May 1, 2008
Suicidal Man Takes Hostage at City College
Yesterday afternoon, a Brooklyn man was apprehended after threatening a City College student and holding what looked like a gun--but turned out to be a pellet gun--against the head of another student. The police convinced him to drop the gun and Kirk Hanley, 22, who had also pointed the gun at his own head, was found with suicide notes and taken to St. Luke's Roosevelt for observation.
The incident took place at City College's Harlem Campus. According to the Daily News, Hanley, a student, was rejected for a date and got into an argument with the 20-year-old female student. Frightened, she went to the financial aid office where she works, with Hanley following her, and a counselor called campus security.
When security arrived, Hanley grabbed another student in the waiting room, Elaishun Martin, who said, "He said if anybody moves he'll kill me." Another student witnessed Hanley repeating, "'I've been waiting 21 years. All I needed was help,'" while Hanley also allegedly said to the police, "I want to die like Sean Bell."
After calming Hanley down, the police took him to the hospital and charged him with criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, and kidnapping. Hanley's MySpace page lists his interests as "Video games, politics, tragedies," books like "Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Hannibal" and heroes like "Timothy McVeigh, Cho, Reb and V." And his about me blurb reads:
I'm a fatal error, the frankenstein of the 21st century, a godlike nonbeleiver, the product of a racist hypocritical world. I don't believe in racism because I pretty much hate everything that exist. To me life is nothing but a meaningless coincidence,every breath just brings us closer to death. I'm a lonely loner, but it was'nt a choice, this miserable existence has been forced upon me.Im incredibly sad and depressed because all my life i've received nothing but shit. Ive been laughed at for my my speech disorder, spit on (literally), humiliated, rejected, and isolated. I try to a good person but people constantly try there best to hurt me.I try my best to treat people with respect because thats how i wish to be treated.City College does have an emergency message system, but it's unclear if one was sent out yesterday.
|
'a Brooklyn was apprehended after threatening a City College student and holding what looked like a gun'
How many of these dangerous Brooklyns we have running around out there?
Those Brooklyns are such a menace.
"I try my best to treat people with respect because thats how i wish to be treated."
Those pesky Myspace About Me blurbs always come back to haunt you.
Was this guy a student of Leonard Jeffries? I have someone that works for me who is taking a class with him, and twice a week I have to do my best to douse the hateful and inflammatory BS that Jeffries spews. "Jews" this, "fags" that, "white people" this etc., etc. to the point where it sounds like the only individuals that deserve to live are black men. It is incredibly disgusting, and the worst thing is that it is making an impression on this perfectly bright and intelligent guy. I'm sure it has made an impression on hundreds, maybe thousands of people before him as well. How can it not? Jeffries has the stamp of approval from City College and is preaching directly to people at a time in their lives when they are most receptive to radical ideas, including ones of extreme hate.
CCNY DOES have a text message alert system, im signed up for it and NO ONE I know recieved a message yesterday. The news said that the school was on lockdown....where the hell was my message?!?
Video games! There's the culprit!
I can confirm - no one received any messages yesterday from the CUNY alert system. I only found out what happened when I asked a member of a news crew what was going on.
if he wanted to do the suicide by cop thing he should have just held a fake gun to a white girl's head a little farther downtown, like NYU.