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Virginia Tech Massace - 3pidemiC - 04-16-2007
This is horrible. This is unreal.<!--quoteo<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE</div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecNEW: Four hospitals report 29 wounded• Police chief says at least 22 people are dead, including gunman• Attacks mark deadliest school shooting in U.S. history• Student describes situation as "mayhem"; says 2 students jumped from windowAdjust font size
ecrease fontDecrease fontEnlarge fontEnlarge font(CNN) -- A lone gunman is dead after police said he killed at least 21 people Monday during twin shootings on the Virginia Tech campus -- the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history.Government officials told The Associated Press that the death toll had grown to 31, including the gunman. CNN is working to confirm the report."Some victims were shot in a classroom," university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said during a news conference in Blacksburg.Police believe there was only one gunman, Flinchum said. (Watch the police chief explain where bodies were found Video)Spokespersons for hospitals in Roanoke, Christiansburg, Blacksburg and Salem told CNN that they were treating 29 people from the shootings.Sharon Honaker with Carilion New River Medical Center in Christiansburg said one of the four gunshot victims being treated there was in critical condition."Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university President Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified." (Map of Blacksburg)The killings mark the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, surpassing attacks at Columbine High School in 1999 and at the University of Texas in 1966.One person was killed and others were wounded at multiple locations inside a dormitory about 7:15 a.m., Flinchum said. Two hours later, another shooting at Norris Hall, the engineering science and mechanics building, resulted in multiple casualties, the university reported. (Campus map)The first reported shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a coed dormitory that houses 895 students. The dormitory, one of the largest residence halls on the 2,600-acre campus, is located near the drill field and stadium.Amie Steele, editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, said one of her reporters at the dormitory reported "mass chaos."The reporter said there were "lots of students running around, going crazy, and the police officers were trying to settle everyone down and keep everything under control," according to Steele. (Watch police, ambulances hustle to the scene Video)Kristyn Heiser said she was in class about 9:30 a.m. when she and her classmates saw about six gun-wielding police officers run by a window."We were like, 'What's going on?' Because this definitely is a quaint town where stuff doesn't really happen. It's pretty boring here," said Heiser during a phone interview as she sat on her classroom floor.Student reports 'mayhem'Student Matt Waldron said he did not hear the gunshots because he was listening to music, but he heard police sirens and saw officers hiding behind trees with their guns drawn."They told us to get out of there so we ran across the drill field as quick as we could," he said.Waldron described the scene on campus as "mayhem." (Watch a student's recording of police responding to loud bangs Video)"It was kind of scary," he said. "These two kids I guess had panicked and jumped out of the top-story window and the one kid broke his ankle and the other girl was not in good shape just lying on the ground."Madison Van Duyne said she and her classmates in a media writing class were on "lockdown" in their classrooms. They were huddled in the middle of the classroom, writing stories about the shootings and posting them online.The university is updating its more than 26,000 students through e-mails, and an Internet webcam is broadcasting live pictures of the campus.The shootings came three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported.Last August, the first day of classes was cut short by a manhunt after an escaped prisoner was accused of killing a security guard at a Blacksburg hospital and a sheriff's deputy.After the Monday shootings, students were instructed to stay indoors and away from windows, police at the university said."Virginia Tech has canceled all classes. Those on campus are asked to remain where they are, lock their doors and stay away from windows. Persons off campus are asked not to come to campus," a statement on the university Web site said.Before Monday, the deadliest school shootings came in 1966 and 1999.In the former, Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine, killed 13 people on the University of Texas campus. He was killed by police.In 1999, 17-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18-year-old Eric Harris -- armed with guns and pipe bombs -- killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEnd
Virginia Tech Massace - LustigManiac - 04-16-2007
Yeah, this is horrible. I just got off the phone with some friends that are down there. They said it is nuts. But all i know are accounted for down there so that makes it a little easier to continue my work for the day.Matt
Virginia Tech Massace - Colt45 - 04-16-2007
death count is up to 31 now. My sister just found out one of her friends was a victom....... <img src=\"http://forums.NIGHTOWLpro.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
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Virginia Tech Massace - shummy - 04-16-2007
Everytime I hear of stuff like this I cannot think of words to say - just speechlessMy thoughts and prayers go out to the families involved - even the people who think they came out unscathed from there will be affected with those images for life.Just beyond sad how anyone can be so unstable and take the lives of innocent peopleShummy
Virginia Tech Massace - Savage - 04-16-2007
Just watching this on the news now, it's just horrendous! My heart goes out to the victims and their families and friends. It's just totally sickening!
