On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, Purdue University’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, was the site of a fatal attack in a basement classroom of the Electrical Engineering building. Andrew Boldt, 21, a teaching assistant and student from West Bend, Wisconsin, was shot and stabbed multiple times in front of other students around noon. Witnesses said the assailant entered the classroom and intentionally targeted Boldt; there was no preceding argument or fight and the attack appeared isolated and deliberate.

The assailant was identified as 23-year-old Cody Cousins, a College of Engineering student. Cousins left the building and surrendered to a responding police officer. An autopsy confirmed Boldt suffered multiple gunshot and stab wounds. Boldt’s family and the Purdue community held vigils to remember him and he was posthumously awarded his electrical engineering degree.

If anyone was in the Electrical Engineering building that day or has information about what happened in that classroom, please come forward.