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Perpetrators and Motives [Edit Source | Edit Beta]
Lu Gang
The shooter was 28 years old (surnamed Lu; English: Lu Gang Lú Gāng), [1] former graduate student of the University of Iowa. Lu, a student majoring in physics and astronomy, received his doctorate in Peking University in May 2005. The topic of his thesis is to study the effect of "critical ionization velocity" by particle simulation. After graduation, he still lives in Iowa City.
As a graduate student, Lu Gang is basically an unsociable person. At least one graduate student thinks that if challenged, he will have psychological problems. It is reported that he will be furious. [2][3] In the months before the shooting, Lu wrote five letters explaining why he planned to take action. According to university officials, four of the letters are in English and are intended to be sent to news organizations. A letter is written in Chinese. These letters have never been made public.
Lu was very angry because his paper didn't win the prestigious Spuri Stebach Paper Award of Washington University. The prize includes a prize of $2,500. Lu Gang thinks that winning this prize will make it easier for him to be hired as a professor.
Due to the economic recession, Lu can't find a job. Usually, in this case, the departments of physics and astronomy will give Lu a temporary postdoctoral scholarship. Unfortunately, there is not enough money to support him.
Shoot [Edit Source | Edit Beta]
1 1 month 1 Friday, Lu Gang attended a theoretical space plasma physics research group meeting in a conference room on the third floor of Van Allen Hall. A few minutes after the meeting began, Lu shot three participants with a.38 caliber revolver, and then went to the second floor to shoot him in the office of the dean. [3]
Christoph K. Goertz, a professor of physics and astronomy, is the host of Dr. Lu's thesis and one of the outstanding space plasma physicists in the United States. Robert A. Smith, associate professor of physics and astronomy, is also a member of Lu's thesis defense committee. Waring Shan, a researcher in physics and astronomy, won the Spuri Lester Bach Prize. Shan was once Lu's roommate. Dwight R. Nicholson, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is a member of Lu's thesis defense committee.
After the shooting in the concert hall, Lu walked three blocks to Jessup Concert Hall. Lu asked to see T. Anne Cleary, the vice president in charge of academic affairs. She is the Ombudsman in the university. Lu had complained to her many times that he had not been nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature. Cleary was shot in the head and died in the hospital and clinic of the University of Iowa the next day. Miya Lo Dolfo-Siazon, a temporary student employee of the Complaints Office, was shot dead for unknown reasons. Rodolfo-Sioson survived, but he was paralyzed from the neck down. She died of inflammatory breast cancer in 2008. [4]
Hunter Rollins III, the president of the university, was another man in hit list, but he was watching the football match between Iowa and Ohio in Columbus, Ohio. Lu Gang was found in Room 203 of Jessup Hall, with a head wound. He died soon after the police arrived.
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