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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007
CRIME
Police search for explanation Officials don't know whether player was targeted
ASSOCIATED PRESS
University of Memphis football players, including linebacker Quinton McCraig, right, visit a memorial at the site in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, where teammate Taylor Bradford's car hit a tree after he was shot Sunday evening. Bradford, 21, who was pronounced dead in a hospital, apparently was shot near a university housing complex in what police first believed was a targeted attack. Classes were canceled Monday as a precaution.
BY WOODY BAIRD ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Students at the University of Memphis returned to class Tuesday without knowing whether the fatal campus shooting of a football player was a targeted or random attack.
University officials had said they believed the Sunday night attack was specifically aimed at Taylor Bradford. But no suspects have been identified and police later said they could not yet determine the motive for the shooting outside a university housing complex that led officials to cancel classes Monday.
"We really don't know whether it was a random act or whether or not this individual was targeted," City Police Director Larry Godwin said.
Bradford, 21, apparently was shot near his apartment complex Sunday night, then crashed a car he was driving into a tree a short distance away on campus, authorities said. They have not determined whether he was shot before or after he started driving.
Police were responding to the crash when they found Bradford slumped over in the car.
"It wasn't until the paramedics got there that they determined there was a possible gunshot wound," said Bruce Harber, director of university police. He was apparently shot once, police said, though an autopsy was pending.
University President Shirley Raines said authorities quickly determined Bradford's killer or killers were not a threat to other students but still banned all outsiders from campus housing throughout
the night.
In an e-mail alert to faculty, students and staff early Monday, the university said "the initial investigation indicates this was an act directed specifically toward the victim and was not a random act of violence."
The university, primarily a commuter campus with more than 20,000 students, still decided to cancel classes Monday.
Witnesses saw two unidentified men running from the area where investigators believe the shooting occurred and other witnesses reported hearing gunfire, said Godwin, the city police director.
He said investigators had no evidence that Bradford was involved in any illegal activity.
"Everything I've heard about him ... he was just a good kid," Godwin said.
a junior who transferred to Memphis last year after two seasons at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. The Nashville resident was to play for the Tigers this season.
Monday afternoon, several football players and others tied a large red ribbon to the tree Bradford struck with his car and put up a large poster board for friends and acquaintances to leave personal notes.
"Our entire football team is deeply saddened by the loss of Taylor," Memphis head coach Tommy West said. "He was well respected and a popular member of our team."
The Memphis Tigers host Marshall University on Tuesday night, and a moment of silence was planned before the game.
Bradford lettered in three sports at Antioch High School in Nashville.
>> PRIMARY CAMPAIGN
BY JIM KUHNHENN ASSOCIATED PRESS
Clinton leads in funds raised
WASHINGTON — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $22 million this summer for her presidential primary campaign, outpacing all other candidates so far with her best three-month showing of the year.
For the first time, she reported attracting more new donors in a quarter than her chief fundraising rival. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton raised a total of $27 million in the three months, her campaign said Tuesday, but $5 million is designated for the general election and can't be used in her quest for the Democratic nomination.
Her $80 million total for the 2008 presidential race puts her on a par with Obama, though he still leads her in money raised for the primaries alone.
Clinton's summer donations bring her total primary dollars raised this year to $62 million. The New York senator has raised $17.6 million for the general election.
Clinton leads other Democrats in national opinion polls, three months before the first primaries.
Obama has reported raising at least $19 million from July through September for the primaries and about $20 million overall for the quarter, counting general election money. He has raised a total of $75 million for the primary season and about $4 million for the general election next year.
She also supplemented her primary fundraising earlier this year with a $10 million transfer from her 2006 Senate campaign.
Among Republicans, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pumped up his campaign bank account with money from donors and from his own personal wealth.
A top Romney adviser said he would report contributions of nearly $10 million for the quarter, as well as a personal loan to his campaign
of more than $6 million. That would bring Romney's overall public contributions for the year to about $45 million, and his personal investment in his race to at least $16 million, for total receipts of more than $60 million.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has kept pace with Romney's fundraising in the past, has not disclosed his third-quarter totals. He has said his fundraising would be on a par with other Republicans.
Sen. John McCain, who appears to have stopped a political free-fall, will report raising more than $5 million during the quarter, according to Republicans familiar with his effort. McCain also reduced a debt he had at midyear but did not eliminate it, one Republican said.
One McCain adviser said the campaign had stabilized its finances, significantly reducing its spending, which had averaged $4.5 million a month, to $1.5 million a month.
"We have made the budgetary measures that we need to take, and I'm satisfied with the fact that we'll have enough money to do television and radio and run our campaign," McCain said Tuesday while campaigning in Florida.
Later he told supporters, "We'll report a pretty good number on fundraising. We made the budgetary changes that were necessary."
Fred Thompson, the newcomer to the GOP field, raised more than $8 million during the quarter, supplementing the $3.5 million he raised in June, according to Republicans briefed on his fundraising totals.
Entering the fourth quarter, when spending will be heavy, the Romney campaign is eager to show a sizable amount of cash on hand to make clear it has the resources to compete in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
With their third-quarter numbers, Obama and Clinton have helped push the Democratic field into record fundraising territory for a presidential campaign.
They sit comfortably atop the Democratic field, well ahead of the fundraising of their nearest rival, John Edwards, who raised $7 million in the past three months for a total of $30 million for the year.
The Obama and Clinton campaigns did not report how much money they have on hand, totals that would signal how well-positioned they are to compete in the months ahead. While Clinton leads in national polls, she, Obama and Edwards are clustered closely in polls of Iowa voters. Iowa is scheduled to hold the first contest of the 2008 presidential season with its caucuses in January.
This was the first quarter that Clinton has raised more primary money than Obama, who has given her an unexpected tight competition in the money race.
"This is the moment when you showed that America is ready for change and that you are ready to make history," campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle said on the campaign's Web site in a message to supporters. "This is the moment when your dedication defied the skeptics. The early primaries and caucuses are coming up fast. We're going to need your help a lot in the next few months."
The Clinton campaign said her third-quarter contributions included money from 100,000 new donors, surpassing the 93,000 the Obama campaign said it attracted during the summer. Overall, the Obama campaign has said it has attracted 350,000 donors.
"More than 350,000 Americans have already signaled the kind of change they want in Washington by contributing to the Obama campaign," spokesman Bill Burton said. "We have raised a historic $74.9 million in dollars available for primary spending, without transferring one cent from any other campaign fund and with no money from federal lobbyists or PACs."
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