What in the world would possess a student to walk around in a mask with a gun? Did he want to get caught?

A gunman wearing a George Bush mask and toting a single-shot rifle was arrested at St. John’s University Wednesday afternoon thanks to the quick work of a police cadet, officials said. The incident triggered fear but no injuries on the Queens campus, and no gunshots were fired, police said.
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Officers spent the afternoon scouring the campus, going building to building. Police also searched the Jackson Heights, Queens home of the 22-year-old suspect, identified by police as Omesh Hiraman, who appears to be a student.
Police say an off-duty police cadet who attends St. John’s, Christopher Benson, 21, saw Hiraman walk past at approximately 2:30 p.m. wearing the mask and a black hoodie.
Kimberly Forrest, 18, from Central Islip says she was on her way to Marillac Hall for a class, when she also “saw a guy walking in my direction wearing a white mask”.
“I thought it was strange that a person was wearing a hoodie and a mask”.
Benson noticed the suspect was carrying a black plastic bag with what appeared to be a rifle sticking out, and contacted police.
Benson followed Hiraman to Marillac Hall, police say, where a university guard who was responding to calls of a suspicious male grabbed the rifle from Hiraman after a struggle. The weapon was a Wolf, .50 caliber breech-loading black powder rifle.

I have to say it’s going to be really difficult to let my baby go to college in a couple years. I think I’m going to be pushing for Rutgers 🙂