Teaching assistant shot and killed in Purdue University classroom

Carl Abernathy / purdueexponent.org

A male suspect is taken into custody Tuesday after a fatal shooting in a classroom on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

A teaching assistant was killed Tuesday and a fellow student was in custody after a shooting on the campus of Purdue University in Indiana, police and campus authorities said.
The shooting in the electrical engineering department building was reported to campus police about noon ET, and a text alert immediately went out urging students and staff to shelter in place, said Liz Evans, a spokeswoman for the college in West Lafayette.

Cody M. Cousins, 23, of Centerville, Ohio, and Warsaw, Ind., was held in the Tippecanoe County Jail without bond on suspicion of homicide in the death of Andrew F. Boldt, 21, of West Bend, Wis., campus Police Chief John Cox said. He said he couldn't comment on a possible motive. FULL STORY,