CWRU has service for slain student

About 300 people attended the service.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Two families -- his own and his "educational family" -- were mourning a graduate student killed in a shooting spree at Case Western Reserve University, the school's president said Friday at a memorial service.
About 300 people gathered for the service at a chapel on campus one week after Norman E. Wallace, 30, of Youngstown, was killed in the shootings and seven-hour standoff at the business school.
A graduate of the business school, Biswanath Halder, 62, is charged with aggravated murder in the shootings and is being held without bond. Police said he entered the Peter B. Lewis Building shortly after 4 p.m. May 9 with two guns and shot Wallace, who was talking with friends on the first floor. Two others were injured.
Welcomed family, friends
President Edward Hundert welcomed Wallace's family and friends to the service, which included songs by the gospel choir from Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church in Youngstown, where Wallace's uncle is pastor.
"I'm pleased to introduce Norman's family to his educational family, representing 23 different countries and a remarkable breadth of experiences," Hundert said.
Nearly 100 people were trapped inside the building during the standoff, hiding inside offices, classrooms and closets until SWAT team members and FBI agents got them out.
"Many of the people here were trapped in the building for seven hours, and all have a sense of disgust for someone who threatened the values and openness the university has," Hundert said.
The building is a shiny, swirling structure filled with curved corridors that complicated Halder's capture. On Friday, yellow tape still was wrapped around the building, marking it as a crime scene.
Moshen Anvari, director of Weatherhead School of Management, said Wallace "embraced the notion of cooperation and teamwork with his fellow students to help them to achieve their educational potential."
Wallace's friend Akousa Nkwantabisa, a student in the business school, paused to fight back tears as she told the audience Wallace taught her "to live for today, because you can never go back."
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