University of Virginia Library

Deputies and Dogs

They overtook the
university administration
building at about 8:30 a.m.
yesterday. The deputies, many
leading dogs, swept into the
8,400 student campus, and at
about 10:30 a.m. Sheriff Al
Amis delivered the ultimatum
to the students that they
evacuate the building in five
minutes. Mr. Amis estimated
that 2,000 students were in
and around the building.

A smoke grenade and
makeshift fragmentation
bombs were then reported to
have been thrown from the
building. The deputies moved
in and at the end of the
ensuing ten minute skirmish,
two students lay dead.

East Baton Rouge coroner
Hyoplite Landry later
confirmed that the two black
students had been shot.
According to Mr. Amis, none
of his deputies had fired
anything but tear gas into the
crowd. The size or direction of
the fatal projectiles has not yet
been determined.

East Baton Rouge Mayor
W.W. Dumas said yesterday
"Two students have been shot
and there may be more, if
necessary... We are going to
take back over the
administration building at any
cost." Deputies quickly
regained control of the
building after the gunfire that
left the two students dead,
United Press International
reported.

There was no court order to
demand the students'
evacuation of the building,
Baton Rouge deputy reported
yesterday. The ultimatum was
issued on the authority of the
mayor, the sheriff, and the
superintendent of Louisiana's
state police.

The deputy refused to
speculate on the possibility of
the students having guns, but
Mr. Amis reported that the
gunfire seemed to have come
from hand guns.