BREAKING NEWS: Shooting near OSU Stillwater campus, all-clear

UPDATED - 10:44 p.m.

The Residence Area Coordinator's office has stated that the "shots" heard near Davis Hall on Monday night were fireworks.

UPDATED - 7:40 p.m.

Kasey Cook, the OSU student shot in the leg around 9:05 p.m. Monday night, was released from the hospital around 3:30 p.m. today.

More details will continue to be posted as they become available.

UPDATED - 12:41 p.m.

The O'Colly visited both OSU PD and Stillwater PD when they opened this morning.

Officer Dickerson from SPD said he could not make an official statement other than what was released in the media release at the time because it was an ongoing investigation and it might interfere with the SPD detective's investigation.

Officials at OSU PD said that they could not comment because it was SPD's case, although OSU police officers were seen carrying assault rifles and investigating Zinc and Davis Halls area hours of the shooting.

An O'Colly reporter has spoken with Gary Shutt, OSU's communications director, and his statements will be posted soon.

UPDATED 11:13 a.m.

Below is a plain text version of the media release provided by Stillwater Police:

On Monday 11‐8‐2010 2105 hours officers responded to 417 S. Lincoln reference a man shot in the

leg.

Officers arrived on scene and contacted Kacy Cook 20 years old of Stillwater. Cook stated he had

been shot in the leg by an unknown black male who was hiding in his home upon his return.

Stillwater Fire Department ambulance arrived on scene and transported Cookto the Stillwater

Medical Center for treatment.

Witnesses reported they last observed the unknown black male running northbound from Cook's

residence. Witnesses described the black male, early 20's, 6 ft 2, around 230lbs with short

dreadlocks or corn‐row type hairstyle. Suspect was last seen wearing gray hoodie sweatshirt , blue

jeans and black/green backpack, small amount of facial hair under chin.

This incident is under investigation. If anyone has any information pertaining to this incident contact

the Criminal Investigative Division of the Stillwater Police Department.

UPDATED 12:34

Kasey Cook updated his facebook status on the way to the hospital.

"Just got shot in my leg!!!! Ouch it stings!!! In the ambulance on the way to the ER."

UPDATED - 12:11

According to OSU Capt. Richard Atkins:

OSU PD did not issue lockdown.

Stillwater PD responded to reports of shots fired near Davis hall. Some officers on the call carried assault rifles.

Atkins said, 94 percent of the 20,000 warning calls made through OSU emergency system were successfully received.

If you did not receive the voice mail, Atkins recommended visiting your OKEY account and updating emergency information, preferably to voicemail. If it is already set to voicemail, you can report it to codered@okstate.edu

UPDATED -11:58

OSU police cleared the campus of any threat from the shooter who shot Kasey Cook, an OSU student from Grapevine, Texas.

Reports are that the shooter is a 6'2", black male with dreadlocks.

"If you are on/near OSU campus please stay inside," said a phone call from the OSU police. 

Reports from the scene said that armed man shot Cook then robbed him, stealing a backpack containing a laptop.  

The laptop fell out of the pack in Sigma Phi Epsilon's volleyball pit while the armed man was fleeing the scene of the crime. 

Andrew Schram, an international business freshman and member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said he saw a man with dreadlocks with a hood on running across the Sig Ep parking lot and tripped in the volleyball pit.

Schram said the man that was shot came out of his house and asked him if he saw the man running.

"He (Cook) had blood running down his leg and he asked me if I just saw a guy running and I said 'Ya' and he was like 'He just shot me,'" Schram said. "I asked him if he needed to sit down and he said 'No, it didn't burn as bad as I thought it would' and I was like, 'Dude you just got shot and he sat down and made a joke and said 'At least it didn't hit my balls.'"

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