HORIZONS a OGDEN, UTAH Student opens ‘fire at gnevance hearing Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN — A student opened fire during a grievance hearing at Weber State University today, resulting in the wounding of three others in the crowded room before a campus police officer returned fire and shot him to death, authorities said. . Killed was Mark Duong, 28, of Ogden, who authorities said stood up, pulled out a handgun and began shooting people near the end of a hearing on harassment allega- tions. Police Officer Kent Kiernan, 40, one of those who was shot, fired back, hitting Duong several times, officials said. : A university attorney and another student also were wounded by gunshots. Gunfire rang out in Room 352 in the southwest wing of the Shepherd Union Building at 9:30 a.m., said Ron Cantera, WSU public relations director. About were in the room. a dozen people Cantera said the hearing was being conducted on allegations of a student harassing a married couple, at times on campus. It was the third such hearing in the case, he added. \ “We have a campus policy that protects students and employees from harassment on kampus,” Can- tera said. “Apparently some of the alleged incidents happened while pus returned the fire,” Cantera said. He said he didn’t know where the handgun had been concealed. 'In a late-morning news conference, Weber County Sheriff Craig Dearden said, “What we have here was a hearing being held here on a problem at the university that has some background.” “The meeting was about to end when one of the people who was involved in the hearing stood up and began shooting.” Kiernan — who Dearden said was at the hearing in anticipation of trouble — was hit by one of the shots, then stood up and returned |