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Killing Spree, Binghamton, NY
A gunman invaded an immigration services center in downtown
Binghamton, N.Y., during citizenship classes on Friday and
shot 13 people to death and critically wounded 4 others
before killing himself in a paroxysm of violence that turned
a quiet civic setting into scenes of carnage and chaos.
The killing began around 10:30 a.m. and was over in minutes,
witnesses said, but the ordeal lasted up to three hours for
those trapped inside the American Civic Association as
heavily armed police officers, sheriff’s deputies and
state troopers threw up a cordon of firepower outside and
waited in a silence of uncertainty.
Finally, officers who had not fired a shot closed in and
found a sprawl of bodies in a classroom, 37 terrified
survivors cowering in closets and a boiler room and, in an
office, the dead gunman, identified as Jiverly Wong, 42, a
Vietnamese immigrant who lived in nearby Johnson City.
The GCP event was set for an hour before to 4 hours after
the event began, 13:30 to 18:30 UTC. The result was
Chisquare 17784.846 on 18000 df for p = 0.872 and Z = -1.136.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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