February 8, 2002

A Deadly Shooting Pierces 2 Small Colleges

By ERIC HOOVER

A student is dead, 4 others are shot, 6 face murder charges -- and the campuses ask why

When you get shot, the bullet burns like nothing else. Demetrius Phipps heard that a long time ago, and he believed it until the Friday night he saw blood coursing from his right hand. He hardly felt anything.

Sprinting away from a shootout on the campus of Catawba College on January 25, Mr. Phipps, a sophomore, thought at first that a rock had grazed his palm. But it was a stray bullet

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