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Show From 1A hour after the shootout. Dearden said another student was hit first, then Kiernan, then the suspect, then Richard G. Hill, a WSU staff member acting as a hearing officer. The gun used by the suspect was believed to be a .22-caliber revolver. Dearden said it was not immediately known how the gun was brought into the poate without being detected. Dearden said Hill was hit in the arm, the officer was hit in the nose and the other student was grazed in the head. Shortly before 10 a.m., paramedics. wheeled Duong into the McKay-Dee Hospital emergency room. '* Hospital personnel said Duong had four gunshot wounds’ — two in his right leg, one in the left leg and one in his right arm. He initially was listed in extremely critical condition and went into surgery shortly after his arrival at the hospital. Duong died at 10:15 'a.m., said Dr. Michael Corman, a heart surgeon. Greg Carver, a nurse anesthetist, said Duong suffered a gunshot wound that entered under his right armpit, went right to left through his body and destroyed the heart’s right ventricle. A nurse at one point held up a piece of paper that looked like a small computer printout, saying, “And here’s a threat note he (Duong) had in his pocket.” Hospital administrators did not allow re- porters to oa a closer look at the note. Three shooting victims were taken to the St. Benedict’s Hospital emergency room about 10:15 a.m. Witnesses said Kiernan’s wife was at the emergency room to greet her husband. ~ | Kiernan is no stranger to being injured on the job as a police officer. While working as a Pleasant View police officer in December 1990, he was seriously injured when his cruiser was struck by another car when he had stopped to help a stranded motorist. A St. Benedict’s spokeswoman said Kiernan was in stable condition with gunshot wounds to his hand and face. He was expected to go into surgery later today, the spokeswoman said. Hill, 48, was reported in stable condition with wounds in both arms. The third man, identified by the hospital as Tuan Nguyen, 30, was seen walking around at the hospital shortly after the shooting. He suffered a wound to his head. “I don’t know if the bullet entered his body or he was grazed,” the spokeswoman said. 3 Nguyen was having bullet fragments removed from his head late this morning. Cantera said it was the harassment of Nguyen and his wife that was the subject of today’s hearing. WSU President Paul Thompson announced the shooting today at the beginning of a monthly board of trustees meeting. “It's a very tragic situation,” he said. “A student apparently had an argument during a hearing.” A student, Robert Keone, said he was working in the bowling alley downstairs in the Union Building when he heard an officer had been shot. A police science student, ‘Keone ran to the scene and said he saw Hill lying on the floor of Room 352. Keone said Hill was wounded in both arms and bleeding. Keone went over to give first aid to another victim he identified as “Mark.” Keone said he ripped off his undershirt and administered aid. The victim, who he identified s “the suspect,” was wounded in both legs and bleeding profusely, Keone said. He ripped his undershirt in half, making tourniquets to stop the bleeding from both the suspect’s legs. The suspect was also bleeding : from the chest. Keone said the man had a bullet partially lodged in his chest. | “I looked underneath me shirt and there was virtually no impact wound, but he was in really deep shock,” Keone said, who noted he saw four bullets lying next to the man’s legs and believed they came from a .38-caliber revolver that was lying nearby. He said Kiernan shot the suspect. The last time a local police officer was shot was on Sept. 26, 1991, when Roy Police Officer Pete O’Brien, a member of the WeberMorgan Narcotics Strike Force, was shot once in the shoulder during a drug bust gone awry. O’Brien’s injury was minor, but a suspect in an undercover drug deal, Charles E. Kent of Ogden, was shot AUGUST MILLER/Standard- Bxaminal People at the scene of a quadruple shooting at Weber State. University comfort each other following the incident about 9:30 a.m. today. About a dozen people were witnesses to the shooting. to death in the incident. Standard-Examiner reporters Jennifer Katleman, Lori Bona Hunt, Charles F. Trentelman, Tim Gur- rister, Brian K. Alvord, Don Baker, Wendy Ogata, Amy Joi Bryson, Lisa Carricaburu and Kristina Sauerwein contributed to this story. |