The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later
March 10, 2026 at 03:30PMThroughout this nerve-racking reconstruction of a decades-old school shooting, Dylan Alphenaar, a student journalist at Cornell University, is attuned to small, devastating details. During a reporting trip to Low Rise 7, where a half-dozen students were held at gunpoint and two roommates, Young Hee Suh and Erin Nieswand, were murdered, Alphenaar and a friend simply talk their way into a building without ID. “It turns out, it is about as easy to enter the dorm as it was 42 years ago,” writes Alphenaar. A sharp piece of reporting that doubles as a plea against forgetting.
In the past few months, I asked several of my friends if they had heard of this tragedy. Almost every person I asked knew next to nothing. They had either never heard of it or were only vaguely aware of the details. If they had any information at all, it was largely inaccurate. In historical newspapers and even court records, it is constantly confused that Kim and Young Hee were dating or that Kim was a “spurned lover.” If my friends knew anything about this tragedy, it was through this lens. But this is a cruel misrepresentation of the facts. Kim was an obsessed stalker who harassed a teenage girl before killing her and her roommate.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2026/03/10/young-hee-suh-murder-cornell/
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