Gunman opens fire at Cleveland campus

(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio – Terror spread through Case Western Reserve University Friday afternoon when 62-year-old Biswanath Halder walked into the Peter B. Lewis building and started shooting.
Seven hours later one person was dead and two others were injured.
Around 4 p.m., Halder, a former employee and graduate of Case Western, entered the building wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying two semi-automatic weapons.
Seconds later he shot and killed Norman E. Wallace, a 30-year-old graduate student at the university.
After shooting Wallace, Halder proceeded to terrorize the rest of the building, shooting at anyone he could find.
“It was a real cat-and-mouse game. He moved from floor to floor, room to room,” said Edward Lohn, chief of the Cleveland Police Department.
Susan Helper, a 46-year-old economics professor at Case Western was fleeing to her office when she came face-to-face with Halder.
He shot at her, just as she was closing the door to her office. The bullet went through the door and grazed her sternum. Helper was not seriously injured by her encounter with Halder, but she was taken to Huron Hospital for treatment.
“Doctors told me I was very lucky. They told me closing the door on the bullet made a huge difference,” Helper said.
Argun Saatcioglu, a 32-year-old graduate at the university was also injured, when Halder shot him in the buttocks.
During the seven-hour siege the Cleveland SWAT team evacuated 93 people from the building. The hostages were separated into groups of 25 and put on buses. The buses took them to the Mather House where they were given bottled water, cheeseburgers and cookies.
Police are unsure of Halder’s motives for the shooting but suspect it had to do with his Web site being erased three years ago.
Halder had made several complaints to the Case Western, the Cleveland Police Department and the FBI after his Web site was erased by someone who hacked into the CWRU computer system. He claimed it was erased by Shawn Miller, a computer lab worker at the university, and Halder blamed the university for not taking any action against Miller. Halder tried to sue Miller, but the lawsuit was dismissed last year.
“The end result of all these evil actions will be that society will end up paying a severe price,” said Halder in a letter to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula.
At 11 p.m., seven hours after the chaos began, Halder calmly surrendered to police after they trapped him in a room. He had been shot in the shoulder. Police took him to Meridia Huron Hospital where he was treated and released on Saturday.
Charges will be filed against Halder Monday, according to the Cleveland Police Department.