Before the murder, Tadesse bought two knives and a length rope. When Trang told Sinedu she planned to live with another group of students the following year, Sinedu became despondent. During her sophomore and junior years, Sinedu shared a room with Trang Ho, a Vietnamese student who was popular and academically successful. She mailed a form letter to multiple strangers that she selected at random from the phone book, detailing her unhappiness and asking them for friendship. Unfortunately, Sinedu could not maintain her grades at college and made no friends. She was admitted to Harvard and planned to study medicine. To escape the violence of her environment and her difficulty making friends, she devoted herself to studying and eventually became valedictorian of her high school. Tadesse grew up in Ethiopia during a very turbulent period. Sinedu Tadesse was a junior at Harvard University until May 28, 1995, when she murdered her roommate and subsequently killed herself. Sinedu Tadesse Harvard Murder-Suicide, 1995 If I had a two-week waiting period for the gun, I wouldn't have done it." 7. Personally, I only had five days left of school before winter break. Obviously a waiting period would be great. I couldn't have rented a car to drive home from school, yet I could purchase a rifle. In an interview after his arrest, Lo stated: "The fact that I was able to buy a rifle in 15 minutes, that's absurd. Around 10 pm that evening, Lo opened fire on the campus of the school. That morning, Lo had in fact purchased a SKS semi-automatic rifle at Dave's Sporting Goods store. The Robinsons responded to the information by staying at the home of another school official, but no other steps were taken and police The night after the search, a student whom had recently had dinner with Lo called the school to report that Lo was armed with weapons and was planning on killing the Robinson family that evening. Students reported that Lo had been stockpiling ammunition in his room and school officials even intercepted a package containing 7.62 caliber ammunition, but after searching his room and questioning Lo, residence director Katherine Robinson decided that he probably did not have any weapons on campus (Lo said that the ammunition stockpiled in his room was a Christmas present for his father). He also wrote an essay stating that the way to decrease AIDS was to segregate homosexuals in the United States. While at the school, he presented himself as a hardened racist and openly spoke about his fascist beliefs. A gifted violinist and excellent student, Lo was accepted to Simon's Rock College of Bard in 1991. Wayne Lo is a Taiwanese-born American who shot and killed one student and professor and wounded four people at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington on December 14, 1992.
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