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Fourth Avenue shooting was FAU's third

22.11.11

UPDATE (11/3 1:45 p.m.) The earliest known shooting at FAU was in 1986, not 2006, as previously reported.

Yesterday wasn’t the first time someone pulled a trigger on, or near, the Boca campus.

Prior to the Oct. 30 4th Ave shooting, which was a block from FAU, the university had three others: One in 2008, another in 2006, and the earliest known ones in 1986.

In 1986, a 19-year old FAU student was shot by her ex-boyfriend outside of her dorm.

Christy Bock and 21-year old Troy Kroupa had apparently been arguing when Kroupa opened fire with a .22 caliber AR-7 Explorer rifle, according to the Sun-Sentinel .

Kroupa, who had played football for the Coconut Creek High School Cougars, shot Bock in the back of the head, and then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

Bock did not sustain long-term injuries from the gunshot wound.

Source: University Press