WSU President donates $10,000 to find beating suspects
Apr 10, 2013, 6:39 AM | Updated: 12:27 pm
A professor at Washington State University is still in critical condition after being attacked near campus late last month, and now there’s a renewed effort to find the people who left Dr. David Warner fighting for his life.
The president of the university is donating $10,000 of his own money to a reward fund and Pullman police have released surveillance video of the young men they believe beat Warner unconscious.
Police say that around 2:00 a.m. on March 30 Warner was trying to intervene between some college-age people fighting in the parking lot of Adams Mall on College Hill. Warner was left lying on the ground, unable to move on his own.
University President Elson Floyd is also creating a Commission on Campus Climate to address what he calls an “underlying fear and anger among some on campus regarding issues of race.”
Warner is Native American and teaches in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, although police have said there’s no indication race was a factor in the beating.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
