Every crime in Nigeria is reported on Nairaland giving people opportunity to label the country in every conceivable derogatory language imaginable. Yet Nigeria is a developing Nation with all the upheavals, uncertainties and set backs that this implies. America on the other hand is supposed to represent mankind's highest social and political standards and yet, like Nigeria, barley a month passes without some news of mass killing - if that's not putting it too strongly.

Using Nairaland standards of condemnation, if America is not a failed state, what is she, is she a failed Society?

Three killed in shooting near Texas campus






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Three people - a police officer, a civilian and a gunman - have died in a shooting near a university in the US state of Texas, police say.

Several others have been admitted to hospital after being wounded in the shooting in College Station city.

The attack happened within two streets of Texas A&M University at about 12:45 local time (17:45 GMT).

The college issued a warning to staff and students to avoid the area, saying a gunman was firing from inside a home.

It is not yet known if the gunman was a student at the university.

The policeman who died was serving an eviction notice when the suspect opened fire, local news station KBTX said.
'Senseless attack'

The officer has been identified as Constable Brian Bachmann. The names of the other victims are not yet known.

Hospital officials told local media five people had been admitted to the College Station Medical Center emergency room, including three people with gunshot wounds.

At a news conference in College Station, police said the three people injured were two police officers and a woman, who was undergoing surgery at a local hospital.

Assistant chief of police Scott McCollum said the gunman was shot before being taken into custody.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who studied at Texas A&M University, said in a tweet: "Thoughts & prayers are with those impacted by shootings near A&M. Ever thankful for officers who daily sacrifice to keep us from harm."

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement: "Senseless attacks by violent criminals have no place in the state of Texas."

The authorities have yet to establish a motive for the shooting.

A Texas A&M Univeristy spokeswoman told the Associated Press news agency that most students were not on campus on Monday, as the autumn term does not begin until later this month.

"It appeared to be fairly quiet," Sherylon Carroll said. "It didn't appear to be a lot of people out and about at that particular time."

[size=14pt]Maryland cannibalism suspect charged in earlier attack[/size]



BALTIMORE (AP) – A Maryland cannibalism suspect faces a more serious charge of attempted murder in a different attack at a Baltimore university dorm.




Alexander Kinyua, 21, already faced assault and reckless endangerment charges in the May attack at Morgan State University. But a Baltimore grand jury on Thursday indicted him on the more serious charges of first- and second-degree attempted murder and first- and second-degree assault. The state's attorney's office declined to comment on the indictment.

Joshua Ceasar said Kinyua hit him over the head with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and chains as he walked into Kinyua's campus apartment, knocking him out. Friends who followed a blood trail from the door to a back room told Ceasar they discovered Kinyua standing over him with a knife.

Days later, Ceasar learned Kinyua had told the Harford County Sheriff's investigators that he used a knife to kill and carve up Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, 37, before eating his heart and brain. Agyei-Kodie, a native of Ghana, had been staying at the Kinyua family's home for about six weeks when he disappeared May 25. Kinyua was charged with murder and assault in the killing.

Ceasar has said he believes Kinyua planned the same for him.

Attorney Richard Boucher, who represented Kinyua at a bail hearing in the assault, told the judge that Kinyua acted out of fear for his life when he hit Ceasar. Kinyua had told the attorney that Ceasar had told him he would have a gun the next time he saw him, he said. Ceasar denies this.

Some, including Ceasar and his attorney, have raised questions about whether the university should have looked more closely at Kinyua after a December outburst in a computer lab that led to his expulsion from the campus ROTC program and cryptic comments about "blood sacrifice" at a January university forum.

School spokesman Clinton Coleman has said the university is doing a "top-to-bottom" review, but so far it appears procedures were followed. Two campus officers visited Kinyua after the December outburst and he was assessed by the counseling center, Coleman said.

In early May, police received a report that a young man matching Kinyua's description was had a machete, but found nothing when they searched him and his room.
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