# Mass Shooting - UNLV campus - shooter deceased \[12/6/2023\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197 "2023-12-06T20:49:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/1 "2023-12-06T20:49:49Z")
> **[Multiple victims reported in active shooting at UNLV, shooter is dead](https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-police-respond-to-reports-of-active-shooter-on-unlv-campus)** > > The Las Vegas Police Department is currently investgiating Not a whole lot of info available yet, but apparently the shooter has been ‘neutralized.’ And this is after a multiple shooting, yesterday, in Texas: > **[6 killed and 3 injured in a series of attacks across 2 Texas communities,...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooting-spree-texas-austin-san-antonio-rcna128283)** > > A suspect was arrested after he crashed his vehicle while speeding away from a shootout with a police officer Tuesday night, said Interim Austin Police Chief Robin Henderson. Is this latter story worthy of its own thread? Sigh. #Murica!! “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” –The Onion ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/2 "2023-12-06T21:41:11Z")
I think everyone’s speechless. I’m too sad to write more. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/3 "2023-12-06T22:32:18Z")
> [@Eric1](#): > > I’m too sad to write more. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/4 "2023-12-06T22:42:44Z")
This happened on the 34th anniversary of Canada’s second-most deadliest mass shooting - the “Ecole Polytechnique massacre” in which 14 women died. [École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre) ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/5 "2023-12-06T23:09:16Z")
Mark it’s interesting to read about the development of Poly SeSouviant after the shooting. I was only reading about Wikipedia but saw how it’s a challenge to get gun control in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/6 "2023-12-07T00:48:33Z")
> Three people were killed in a shooting at the University of Nevada, [Las Vegas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/las-vegas) (UNLV) campus on Wednesday, according to police officials, who confirmed that the suspect was also dead. > > A fourth victim was critically wounded in the attack, which took place at approximately 11.45am local time, the Las Vegas metro police department [said](https://twitter.com/LVMPD/status/1732545901737148527). > **[Three people killed and one critically wounded in Las Vegas university shooting](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/las-vegas-shooting-unlv)** > > Police confirm suspected shooter at campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, ‘has been located and is deceased’ ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/7 "2023-12-07T13:35:06Z")
A very surprising (to me) killer: > **[Vegas shooter who killed 3 was a professor who recently applied for a job at...](https://apnews.com/article/campus-shooting-las-vegas-unlv-0b12656a801e227d6aa2b9ccee56d9f6)** > > The gunman was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school, a law enforcement official told the AP. > **[Suspect in Las Vegas university shooting named as college professor](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/07/las-vegas-university-shooting-suspect-named-college-porfessor)** > > Anthony Polito, 67, who died at scene of shooting that left three dead and one critically wounded, had unsuccessfully sought job I would have guessed that he would have been 40 years or so younger than his 67 year age. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/8 "2023-12-07T13:43:18Z")
Dementia? “Professor” meaning “once taught and was fired from an adjunct instructor gig”? More details to come, I’d imagine. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/9 "2023-12-07T14:04:49Z")
Okay, I’ve looked at his CV. It’s weird–quite extensive until you notice that nowhere does he state that he’s an associate professor (as he represented himself elsewhere), or even state his employer and title explicitly. There’s a list of classes taught that includes the previous universities, but no indication of his status there. I’m not saying he wasn’t an associate professor, but neither can I see that he was. The vita also lists every reference letter he wrote (by name) and every reference phone interview. In addition to this being a potential FERPA violation, it’s really odd. I’ve reviewed hundreds of academic job applications and never seen anyone do this. Arguably, I was in different academic disciplines than he was, but it seems strange to me; at the least, it seems like resume padding. Mostly, though, it looks like the CVs of people who were misrepresenting themselves. Again, it could be a different academic culture, but my first impression is that I’d have red-flagged a job application. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/10 "2023-12-07T15:49:07Z")
We had a professor in Canada who shot and killed four colleagues, back in 1992. He was diagnosed with extreme paranoia, but was found competent (just barely) to stand trial. Convicted by the jury and serving a life sentence. > **[Valery Fabrikant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Fabrikant)** > > Valery Iosifovich Fabrikant (Russian: Валерий Иосифович Фабрикант, Belarusian: Валеры Іосіфавіч Фабрыкант, romanized: Valery Iosifavič Fabrykant, \[vɐˈɫɛrɪj ˈjosifəvɪt͡ɕ fɐbrʲɪˈkant\]; born 28 January 1940) is a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 24 August 1992, after years of increasingly disruptive behaviour at the university, he shot and killed four colleagues and wounded one staff member. > His case stimulated much researc... ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/11 "2023-12-07T21:22:19Z")
Fuck the LVMPD…& any other public safety agency that thinks it’s acceptable to _only_ put out public safety messages on some social social media channel, with third-party companies with their own T&C & that people may not use for one reason or another. It’s fairly easy to setup software, today, on a non-crisis day to put public safety messages on multiple places, including your website so that they go to FB, X & your website all at once. Not everyone uses FB or ~~Twitter~~ X. I both googled “twitter & LVPD” & went to their website & clicked on the link for X; both take you to the exact same place, tweets about the mass shooting…on Oct 2, 2017; IOW, it doesn’t look like they tweeting anything yesterday but I did see direct links to tweets that they did put out. I wasn’t at UNLV, in Lost Wages, in NV, or even in that time zone but you’d have to think that there might be people on campus on any given day that are there for a meeting, conference or to take a tour, IOW that aren’t there regularly & wouldn’t follow you in advance of something happening. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-unlv-campus-shooter-deceased-12-6-2023/994197/12 "2023-12-07T21:46:19Z")
> **[UNLV shooting: All 4 victims shot identified as faculty members, university says](https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/unlv-shooting-all-4-victims-shot-identified-faculty-members-university-says/EQVVFTFTX5GRVJD4X6BA25MK3U/)** > > “Yesterday was the most difficult day in the history of our university." So one wonders if these faculty were involved in the decision to not hire Mr. Polito?