Saturday, December 17 2005 12:37 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Cleveland: A former graduate student from India was convicted yesterday (Dec 16, 2005) of killing a student in a seven-hour shooting rampage at Case Western Reserve University that wounded two others.

Biswanath Halder, 65, went to the university's business school on May 9, 2003, with more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition because he believed a school employee hacked into a Website he devoted to helping fellow India natives form businesses.

Halder, originally from Calcutta, was convicted of aggravated murder, and the jury was still reading its decisions on 195 other felony counts in Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court. Earlier in the trial, the judge dismissed a terrorism charge.

Halder could be sentenced to death for the murder charge.