Friend charged in (gun) slaying blocks from UMF campus

[jpak]

http://www.kjonline.com/news/friend-chargedin-slaying-blocksfrom-umf-campus_2011-06-01.html

A Cape Elizabeth man was killed in a shooting Tuesday night in a Farmington apartment, just blocks from the University of Maine campus, and his friend has been charged with manslaughter.

Andrew Holland, 23, who graduated from UMF last month, was shot with his friend's handgun and died at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, according to state police.

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Ryan Ouimet, 23, of Coltsneck, N.J., who graduated from UMF last month, was arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection with the shooting.

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The three friends were inside the upstairs apartment when the handgun, owned by Ouimet, went off, McCausland said.

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[gejohnston]

1. it is still under investigation

and let me know when all of the facts come out.

[ileus]

2. guns kill college grads...

[PavePusher]

3. So, in other words....

this had nothing to do with a college or it's campus.

Did I get that correct?

[ManiacJoe]

4. Yes, you are correct.

[MyrnaLoy]

5. Yea

it onlys deals with the kids who attend college, you know the ones you want to bring guns even closer to campus.

[rl6214]

7. Close only counts in horseshoes and nuclear bombs

isn't that how it goes.

[MyrnaLoy]

8. you forgot shotguns

like the one that shot a kid in the face at WSU a few years back.

[rl6214]

9. Not familiar with it. Shotgun isn't very concealable

Was is on a campus? I guess with movies like The Matrix and the popularity after that movie of the long black coats anything is concealable. Didn't Dylan and Klebold wear long black coats or were infatuated with that movie? While I found that movie trilogy entertaining, I don't know that we will ever get past that sort of infatuation when cult followings spring up.

[MyrnaLoy]

11. yup

kid was playing with it in an apartment and shot it through the wall.

[PavePusher]

13. Columbine was wa-a-a-a-y before The Matrix.... n/t

[PavePusher]

12. Only in this case....

they had already graduated. Huh.

[rl6214]

6. Got that right

no matter how much people want to try to tie the two together.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. But, but, but....

...it was "just blocks away". There HAS to be a correlation.


Let's see...the one guy used to be a student and they were "close" to the campus. Yeah that's the ticket! ;)