Dr. Glenn Lipson has certain articles he has time to go through each week or every two weeks. This is his choice for October 22, 2015, in the L. A. Times.
“A knife-wielding masked man stabbed four people Thursday at a school in southern Sweden, killing one teacher and a student before being shot dead by police, authorities said. One student said he thought the attacker was in a Halloween costume.
Students fled from the Kronan school in Trollhattan, near Goteborg, Sweden’s second-largest city, as the attack took place in a nearby cafe just after 10 a.m., police said. The school has 400 students, ranging from pre-school to high school.
Police arrived to find one male teacher already dead and two male students — ages 11 and 15 — and another male teacher seriously wounded, police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said. One of the students and the attacker died later at the hospital, authorities said.
Police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker, a 21-year-old man from Trollhattan, Fuxborg said. The attacker’s motive was not known, he added.
The attacker had at least one large knife and possibly two, including what may have been a sword, according to another police spokesman, Stefan Gustavsson. He said authorities knew the attacker had killed the teacher because of the wounds he had. …”
By Glenn Lipson, PhD
October 28, 2015
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