Kid Drives Car Through OU FIJI Fence, Shoots Up Fraternity House, Turns Gun On Himself
Bullets sprayed outside the University of Oklahoma Phi Gamma Delta house last night around 11 p.m. by an unnamed suspect who drove his car through the fraternity’s back fence before unloading rounds at the chapter’s mansion and up into the air. No FIJI brothers were harmed during this bizarre incident, but police unfortunately found the shooter dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound on the lawn of a nearby house.
We’ve received multiple tips that have alluded to the gunman being a scorned freshman rushee, but little has been confirmed about his identity or motive behind the shooting. Regardless of what may or may not have led up to last night’s events, it’s always a tragedy to see a clearly unstable youngin’ resort to violence and ultimately take his own life rather than get the help he needs.
If this was in fact a dude that felt slighted about not getting a bid or the way rush went as a whole, it should serve as a reminder to all of Greek life that we really have no idea what’s going through a stranger’s head or the personal demons they may be dealing with on a daily basis. And guess what most rushees are? That’s right. Total strangers. So when you invite these guys out to the house or a recruitment event, keep that in mind and be careful. Obviously most kids aren’t going to be a fit for your organization, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be respectful when you inform them that it’s time to move on. Just be a decent human being. It’s not that hard.
Our thoughts here at TFM go out to the suspect’s family and we’re extremely glad to hear no OU FIJIs were injured. P!.
[via News 9]
Can’t think of anything appropriate. Honest to God, what is this world coming to?
9 years ago at 12:12 pmNo pardon jokes for this article, what this man did is absolutely terrible.
9 years ago at 12:14 pmHonestly, didn’t hear anything on the news about this. No news alert update or anything. Maybe I missed it. Either way, this should get more media attention than its getting.
9 years ago at 12:16 pmI mean it should, but there was a terrorist attack in London yesterday. Most news outlets are more focused on that.
9 years ago at 12:20 pmWhat a dumbfuck.
9 years ago at 12:17 pmDude…come on
9 years ago at 12:45 pmThe guy who shot up the house is a dumbfuck…Something wrong?
9 years ago at 12:51 pmFor a 17-19yr old kid to be so far gone indicates a lot of ongoing mental health issues. No one else was hurt and the kid committed suicide. Try to have an ounce of compassion bro
9 years ago at 12:54 pmShow some compassion for a guy that attempts to shoot other innocent people? No thanks.
9 years ago at 2:09 pmI don’t sympathize for terrorists.
9 years ago at 2:20 pmcompassion for his grieving family numbnuts
9 years ago at 2:23 pmHe implied compassion for the kid. Take your bleeding heart bullshit elsewhere.
9 years ago at 3:53 pmMental disturbance takes many forms and can lead people to do many things.
By your logic if someone went to war and suffered PTSD, then turned around and harmed someone we should not empathize with them. It’s impossible to know what goes on in someone’s head when their psyche is damaged as it’s such a vulnerable thing. We can both be against what someone does and try to see that they are a victim of something.
In this case it’s fortunate no one else was hurt but a set of parents lost their kid, someone lost a brother, friend, cousin etc.
9 years ago at 2:25 pmPTSD and as well as other psychiatric disorders are the most controversial diagnoses, so keep coming at me with testimonial knowledge you’re vomiting out. Is he a war veteran? NO. He shot up a fraternity house and killed himself. He’s both selfish to his family and everyone in relation to people who lived in the house he shot up.
9 years ago at 3:29 pmJust so you know, PTSD is not solely related to combat – as someone whose deployed and is deployed – I know guys w my unit that suffer worse PTSD from our motorcycle wrecks than we do a deployment. Careful to throw around PTSD in this scenario. And PTSD is not controversial – and that Sir is empirical .
9 years ago at 4:02 pmUsed it as an example, didn’t say the kid had seen combat. Also being that I just finished the neuro/psych block in Med school this PST December I can tell you there are established changes in the neurobiology of people with different psychiatric illnesses. They are certainly not “controversial” diagnoses.
That kind of matter-of-fact statement from someone totally ignorant to what they are saying is emblematic of a lot of shit wrong with society. The premise of what I said from the beginning is that what he attempted to do was horrible but clearly we are dealing with someone who didn’t get help when they obviously needed it. Had the kid been helped he could have become a productive member of society and lived a long life
9 years ago at 5:20 pmAnd you’re a classic psych101 know-it-all. Others exist with that same problem, bud, yet there’s no neurological variance to show for it. You’re not an expert in the field; and as a true student with a scientific approach, you can only yield to the current theories. And currently, neurobiological changes are requisite for all psychiatric disorders and disturbances. Back on the psych101 issue, read up on the old nature vs nurture debacle. I’ll give you a hint: they’re both true, genetic developments and environmental factors!
9 years ago at 7:39 pmGoddamnit, give us an edit button.
