Student Opens Fire, Is Shot Dead at Hearing
A university student accused of harassing a fellow student and his wife opened fire with a handgun during his grievance hearing Thursday, wounding three people before a police officer shot him dead.
The hearing in the Weber State University student union building was ending when Mark Duong stood up and opened fire, said Weber County Sheriff Craig Dearden.
The student who brought the grievance was grazed in the head, a university lawyer was wounded in the arm and campus police Sgt. Kent Kiernan was hit in the face, Dearden said.
Kiernan returned fire, hitting Duong several times, Dearden said. The 28-year-old Ogden man was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour later. He had been hit five times, a hospital spokeswoman said.
The student, Tuan Nguyen; the lawyer, Richard Hill; and Kiernan were all hospitalized in stable condition, authorities said.
University spokesman Ron Cantera said the hearing involved Nguyen’s accusations that Duong had harassed him and his wife, Huan. He wouldn’t discuss the nature of the harassment.
He said a police officer attended Thursday’s proceedings, and two earlier hearings, because the alleged harassment involved threats.
The 14,500-student, state-owned campus is located about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City.
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