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The full text of an SMS I received at 11:13am this morning:
Please check your campus e-mail for a message from the president about a homicide that occurred last night on S. Ellis Ave.
The text message was the first non-test output of an emergency response system put in place at the U. of C. after the Virginia Tech shootings. The email, from U. of C. president Robert Zimmerman, related these further details:
It is with the greatest possible sadness that I write to inform you of the tragic killing of one of our graduate students last night. Amadou Cisse, an international student completing his Ph.D. degree in chemistry, was shot and killed at 1:26 a.m. in the street near 6120 S. Ellis Ave. We are saddened and outraged by this terrible event, and our hearts go out to the student’s family, friends, colleagues and neighbors.
According to an article in today’s Tribune, Cisse was 28 29, a graduate student in chemistry from Senegal whose research examined atomic oxygen erosion. He successfully defended his dissertation last week, and was scheduled to receive his degree on December 7. The University will award his doctorate posthumously.
UPDATE (11/20/07):
