Dang, Cha was so close to retirement, pretty sad indeed

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UNLV gunman had list of targets at the university and 150 rounds of ammunition, police say

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The 67-year-old gunman who killed three faculty members and wounded a fourth in a roughly 10-minute rampage at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had a list of targets at the school and more than 150 rounds of ammunition, police said Thursday.

...It wasn’t immediately clear how many of the school’s 30,000 students were on campus at the time, but McMahill said students had been gathered outside the building and the student union to eat and play games. If police hadn’t killed the attacker, “it could have been countless additional lives taken,” he said.

UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield identified two of the victims who were killed as business school professors Patricia Navarro-Velez and Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang. Whitfield said the name of the third victim will be released after relatives have been notified of the death.

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Third victim IDed and yep, another Asian:

Third victim ID'd in UNLV shooting as college professors decry 'national menace'

Naoko Takemaru oversaw Japanese Studies at UNLV
The Clark County Coroner's Office identified the final person killed in the shooting as Naoko Takemaru, 69, on Friday. Takemaru lived in Las Vegas and was an associate professor at UNLV, teaching Japanese studies at Beam Hall, according to her staff page on the university's website.

Naoko Takemaru, 69, was an associate professor teaching Japanese studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas.
"Takemaru has taught all levels of Japanese language, conversation, composition, grammar, culture, and Japanese-English translation," the university wrote. "She has also coordinated Japanese language programs at the university level. At UNLV, she oversees the entire Japanese Studies Program, and teaches upper-division courses on Japanese language, culture, and business."

French professor Margaret Harp recalled Takemaru for her wide breadth of artistic talents. Takemaru played the piano, embroidered, and gifted homemade chocolates every holiday season. She was hired in 2003 to develop the Japanese language program, Harp said, and succeeded with a constantly full class.

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Biden meets with UNLV students, community members
President Joe Biden mourned on Friday victims of the deadly shooting at UNLV and called again on Congress to enact tougher gun-safety measures.

Biden opened his remarks at an infrastructure event in Las Vegas by offering his prayers for the families of those killed in Wednesday’s shooting and praising law enforcement officers who put their lives at risk to respond to such tragedies. He noted more than 600 mass shootings have unfolded in the United States this year.

“This is not normal, and we can never let it become normal,” he said. “People have the right to feel safe, be safe.”

Biden’s trip to Las Vegas was planned before Wednesday’s shooting, but while there he met privately with students from the college and community leaders. The meeting was held at a carpenter training center ahead of his infrastructure speech.

In his remarks, Biden said Congress needs to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and enact other “commonsense” gun-safety measures.

“You know, the Second Amendment didn’t say you can own any gun and own any weapon,” he said.