Update: My mom just called. My niece was on her way to class in that very building when the police stopped her from going on. Now she's got one of those "If I hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee..." stories.
Update: I just talked to my sister. She's just back from a funeral that could have been her daughter's. My niece actually had a 10:00 Spanish class in the same room as the French class that was attacked. She usually got there early and sat in the hall. Sometimes she even sat in on the French class. But since her 9:00 class got out early, she decided she had time to get a cup of coffee. I had been thinking she was stopped by some sort of cordon, but the shooting was in progress when she arrived and the police yelled at her to get back.
Here's a photo of the now famous coffee cup with her message to the victims. It reads:
If it had not been for this coffee cup, I would have been in Norris 251. I can't thank God enough for saving my life, but I will also never understand why yours had to be lost.
You know what's so scary about these random shootings? He could have decided to shoot up the coffee shop and then she would have been in the wrong place. There's nothing you can do and not much you can learn from these things.
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