{"73787":{"#nid":"73787","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Confesses to Campus Incident","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech student has indicated his involvement in an Oct. 10 incident involving a crude bottle explosive found on Tech\u0027s east campus. The incident was not in any way the work of a \u0022terrorist\u0022 group.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe turned himself in to Georgia Tech police the morning of Oct. 11 and confessed to his involvement. He\u0027s facing charges for possession of a destructive device (a felony under Georgia Law) and reckless conduct (a misdemeanor under Georgia law).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe freshman engineering student has been temporarily suspended pending a student judiciary ruling.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Police Department and the Atlanta Police Department are still investigating the incident. The contents and exact nature of the bottle explosives have not been determined and are still under investigation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAround 8:45 a.m. on Oct. 10, during a routine grounds cleaning, a Georgia Tech facilities worker picked up an item believed to be trash in the courtyard between the Glenn and Cloudman residence halls on the southeast side of campus and it exploded. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECampus police were immediately notified, and the two residence halls were evacuated as a safety precaution. Approximately 100 students were evacuated from the two residence halls. Many students were already in class at the time of the event. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo similar bottle explosives were found in the same area and the Atlanta Police and Fire Departments were called in to assess and contain the situation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Police Department\u0027s bomb squad detonated the remaining two bottle explosives shortly before noon and students were allowed to reenter the residence halls. The facilities worker was taken to a clinic for evaluation and released.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile this incident unfortunately was frightening for many Georgia Tech students and employees, it turned out to be an excellent test of Tech\u0027s emergency preparedness program. All emergency response efforts functioned exceedingly well, and Tech has every confidence that would be the case if such an incident occurred in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech student has confessed to his involvement in an Oct. 10 incident involving a bottle explosive. The incident is still under investigation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student in custody for Oct. 10 incident"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2005-10-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:59","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7180","name":"control"},{"id":"525","name":"military"},{"id":"4193","name":"venturelab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}