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When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid...
...Toll said that a recent decision by a Board of Regents committee against moving the law and social work schools away from the Baltimore campus has allowed Maryland to "move ahead...
...think Dr. White is a very fine person who behaved with great integrity at every stage," Toll said...
...think the normal planning process broke down," said Toll, the former chancellor. "I think the situation has now been corrected...
...Toll disagrees, saying Maryland "ought to be able to attract as good a president as Gus White." But Toll acknowledges that the White episode may hurt the school system for some time...