USC girls’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb suffered a bitter defeat Saturday when her crew misplaced 79-51 to top-ranked crew UConn. However after she walked off courtroom, she weighed in on a extra urgent matter: the lethal capturing at her alma mater, Brown College.
“It’s the weapons,” Gottlieb mentioned as she started a post-game information convention on the Ivy League faculty. “It doesn’t must be this manner.”
Gottlieb mentioned she acquired again to the locker room Saturday after the USC Trojans’ dwelling sport with No. 1 UConn Huskies and had “1,000,000 textual content messages” from former Brown teammates. A gunman had opened fireplace throughout remaining exams, killing two college students and injuring 9 others.
“We’re the one nation that lives this manner,” Gottlieb mentioned, her voice shaking as she famous that she knew individuals who have youngsters at Brown. “Dad and mom mustn’t should be frightened about their children.”
Gottlieb, who graduated from Brown in 1999, was a member of the ladies’s basketball crew and served as a scholar assistant coach throughout her senior season.
Certainly one of her former teammates, she mentioned, was flying into Windfall on Sunday, as a result of she had a daughter who had taken shelter within the basement of the library, and “she doesn’t know what’s occurring there.”
Oscar Perez, the Windfall police chief, mentioned Sunday that an individual of curiosity in his 20s was in custody. No costs have been filed, he mentioned, noting “we’re within the technique of amassing proof.”
On Saturday, college students and school spent the night time on lockdown, trapped inside lecture rooms and dorms whereas legislation enforcement fanned out throughout Windfall to seek for the shooter.
“Hopefully, everyone seems to be protected and praying for peace for people who have misplaced folks,” Gottlieb mentioned earlier than she assessed her crew’s sport towards the Huskies. “And that’s that. It’s extra vital than basketball. We will all be higher.”
Brown College has canceled all remaining courses and exams for the autumn semester.
“The previous 24 hours actually have been unimaginable,” Christina Paxson, college president, wrote in an e mail to alumni. “It’s a tragedy that no college group is ever prepared for.”
