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ylowe
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 Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 04:27:47
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Courtesy of freedomnewspaper.com
Breaking News:Senegalese PHD Student Murdered In Chicago
Senegalese PHD Student Murdered In Chicago
Chicago University Mourns Departed Student
The tragic death of Amadou Cisse, a Senegalese Post Graduate Doctorate Student at the university of Chicago has been announced. Mr. Cisse 29, who was about to complete his Doctorate degree in Chemistry and Posthumously was shot death near his apartment, which is very close to University Campus by an unknown gunman. Police in Chicago have intensified investigation on the murder of the Senegalese National, whose death triggered an angry reaction among University students and African Community in Chicago. They want the killer(s) of Mr.Cisse be apprehended and arraigned before a court of law.
The New York Times reported that “The killing was one of three violent crimes within an hour and a few blocks of one another, according to the police and university officials. About 12:30 a.m., a male university employee was chased and shot at, but escaped serious injury. At 1:15, two female undergraduates were robbed by a man who said he had a gun. Minutes later, Mr. Cisse was fatally wounded.
Police officials said they were investigating whether the crimes were related and issued a community alert with a picture of a car believed to be tied to the shooting of Mr. Cisse. Some students questioned why the university waited nine hours before sending e-mail and phone alerts about the violence. A university spokeswoman, Julie A. Peterson, said, “I don’t know if it would have been a better decision to issue the alert in the middle of the night immediately following the shooting, but it’s a fair question to ask.”
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The attacks shocked students at this university, long an island of privilege butted uncomfortably against areas of poverty and crime. While students said they were accustomed to minor crimes — bicycle thefts, car break-ins — Mr. Cisse’s death has sent ripples of fear through the campus. The last time a student died as a result of violent crime on or near the campus was in July 1977, officials said.
Since the attacks, students said, they have been leaving the library earlier than usual and taking extra care at night. “People with cars are offering to drive more people home,” said Amalia Beckner, 19. One night this week, she said, a fellow student insisted on driving her the block or so from a building to her dormitory.
Ms. Peterson said the school had taken “immediate measures to enhance safety.” The number of campus police cars patrolling from dusk to dawn has grown to 23 from 9, officials said, and two vans have been added to a program that offers late-night rides. There is also a new plan to open a campus police substation until construction ends on one that was previously planned.
Up the block from where Mr. Cisse was killed, an emergency phone connecting students to the campus police had been removed because of construction of a dormitory. “I think it’s unfortunate that the call box was not there,” Ms. Peterson said, “but we don’t know what difference that would have made, if any.” The box was back up and running on Tuesday.
Matthew Kennedy, 21, a student government vice president, said students were angry, yet somewhat resigned, about the death. “People want answers, and they want the university to protect them,” he said. “But the overwhelming sense is that this was a random act of violence, that this happens when you live in an urban environment.”
The attacks have lent a new urgency to longstanding questions about the relationship between the university, in Hyde Park, and surrounding neighborhoods. Mr. Cisse was killed just south of a boulevard-like expanse called the Midway. Campus buildings lining the Midway have long been seen as a symbolic divider between the university and the neighborhood of Woodlawn. “Once you cross this one little line, you feel like you’re in a different world,” said Fida Abuisneineh, 19.
Meanwhile, Sun Times News Group said “Amadou Cisse was an active University of Chicago doctorate student who was always concerned about his homeland of Senegal.
On Tuesday evening, dozens of students, area residents and activists showed their own concern for the 29-year-old man with a vigil and march from the South Side site where he was murdered.
"I still can't believe it," Dr. Ousmane Diallo of Iowa, the brother of Cisse's mother, who is in Senegal, said later. "We are very saddened, but his mother is very strong in faith."
More than 130 people participated in the vigil in the Woodlawn community.
"We are very angry," said Cheikh Balla Samb, president of the Senegalese Association in Chicago, who is organizing Cisse's memorial service today. "I think that a big school like the University of Chicago should have done more to protect students in the area. But human life is subject to mistakes. And the university is paying his expenses."
The school is shipping Cisse's body back to Senegal today. The memorial is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at BTS and Regan Funeral Home, 851 E. 75th St.
Meanwhile, the CBS News said “investigators hope fingerprints they lifted from a car found on the Far South Side will help them determine if it is linked to the murder of a doctoral student at the University of Chicago.
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ylowe
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Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 04:38:03
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| This is very sad indeed after all those years of schooling. May his soul rest in peace. I also read another article which said he lost his father when he was a toddler who was in combat in our Gambia. Amadou was 29 years old and doing the math tells me that he lost his father during the 1981 rebellion. Amadou was one of the sons of africa denied the opportunity to spent time with their fathers just because a gang of thugs wanted to cause unrest. He took it to higher level in the absence of his father. May Allah grant him jannah. |
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jambo
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Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 13:40:35
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| my prayers are with his family. |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Nov 2007 : 02:08:12
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May Amadou Cisse soul rest in perfect peace. What a waste another senseless murder. Bullets are far too cheap how come when taxes go up they don't increase the price on bullets, to quote Chris Rock a bullet should be at least $6000 because instead of someone just shooting a gun they would have to save up to it and by then thy'd think seriously about committing the crime in the first place. It seems as if the world is paying a heavy price for the right to bear arms. Rights should go hand in hand with responsibility the sooner they find Modou's killer the better.
Peace
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mansasulu
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Posted - 25 Nov 2007 : 15:46:26
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| very tragic indeed. |
"...Verily, in the remembrance of Allâh do hearts find rest..." Sura Al-Rad (Chapter 13, Verse 28)
...Gambian by birth, Muslim by the grace of Allah... |
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