<p>If it can happen in sleepy little Gettysburg…How tragic.</p>
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<p>Sorry for the error in the title–I can’t seem to edit that line…</p>
<p>That is horrific! I am so sorry for this young woman and for her family and friends. </p>
<p>When people talk about how safe the area is where they may go to college, I think they think in terms of the particular town or city and nobody thinks that their classmates could be the one to bring them harm. </p>
<p>Very sad!!!</p>
<p>mini has often stressed that there is more danger from one’s fellow students than from a criminal in the surrounding community.</p>
<p>Domestic violence is incredibly pervasive, even college ‘kids’ deal with it! I’ll remember this family, both families–two families ripped apart by such pointless violence. Trying to imagine what this young man’s mom must be feeling. So, so sad~</p>
<p>I worked as a counselor at Gettysburg College in the early 70’s. This is very sad all around. It is a good school with a caring administration.</p>
<p>In majority of murders the killer and victim are close friends or family members. You are much more likley to be killed by your husband or wife than some random person on the street. This can really happen anywhere and I fell for the Gettysburg Community.</p>
<p>My D is a student at the college and was already home for Easter when the story broke. She was not close friends with the victim, but did know her and said she was a gentle soul. It’s a tragedy for her family and all who knew her.</p>
<p>This is so sad. My s has a good friend at Gettysburg. librarymom-- my condolences to your dau and the Gettysburg community</p>
<p>Domestic violence can hit anywhere. I guy I vaguely know from MIT was stabbed by his ex-girlfriend as he slept in his dorm room last year. Luckily, he had martial arts training and she didn’t actually know how to use a knife very well, and he survived.</p>
<p>My heart goes out to the family and friends of this young lady. Sympathies to the family of the young man too.</p>
<p>The same thing happened to a classmate of mine. It was terribly, terribly sad, and it reverberated for years in the college. The murderer – who of course was devastated and remorseful – had lots of friends, too, and was deeply involved in the university’s Catholic community. Many of those friends tried to help him – not to excuse him, of course, or justify him – and earned the bitter enmity of the victim’s family and close friends. It was all just awful, and nothing made up for the loss of a vibrant, talented, funny, messed-up 19 year-old person.</p>
<p>This happened in New Haven, where people obsess about the danger from street crime. I had two friends in college who were the victims of serious crime while we were students. The woman I refer to above, who was killed by her (recently) ex-boyfriend, and another women who was raped and left for dead while on a camping trip in the Shenandoah Mountains.</p>
<p>Alleged killer recently stopped taking Zoloft. Just can’t get over how sad this is.</p>
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<p>JHS, I knew the murder victim well, she lived in the same dorm as me in high school. She was a nice kid. I have to say I was pretty horrified how so many people rallied around the murderer.</p>
<p>Of all the colleges in the country, I would have expected Gettysburg to be one of those schools that never had a murder. Gettysburg is one of those small colleges where everyone seems happy and safe. This is all so sad.</p>