Moody Towers are twin 18-story high-rise

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s located in the Wheeler District on the campus of the

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. It was named for William Lewis Moody, Jr. and his wife Libbie Shearn Moody of

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, and houses 1,100 students. The towers also house the largest

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on the campus. A mass shooting from atop Moody Towers was prevented when police arrested Albert J. Russell, Jr. in 1972. Russell, who was not a student, was trespassing on university property around the sixth anniversary of the mass shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, and attempted to go atop one of the towers with a loaded

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and a loaded

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. Upon arrest, he told police he would've shot people had he been allowed on the rooftop.

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