Cleveland, May 13: An Indian man accused of opening fire at a university business school was charged with killing a graduate student and trying to kill two other people. Biswanath Halder, 62, was to be arraigned today on charges of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, said police spokeswoman Nancy Dominik. He remained in jail, and authorities said he did not have a lawyer yesterday.
Halder is accused of opening fire inside the Peter B. Lewis building at Case Western Reserve University on Friday, killing Norman Wallace, 30. Nearly 100 people were trapped inside the building during the seven-hour standoff, hiding inside offices classrooms and closets until a swat team and the FBI got them out.
Halder had filed a lawsuit in 2001 accusing a university employee of deleting information from his web site. A lawyer said the computer lab employee, Shawn Miller, was present during the shootings and standoff but was never directly threatened by Halder.
Miller's lawyer, Jennifer Schwartz, said he was part of a group escorted out near the end of the standoff. Bureau Report