9 years ago at 7:40 pm*are not requisite
@JFratsby you’re still coming at me with testimonials, dickfuck. Throw me a clean piece of research that shows PTSD being a TESTABLE diagnosis. The DSM-5 sure doesn’t, it gives CRITERIA based on OBSERVATION in order to make a possible diagnosis.
9 years ago at 10:11 pmHere I’ll do him a solid and provide one for you. http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/14197
9 years ago at 12:39 pmBut the illness does not recuse the doer from the actions. Had he injured someone or worse, the families of those affected won’t care what his disorder was-and there is no evidence yet that reflecting it wasn’t a crime of passion. An emotional response to stimuli such as ‘not receiving a bid. However, I realize the suicidal ideation and ultimate completion of is cause for an investigation.
9 years ago at 2:59 pmYou are an ignorant fool.
9 years ago at 12:51 amJust to shed some light into your pea sized brain. Mental disorders physically affect the brain chemistry of individuals. Without getting into the science basically people with mental disorders do not receive as many impulses as a normal person does which affects the brain in a way that can make them anxious, depressed, etc. So processing of different situations is sometimes corrupted and they can’t do a damn thing about it because it’s their brain. What this kid did was awful but why don’t you educate yourself before you make a fucking idiotic remark you stupid bitch. You think someone who is mentally stable would do this? Fuck you
9 years ago at 12:30 pmStress disorders and dissociative disorders are a coping response to traumatic events not fucking alters in brain chemistry. I’m quite educated, thank you. Go fuck yourself while I hold tight to my beliefs. I don’t give a fuck about yours till you provide me evidence of a testable diagnosis versus the brains coping strategies.
9 years ago at 12:56 pmYou sir are an absolute moron. You can see brain lesions clearly on MRI and research using the Lempel-Ziv complexity has quantified changes in people with schizophrenia for example but you refuse to listen to anyone so you can “hold on to your beliefs”.
Read some literature and educate yourself or don’t comment on things you have a rudimentary understanding of.
9 years ago at 1:09 pmMental health issues are no joke. Don’t try to make them one. Glad to hear though that he wasn’t able to harm anyone else. The title had me freaked out.
9 years ago at 12:20 pmAgreed. Mental health is one of the most overlooked/underfunded health issues in this country.
9 years ago at 1:10 pmAlso not even understood by the general public. Money needs to be allocated not only to treatment but for research and mental health education
9 years ago at 1:20 pmFurthermore, if you or a friend is struggling, chances are your school offers free counseling. Use it, no matter how much you tell yourself it’s not a big deal.
9 years ago at 2:19 pmAs for your fraternity, if a brother is clearly overwhelmed, require he attend counseling, else he’s barred from social function. This likely saved my pledge brother from a destructive alcoholic path that would have ended his collegiate and military career.
I will literally walk to work in a major downtown city and see 2-3 clearly mentally unstable people, most likely homeless, sometimes yelling or talking to the sky, etc. Point being, something is clearly wrong and the day something goes wrong people will say “it was so obvious”. If these people were bleeding, we’d say we need to get them help immediately! But the fact it is a mental issue clearly going on, people look at the ground – myself included – and walk by.
9 years ago at 1:57 pmAlso back in the day there were places and treatment for people who need help, now its all pills and halfway houses and it’s very sad and innocent people have to pay.
9 years ago at 2:29 pmMental health treatment has made a lot of progress over the past 50 years. Not sure what you mean about treatments being superior back in the day. I agree that it can still be improved though
9 years ago at 6:08 pmwhat he means is, the government stopped funding it. mental health treatment is great now if you have 150 dollars an hour or more. My health insurance allowed me to pay 90 dollars per session.
9 years ago at 10:20 pmyeah the cost sucks but its expensive as hell to train psychiatrists
9 years ago at 12:57 amGlad to hear all the FIJIs are safe
9 years ago at 12:39 pmIt almost sounds like hes trying to blame the fijis for provoking the mental health issues. I give dan the benefit of the doubt that he didnt intend for it to sound like that. Its just hows its worded
9 years ago at 8:26 pmThis is what Grand Theft Auto has done to the world.
9 years ago at 12:49 pmYou are incorrect.
9 years ago at 7:19 pmThat’s not how it works.
9 years ago at 1:10 pmThe University did not even send out an emergency alert. FIJI is less than a quarter mile from the dorms at OU.
9 years ago at 12:51 pmFrat lives fucking matter
9 years ago at 5:18 pmI worded this terribly, lacing up
9 years ago at 12:16 amNot at OU, remember? Football players who beat women (and remember Westbrook did it twice actually) are whose lives matter.
9 years ago at 12:43 amQuality Meme
9 years ago at 1:16 pmI thought this was a satire article until I saw the source at the bottom
9 years ago at 1:30 pm