Moody Towers are twin 18-story high-rise residence halls located in the Wheeler District on the campus of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, United States.
[2] The towers also house the largest dining hall on the campus.
[3] A mass shooting from atop Moody Towers was prevented when police arrested Albert J. Russell, Jr. in 1972.
[4] Russell, who was not a student, was trespassing on university property around the sixth anniversary of the mass shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, and attempted to go atop one of the towers with a loaded M14 rifle and a loaded .22 Long Rifle.
Upon arrest, he told police he would've shot people had he been allowed on the rooftop.