Dartmouth Student Killed in Berkeley!

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<p>This is so, so sad !!!
A video feed from KRON-TV in San Francisco…
A 19 year old Dartmouth University student, home for the summer in Berkeley, is dead after an early Sunday morning shooting.
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<p>Ivy League student, 19, dies at shooting near Berkeley campus
An Ivy League student who championed social justice and aid for underserved communities was shot and killed early Sunday near the University of California, Berkeley, campus, police said. Meleia Willis-Starbuck, 19, was pronounced dead at 2 a.m. from a single gunshot wound, police and coroner’s officials said. “A kid comes out here to do good and they are shot — this is terrible,” said Lauren Schwartz, a Dartmouth graduate who was set to mentor Willis-Starbuck this summer.
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<p>College student gunned down in Berkeley
The shooting death of a promising Ivy League student just a few blocks from UC Berkeley has shaken the south campus neighborhood and surprised police. Meleia Willis-Starbuck, 19, was gunned down early Sunday morning while chatting with friends outside her apartment, according to police. The Berkeley High graduate had just finished her second year at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on scholarship.
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<p>I, too, just saw this on the news. Terrible. The city is in shock. Her apartment is right in the heart of the student area, across the street from a dorm. Many, many people knew her at Berkeley High, where she was politically active, and she apparently was on scholarship at Dartmouth. By all accounts a warm, bright, and talented kid with a big future.</p>

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<p>Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 - Intern Profile
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center - Berkeley, California
<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dpcs/4undergrads/profiles05x/mstarbuck.html[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dpcs/4undergrads/profiles05x/mstarbuck.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It’s beyond words…</p>

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<p>D received the message via blitz earlier this evening from one of their classmates and is just heartbroken as Meleia was of her friends and D said a truly wonderful person. The news of her death is a shock to the Dartmouth community especially to the 07’s. </p>

<p>She opted out of sophmore summer to work on this project because it was something that she truly believed in.</p>

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<p>This is unbelievably sad.</p>

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<p>yeah, it’s pretty unreal since i friended her on facebook (was into her interests, too) and she friended me back just a week ago… and now she’s gone and i will never get to know her personally (i’m a 09). not in this life anyway. it’s heartbreaking.</p>

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<p>Meiea’s friend arrested…</p>

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<p>omgoodness, this certainly has not gotten any better :(</p>

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<p>The idea that she may have been killed by “friendly fire” is unreal, or maybe it’s too real. </p>

<p>Meiea appearantly was very loyal to the community she came from (the meaner streets of Berkeley) as she never forgot or disrespected the people she grew up with. Unfortunately, when she possibly called her “brother in spirit” for protection from the punks who were harassing her and her friends, he may have blindly shot off his “baretta” and then ran away like a punk!</p>

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