{"id":3473,"date":"2007-09-26T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gunman-wearing-bush-mask-arres.html"},"modified":"2007-09-26T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:27:00","slug":"gunman-wearing-bush-mask-arres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gunman-wearing-bush-mask-arres.html","title":{"rendered":"Gunman wearing Bush mask arrested at St. John’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

What in the world would possess a student to walk around in a mask with a gun<\/a>? Did he want to get caught?<\/p>\n

A gunman wearing a George Bush mask and toting a single-shot rifle was arrested at St. John’s University Wednesday afternoon thanks to the quick work of a police cadet, officials said. The incident triggered fear but no injuries on the Queens campus, and no gunshots were fired, police said.
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\nOfficers spent the afternoon scouring the campus, going building to building. Police also searched the Jackson Heights, Queens home of the 22-year-old suspect, identified by police as Omesh Hiraman, who appears to be a student.
\nPolice say an off-duty police cadet who attends St. John’s, Christopher Benson, 21, saw Hiraman walk past at approximately 2:30 p.m. wearing the mask and a black hoodie.
\nKimberly Forrest, 18, from Central Islip says she was on her way to Marillac Hall for a class, when she also “saw a guy walking in my direction wearing a white mask”.
\n“I thought it was strange that a person was wearing a hoodie and a mask”.
\nBenson noticed the suspect was carrying a black plastic bag with what appeared to be a rifle sticking out, and contacted police.
\nBenson followed Hiraman to Marillac Hall, police say, where a university guard who was responding to calls of a suspicious male grabbed the rifle from Hiraman after a struggle. The weapon was a Wolf, .50 caliber breech-loading black powder rifle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to say it’s going to be really difficult to let my baby go to college in a couple years. I think I’m going to be pushing for Rutgers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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