Yipes!

Holy moly. Scandal here at Austin Peay!

Trish and I left to go to lunch yesterday around 11:30, and we noticed that one of the parking lots was crawling with police, complete with yellow "police line do not cross" tape! So, we figured either an accident or drugs. So, we go eat our lunch and run our errands, and come back and there's a flat bed tow truck taking a yellow jeep wrangler out of the parking lot, and there are even more cops buzzing around. Not just Austin Peay cops, real Clarksville ones. Trish called her husband, who is a fireman and hears the calls over the radio, but he hadn't heard anything. So, we walked in the building and were immediately ushered into the "big bosses" office, to find out that a student was found with a gun shot wound to the head! (no definitive answer as to whether it was self inflicted or not...) and that the guys girlfriend was in hysterics in the Student Affairs office, and that both of the offices were closed until further notice! Holy cow. I'm assuming it's a suicide, because if it were murder, I'm sure there would still be a crime scene and more police action. But my word. You know, sometimes we think our lives suck, and something like this happens. Nothing new this morning, but still I need to check the newspapers. Holy cow.