<p>Connecticut papers are reporting that suspect has turned himself in to Meriden police (that’s the next town over). Hopefully this is true.</p>
<p>Police: Wesleyan U. slaying suspect in custody</p>
<p>it’s true. thank god noone else was hurt. my heart goes out to Johanna’s family.</p>
<p>What a nightmare for this poor girl’s family. I can’t even imagine the pain. I’m glad the shooter is now in custody, though. Does anyone know if he has a history of mental illness?</p>
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<p>I don’t understand men like this. Never have, never will.</p>
<p>He’s turned himself in to police and is being held on a very high bond. That must be a great relief to the Wesleyan community, but just the beginning of so much heartache for the young woman’s family.</p>
<p>We need to take stalking and harrassment a lot more seriously. It can’t be “we can’t do anything until the stalker has done something.” As a parent who has a daughter that was harrassed last summer, I was told by friends and a few CC’ers that I was over reacting and too protective. I think we need to take our kids seriously when they feel threatened. </p>
<p>This is a shame. It’s really a waste of perfect life. I couldn’t imagine what the family is going through. The love and effort it took for us to raise our kids to adulthood, and to have a senseless person take your child’s life for no good reason is beyond awful.</p>
<p>oldfort–I agree. We need to show our kids we take stalking seriously and be sure to tell us about such things.</p>
<p>sadly this young woman did file a complaint, he left NY after she did. her family knew the name of her stalker so she apparently, wisely had told her family. may she rest in peace…</p>
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<p>I’m so grateful to the sister for doing what was right instead of taking the blinkers and blinders approach. She just might have saved some lives. My heart goes out to the victim and Wesleyan students.</p>
<p>There is a long time CC’er told me that they actually had to relocate their daughter to get her out of harms way. It was a lot of time, money and effort for them to make it happen. She gave me a lot of good pointers on dos and don’ts. I think we, as parents, should be more educated on what to do to protect our adult children.</p>
<p>At my daughter’s school, anyone could get on the website to search for a student’s local information (cell, dorm, email). They should make it a policy to only share it with current staff and students through a secured sign on.</p>
<p>that’s concerning for anyone to have access to a student’s dorm location etc. will check my s and d’s schools to see if its done there…</p>
<p>I don’t think it was an accident that Morgan chose “Spring Fling Day” (day after classes end) to kill Johanna. He may have wanted the Wes community to be outside, as he reportedly was planning to come to campus to continue his rampage.</p>
<p>When this unfolds, I want to understand how this person obtained a gun.</p>
<p>^Why would he have any difficulty? Harassment charges were not pursued, and his only other legal problems were speeding tickets.</p>
<p>This is sickening. I can only imagine what her family is going through. Thank God the planned massacre did not take place.</p>
<p>Horrible.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/nyregion/09wesleyan.html?hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/nyregion/09wesleyan.html?hp</a></p>
<p>From Prep School to Murder Suspect at Wesleyan</p>
<p>By SERGE F. KOVALESKI and ALISON LEIGH COWAN
Published: May 8, 2009</p>
<p>Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Stephen P. Morgan left his family’s home in Marblehead, Mass., saying goodbye to his father, who thought that his son was moving to Rhode Island to start life anew.</p>
<p>Mr. Morgan had cleared out almost all of his belongings from the guest bedroom, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. But he left behind a few things, including a full box of ammunition and an empty handgun holster.</p>
<p>By morning, he was in Middletown, Conn., jotting down a new journal entry in a composition book he carried. The warrant said he made a reference to seeing all the beautiful and smart people at Wesleyan University before writing, “I think it okay to kill Jews, and go on a killing spree at this school.” And this: “Kill Johanna. She must die.”</p>
<p>About two hours later, Susan Gerdhart was reaching into her purse to pay for a salad at the Red and Black bookstore cafe when she heard four loud pops. She turned around and saw smoke in the air and bullet casings on the ground and a gunman squeeze off three more rounds. The woman who had been serving her, a 21-year-old Wesleyan junior named Johanna Justin-Jinich, was no longer standing there: she was on the floor moaning, dying from her wounds.</p>
<p>As Mr. Morgan, 29, was brought into a Middletown courtroom Friday to answer to a murder that virtually paralyzed an elite college and a Connecticut town, an incongruous portrait of his life and movements emerged through police documents, public records and interviews. He came from a large churchgoing family and a privileged upbringing in one of Boston’s nicer suburbs. He graduated from an elite Roman Catholic high school for boys before completing an unblemished four-year stint in the Navy.</p>
<p>But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled . . . .</p>
<p>[more at link]</p>