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Oh thank goodness…. Everyone I know who is attending has checked in with family. THey are all fine. The death toll is up to 31! Its so horrible.
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My art: featherdust.comYea, I just saw the breaking news report and they’re saying 32 were killed, 15 wounded, and the 33rd victim was the shooter who shot himself.
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsOMG!! 😯 I hadn’t heard about this at all, though I bet it will make the headlines even up here. My heart goes out to everyone down there.
foxfeather wrote:OMG!! 😯 I hadn’t heard about this at all, though I bet it will make the headlines even up here. My heart goes out to everyone down there.
It was on Global Edmonton atleast, and still on all the 24hr News stations.
What could possibly make anybody kill and hurt that many people? Its just terrible.
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Engaged to a WeaselJust heard it on the way into work (my cable has been in and out all day at the house because of the noreaster and winds playing with some of the lines). NPR spoke with one of the professors on the campus. He was located in the academic building (for engineering and sciences) that the second batch of shootings happened. He was in his office one floor above when the shootings started in. He heard the gunfire, saw people jumping from windows below and just locked his office and stayed until police broke the door in and told him to leave. He knew of one professor shot in the arm (stable) and another who was shot in the face and someplace else (unknown condition). The academic building is 1/2 mile from the dorms and, for reasons still unknown, police didn’t really arrive on campus, either in any real number or at all, after the first shooting at the dorm.
The police (as of this time) have not said whether the gunman was a student, alum, or what, but witnesses have said he was in his 20s. The guy apparently went into one classroom, chained the door shut so people couldn’t get out, and started shooting. When he left for a moment, those remaining barracaded the door with their feet and would not let him back in, though he tried.
Just a sick, disturbed individual. I don’t know if they will ever know why this guy did it. I checked and thankfully my fraternity doesn’t have a chapter there *whew*, but it’s heartbreaking just the same.
siberakh1 wrote:Just heard it on the way into work (my cable has been in and out all day at the house because of the noreaster and winds playing with some of the lines). NPR spoke with one of the professors on the campus. He was located in the academic building (for engineering and sciences) that the second batch of shootings happened. He was in his office one floor above when the shootings started in. He heard the gunfire, saw people jumping from windows below and just locked his office and stayed until police broke the door in and told him to leave. He knew of one professor shot in the arm (stable) and another who was shot in the face and someplace else (unknown condition). The academic building is 1/2 mile from the dorms and, for reasons still unknown, police didn’t really arrive on campus, either in any real number or at all, after the first shooting at the dorm.
The police (as of this time) have not said whether the gunman was a student, alum, or what, but witnesses have said he was in his 20s. The guy apparently went into one classroom, chained the door shut so people couldn’t get out, and started shooting. When he left for a moment, those remaining barracaded the door with their feet and would not let him back in, though he tried.
Just a sick, disturbed individual. I don’t know if they will ever know why this guy did it. I checked and thankfully my fraternity doesn’t have a chapter there *whew*, but it’s heartbreaking just the same.
Obviously there was something DEEPLY WRONG with that young man! What a callous thing to do!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18140727/site/newsweek/
The shooter didn’t just barracade the classroom. He tried to barricade the entire building 😯 Good thing he missed the construction entrance. This seems to give quite a bit more info than I’ve seen on some of the other reports.
His first attack was at 0715. Two and a half hours later he shot again. I see some serious laxness on the part of the college and police here – no excuse for the jerk who did the shooting, of course. They claim he used .22 and 9 mil – extremely weak calibers. A person has to be hit several times in the right places to die from those – and he managed 32. He must have been lugging quite a bit of ammo and reloaded often. One person says he unloaded about thirty shots on entering a room. Unless his 9 mil had an extended mag it maxed out at 18 rounds and .22s generally use 10 round mags. That confirms his indiscriminate shooting; it also shows he was quite cool and collected since that would require, as I said, a lot of reloading, round by round. I’m waiting for details on this.
I watched CNN tonight. They had a student on that taped the police going around a building and there were 29 shots heard on the tape. The student was from the Middle East – he chose to go to Virginia Tech to get away from the violence of his homeland. The definition of irony.
One student talked about how they used their bodies to wedge the door shut after the gunman shot several people, left and tried to return. I can’t even begin to imagine how they felt.
A woman I know was telling me that her son has been accepted to VT and they got 2 “Welcome to VT” letters in the mail today. He was planning on going there and all she could think was that if this was next year she would have been one of the parents trying to find out if her son was alive or dead. How does the school, the students and the faculty recover from something like this?
ddvm wrote:I watched CNN tonight. They had a student on that taped the police going around a building and there were 29 shots heard on the tape. The student was from the Middle East – he chose to go to Virginia Tech to get away from the violence of his homeland. The definition of irony.
Figures. 🙄
I heard there was a possibility of two gunmen? There was also description of an Asian-looking guy in a sweatshirt. And the radio correspondent talked about automatic weapons. If those were involved, and the shooters were foreigners, you can bet the guns were illegally obtained. Of course the anti-gun freaks will completely ignore that…
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