On Wednesday, a student in one of the dorms on Sac State attacked his roommate with a baseball bat and a knife. He died from his injuries at the hospital later. The attacker turned on police when they arrived, brandishing the knife, and after pepperballs didn't stop him, officers drew their weapons and shot him. He is still alive, and apparently conscious at this point, but wow...
You hear about these kinds of things, but when it happens so close to home, it somehow hits you differently. The student who was attacked was a History major, he struggled with a form of Autism, but had gotten to the point where he could be independent and living on his own. He was, by all accounts, a remarkable story of perseverence and success, and to have that taken all away from you is truly tragic. More details will be revealed in the coming days as the events surrounding this begin to come together into a more coherent story, I'm sure, but for now, its odd whenever I walk on campus and look across at the dorms where this took place.
How quickly life can be taken from us, how tenuous our continued existence is on this planet...
That just makes it all the more important that we live every day to its fullest potential, that we give everything we have, that we never stop trying.
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Wow, that is really terrible! Unfortunately, I feel as though I hear stories like this more and more often. A few years ago, when I was working at a museum on the south side of Chicago, I'd read about local teenagers attacking one another just to get their iPods or cell phones. This became a common, almost weekly event. It's really very sad.
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