The Daily Collegian Gunman opens fire at UT Austin, kills self By Kelley Shannon ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER AUSTIN, Texas A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus before fleeing into a libraiy and fatally shooting him self. No one else was hurt. The shooting began near a foun tain in front of the UT Tower the site of one of the nation s dead liest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of peo ple. Within hours of Tuesday’s gun fire, the school issued an all-clear notice, but the university remained closed, and the area around the library was still consid ered a crime scene. “Our campus is safe, ' President Bill Powers said. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo expected the school to be "com pletely open and back to normal" by Wednesday morning. Authorities identified the gun man as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore math major. Police declined to speculate on his motive. Tooley s parents did not immediately respond to a mes sage left by The Associated Press. At his family’s home in Austin. Oman tries to secure release for Americans By Nasser Karimi ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TEHRAN, Iran A delegation from the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman is visiting Iran to try to secure the release of two American men imprisoned for more than a year and accused by Tehran of illegally crossing the border and spying, the U.S. State Department said 'Tuesday. Oman helped secure the Sept! 14 release of a third American. Sarah Shourd, who was arrested along with the men, Shane Bauer and Josh. Fallal, near the Iran- Iraq border in July 2009. Shourd denies Iran's allegations and says the three were just hiking through a scenic area of Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region during a vacation. Her release raised hopes that Oman an allv of both the tmmmm wiISI President, Federation for American Immigration Reform Enrique IVlorones 7:00 p.rrl Schwab A| pennState police investigators went in and out Tuesday afternoon carrying bags and boxes. There was no immediate word on what was in the containers. A neighbor said police arrived at the home about three hours after the campus shooting. The 50,000-student university had been on lockdown while offi cers with bomb-sniffing dogs car ried out a building-bv-building manhunt. After the gunfire, authorities searched for a possible second shooter, but they eventually con cluded the gunman acted alone. Confusion about the number of suspects arose because shots were fired in multiple locations, and officers received varying descriptions from witnesses, cam pus police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said. Before reaching the libraiy. the gunman apparently walked for several blocks wearing a me- ’; and dark clothing and currying an automatic weapon, witnesses said. Construction worker Ruben Cordoba said he was installing a fence on the roof of a three-si ore building near the library when he looked down and made eye on; tact with the suspect "I saw in his eyes he didn't care." Cordoba said Sarah Shourd, second left, and her mothi visit the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Gi of three American hikers detained by Iran United States and Temuri could help secure the two freedom as nvell. An Iranian news paper reported over the weekend that Omani officials were expect ed to visit Iran as early as Sunday and hoped to take the detainees home with them. In Washington. St me Department spokesman Rf Crowley gave the first official nor. lirmation that such a visit was taking place. Crowley said the State Department has received no word of any progress in the Omanis' discussions with Iranian officials, but he said the U.S. appreciates Oman's efforts. A Dan i Stein Founder, Border Angels 1. TODAY l Uditorium SCHREYER HONORS COLLEGE Co-sponsored by thte Presidential Leadership Academy and the Univen-.ity Park Allocation Committee The gunman continued down the street, tiring tnreo shoes toward a campus church. then changed direction and fired three more times into the air. Cmdoba sa id. A garbage truck drher leaped out of his vehicle and ran away, as did a woman carrying two babies, the construct toil work.']' sasd. 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Trevino said. ili' er.s were able vm's movements of students who iigh! diree- ■i.. jj' uTj a. e ehie.f said he inman ran into the r- dosed in on him. r it m the head on ;l i;i;ee did not fire vvecio said 8y Michael Rubinkam A former Mi'rn'S.i-’a. .inning for i', dropped his claim rv-ion from the •ve as a T-rcac-e for a convict- coking .■) casino license. Marino April radio inter- ors author a ruc-rence on a submitted by :< DeNaples - lanno's office • ui.ei ; 'oNrples was railed •hen the Associated ed Sept. 17 there was T.ition that Marino inU'h r from die Justice to vouch for vaithv northeast- businessman i mated in a ..si the gov- 11AM4PM Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 I In the middle-class Austin neighborhood where the Tooley family lives, the street was blocked off by yellow crime-scene tape Tuesday afternoon. Investigators were gathered in front of the home and could be seen coming out ol a neighbor's house. Powers credited the school's crisis-management plan and social networking for quickly warning students, faculty and stall. asserted that "the release of cer tain documents would end this matter" But Marino refused to produce the letter his campaign said he received, saving he was not authorized to release "docu ments related to my service as United States Attorney." Marino now says he never asked for permission because he didn't need it. He told The Daily Item of Sunbury in a story pub lished Tuesday that he was per muted to provide personal refer ences as long as he didn't use his job title or attempt to promote staffers. T did it all the time,' he said, according to the newspaper. Campaign spokesman Jason Fitzgerald on Tuesday confirmed Marino’s comments ir. the news paper. but refused to make the candidate available to the AE say ing his "schedule will not permit" an interview; Fitzgerald said the issue over whether Marino had authority had gone on "entirely too long." 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