, and the text was sent in the middle of the night.
"We will review how the warning texting system worked out when we get together, and determine how to make it better," Harris said.
She said the campus will try to send a message out within the first 30 minutes.
"It sounds like a long time, but it's difficult to form cohesion of a picture of what is happening within 30 minutes," Harris said. "We need to send out a fast message, but not so fast where you will send out the wrong message before you get all the information."
Keenan Fry, a freshman civil engineering major, and Alex Gallegos, a freshman music major, said they were on the 10th floor of Joe West Hall when they heard the gunshots fired.
Fry said he heard four gunshots and turned around to see the last gunshot flash fired at 2 a.m. and what sounded like the shooters driving away afterwards.
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DFS
posted 11/02/09 @ 8:50 AM PST
It's great that the new paging system is online but what the public would like to see their money go to is a more visible police presence. I live in the area of the shooting and have noticed a rapid decline in community policing in the area in the past 2 years. (Continued…)
Diane
posted 11/02/09 @ 1:33 PM PST
I live close to the corner where the incident took place and I was also concerned with the lack of police in the area on Halloween night.
Fra Sha
posted 11/02/09 @ 1:53 PM PST
Isn't the corner of 7th and San Salvador right across the street to the police station? Don't they have camera's out there? You would think it would be more safe the closer you are to the PD but I guess that is not the case in this matter. (Continued…)
wyattburp
posted 11/02/09 @ 8:19 PM PST
police staffing has not changed. they are out every night. i see them. the police cannot remove anyone from campus for simply not being a student. sjsu is a public facility and anyone can come onto campus. (Continued…)
Monica
posted 11/02/09 @ 10:38 PM PST
UPD needs to get out of the car and start patrolling more on foot. They need to get in touch with what's really going on in and around campus. This will happen when they have more of a physical presence. (Continued…)
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