Football fans walk past police perimeter tape after one person was killed in an explosion in a traffic circle about 100 yards from a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night, Oct. 1, 2005, in what authorities were calling a suicide. (AP Photo)

U. of Okla. Blast Apparent Suicide

The Associated Press
Saturday, October 1, 2005; 11:18 PM

NORMAN, Okla. -- One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide.

The blast, in a traffic circle about 100 yards from Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, could be heard by some in the crowd of 84,000, but university President David Boren said no one inside the stadium was ever in danger.