Virginia Tech Massace - Karkasman - 04-16-2007
Eyewitness Matt Kazee explianed that it was a full two to three hours after the shootings began that loudspeakers installed around the campus were used to warn students to stay indoors and that a shooter was on the loose. Quite how the killer was afforded so much time before any action was taken to stop him is baffling, especially considering the fact that the campus, according to Kazee, was crawling with police before the event happened due to numerous bomb threats that had been phoned in last week. The shootings came three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported. CNN quoted a student who was outraged at the delay in identifying and stopping the killer. "What happened today this was ridiculous. And I don't know what happened or what was going through this guy's mind," student Jason Piatt told CNN. "But I'm pretty outraged and I'll say on the record I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it — no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceling classes — they just mention that they're investigating a shooting two hours later at 9:22." He added: "That's pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they're sending out that e-mail, 22 more people got killed." The details that are beginning to emerge fill the criteria that this could very well be another government black-op that will be used as justification for more gun control and turing our schools into prisons, festooned with armed guards, surveillance cameras and biometric scanning to gain entry. Initial reports suggested there were two shooters, but the story quickly changed to just one shooter who later killed himself (as happens in almost all these cases) or was shot by police. Eyewitness accounts describe police hiding behind trees and failing to pursue the killer, while ordering the school to be placed on lockdown so nobody could escape the carnage as the killer picked off his targets with seemingly little interruption from the police. At the moment, the official death toll is 30, but could rise, making this the deadliest school shooting in history. If these figures are accurate, the casualty figures surpass those of the school shooting at Columbine in 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves. It is well documented that disturbing questions remain over the incident at Columbine. It is clear that authorities had prior knowledge of what was going to happen. Observers were in the area hours before the shooting took place. Articles from the Associated Press stated that ballistics from Columbine show that six of the thirteen victims were possibly shot and killed by Jefferson County SWAT.
Virginia Tech Massace - JoMaX - 04-17-2007
And you all say "Blame Canada".....man i wont even go there....this shit is happening everywhere these day's but man in the USA it is so damn easy to get your hand's on a gun it's not even funny.Up here in canada it's a pain in the ass just to get a bb gun.Im not knocking on ya'll american's lol im simply saying that the kid's nowaday's just dont seem to care about nothing anymore....they all think they are tough guy's and shit and if you even so much as look in their direction can cause quite a mishap.All i can say to people is be careful out there,that shit can happen when you least expect it.Im alway's checking my "six" or looking behind my back cause i simply cant go down without swinging.
Virginia Tech Massace - adamms - 04-17-2007
i live in christiansburg, which is right next to blacksburg where tech is (about 5-10 minutes) a friend of mine she works with a couple people who got killed and injured, luckily i wasnt over in that area i had just got off work and went to my internship which isnt in that way, but i had to call work to warn my friend who was getting off who goes to tech not to go over there, they had the whole town on lockdown, 2nd time now, back in august an escape convict got out and shot a cop, also someone else i think on the trail near our mall, pretty scary stuff, i really dont wanna go out and goto class today, im not sure who the victims are and i know plenty of people who goto tech, so if they release them please let me know as i dont watch the news much (to depressing anyway) so if thats release please PM me
Virginia Tech Massace - frosty - 04-17-2007
damn this is some sad news,so sorry for the victims of this.
Virginia Tech Massace - WestlakeDarkman - 04-21-2007
I've heard the killer was on medications and that may have caused him to snap. or he could have been a North Korean spy