The Case Western Reserve University shooting took place on May 9, 2003, when Biswanath Halder entered the Peter B. Lewis Building of the Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio where he then killed graduate student Norman Wallace and wounded two professors.
Dressed in camouflage, 62-year-old Biswanath Halder, wearing a flak vest and carrying a semi-automatic rifle, entered the Peter B. Lewis Building of Case Western Reserve University on the afternoon of May 9, 2003.
[1] He started roaming the halls and shooting the rifle, quickly encountering Norman Wallace, a 30-year-old graduate student, whom he shot and killed.
As it was a Friday, the school had fewer students and staff around than at other times during the week, but nearly 100 people were trapped in the building.
For more than seven hours, Halder held off Cleveland city police, SWAT officers, FBI and forces of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department.
He attended the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), graduating in 1999 and gaining a reputation of being difficult.