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Stephen Alex Rane

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Report: Victim Had Raised Concerns About Alleged Shooter Dayvon Green

UMD police also found that Green had worked as a student aide for the department, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Stephen Rane, the 22-year-old University of Maryland student who was killed Tuesday when roommate Dayvon Maurice Green reportedly opened fire on his roommates, had previously expressed concerns about Green having a gun, The Baltimore Sun reports. The Sun quotes Drew Needham, a senior and former roommate of Rane, as saying that Rane felt "uncomfortable in the house" given Green's mental illness and ownership of a firearm. But Rane had not anticipated any violent behavior, Needham told the paper. The Sun also notes a surprising discovery by University of Maryland police: that Green had worked as a student aide for the department for a brief period last year. The role requires a background check but does not include access to weapons or …

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John Davisson

11:31 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Thanks for flagging that, Jay—it's fixed now.   more ›

Obituary: Stephen Alex Rane, 22

Rane died suddenly in College Park on Feb. 12, 2013.

Stephen Alex Rane, 22, died suddenly on February 12, 2013, in College Park, Maryland. Born June 18, 1990, in Lafayette, Indiana, he attended West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School and was a 2009 graduate of Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland. Stephen was a senior at the University of Maryland, majoring in English and Linguistics, at the time of his death. He is survived by his mother Karen Rane and stepfather Gerald Brust of Silver Spring, MD, his father Stanley Rane and stepmother Teresa Pena of Glen Mills, PA, sister Alison Rane and her husband Maxime Paquin of Chicago, and sister Noelia Rane of Glen Mills, PA. He is also survived by his grandmothers, Helen Klein of Frederick, MD, and Genevieve Rane of Philadelphia, and …

Pete Grosso

7:34 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Here is an innocent man gunned down by someone with known mental issues who goes out and purchases a rifle and handgun legally, and nothing needs to change? Come on, this needs to be stopped.   more ›

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

College Park Shooter Dayvon Maurice Green: What We Know

Sources described a likable engineering student with a strong academic record—and a mental illness.

On Tuesday afternoon, Prince George's County police identified the alleged shooter from an early morning murder-suicide in College Park as 23-year-old Dayvon Maurice Green. According to police, Green was an engineering graduate student at the University of Maryland. Speaking to reporters outside the scene of the shooting, UMD President Wallace Loh said he believed Green had been at the university for about a year. Green earned his undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, officials said. The Baltimore Sun reports that he was a member of Phi Beta Sigma's Gamma chapter and maintained a grade point average above 3.5. Green also participated in the NASA Student Ambassador program and worked at the NASA Goddard Space …

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patricia

1:31 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

But mandating that everyone disclose their mental illness is not the answer? Oh, but mandating new gun control laws is the answer. It's funny how when someone commits murder in this way , their privacy was more important than someone's right to carry a gun or defend themselves against a mentally unstable person, who in most cases, someone they lived with or worked with or went to school with, …   more ›

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