Tragedy on Berkeley campus
I would rather call the incident a tragedy. As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 17 issue, Christopher Nathen Elliot Travis was shot dead by a police officer at Berkeley's business school at the University of California. He was reportedly seen with a gun in an elevator and the matter was informed to the police by the authorities. When the police officers found him, moments later, in a nearby computer laboratory, he pointed the gun at them and then a police officer shot him.
Perhaps the police action was appropriate in terms of law, but I think Mr. Travis was not given any chance to explain himself. Later, from Travis' web page statement, it was revealed that he was mentally disturbed or suffering from frustration, as I believe. Travis wrote in the web page:
"My name is Chris Travis. I tried to kill myself when I was 5. ... I took 219 sleeping pills one day when I was 23". The web page said that the author wanted to get an internship in the United Nations and pursue a career in international business. "I want to learn more and do more to make this world better,” Travis hoped.
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