Murder In Low Rise 7

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On Saturday, December 17, 1983, two freshman women, Young Hee Suh '87 and Erin Nieswand '87 were fatally shot by 26-year-old Su Yong Kim.

The two women were in their dorm, Low Rise 7, when Kim, a non-Cornell student, invaded their room. Armed with a gun, he arrived at their dorm and confronted the two after Suh refused to see him. Kim was described as an “obsessed admirer and talker of Suh.”

A student in the room below, Brenda Scinto '87, describes, “We all heard him come in through the back fire escape stairs. Those doors were supposed to have been locked but everyone kept them propped open, and that's how he got in. He came in through the fire escape stairway and entered the suite above me.”

Scinto heard gunshots and then footsteps as Kim fled back down the fire escape stairs.

Kim held five additional students hostage before releasing all but Suh and Nieswand. It was Suh that had urged Kim to let the additional hostages go.

Scinto recalls, "When the hostages were released in Low Rise, the resident advisors were immediately told what was going on and within minutes the police were there, buildings all over campus were locked down and police caught him within two miles of the dorm.”

Felicia Daniels, "Alums Recall 1983 C.U. Murders." The April 16 Archive, Object #675 (July 10 2007, 9:13 pm) <http://www.april16archive.org/object/675>

[edit] Articles of Interest

"CUPD Assesses Campus Safety, Cornell responds to recent tragedy at Virginia Tech." Cornell Daily Sun. 18 Apr 2007.