Student Shooter Suspect Arrested While Interview Still Going (VIDEO)

Kudos to the student journalists at El Paso Community College for sticking around after a campus shooting to do video interviews with students – including with a befuddled young man who was arrested as a suspect in the middle of the interview.

Editors Jesús A. Rodríguez and Viridiana Villa of the Tejano Tribune, who followed police and the handcuffed student as he was booked, told the El Paso Times:

“He was giving really short answers,” Rodríguez said. “He looked nervous. How do you feel this happened in your college? He said ‘its bad’ and he was looking around. We talked for about a minute.” …

During the interview, EPCC police approached, yelling at the student.

“He didn’t even try to run or anything,” Rodríguez said. “He walked toward the police officers like he already knew he was going to be arrested. He was handcuffed, taken into the building and into the (police) offices.

“As a reporter, we didn’t have time to think,” Rodríguez said. “We just started to take video. It was kind of a shock.”