Va Tech Campus lockdown
 

Gunman on the loose....classes cancelled. Police telling people to stay inside and away from windows.

6 injurned and 1 confirmed dead.

:(

link....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266310,00.html

Tragic!!
20 dead, 28 wounded....shooter dead.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vte...ing/index.html

22 dead. Sad day.

very SAD !! 22 dead, 20 injuried, shooter dead.. campus still locked down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/..._tech_shooting


scary stuff....one of my co-workers wife works at Tech...she is fine.

This is horrible yet i'm not shocked. It's a sad commentary on society.

Our Regional Managers son goes to Va Tech and I know we have a member on this board who has a son that goes there as well.

I've read on a few blogs that the shooter was asian and used 2 9mm's and murdered the victims execution style.

Question: Would you do what this guy says after seeing him murder your classmates? I'd definitely try to communicate with my classmates and try to distract this guy by throwing a desk at him.

How terribly awful. :(

This is terrible. RIP to the innocent people killed. :(

from what I am hearing...one of the victims was the gunman's girlfriend.

Once again, we will have more questions than answers...so terrible! Apparently a single gunman at two sites three hours apart...many questions!

blackburgs virginia tech
 

:mad: wow what is this world coming to. very sad

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/..._tech_shooting

Reminds me of the Univ. of Texas shootings many years ago where the gunman shot all those people from the campus clock tower.

Terrible news and very frightening for parents who send their kids away to schools. I guess it can happen on any campus.:mad:

Now reported...31 fatalities.
I've got tears.

31 dead, apparently when the gunman got to the building that housed the classrooms he chain locked the doors of the building,,,,,what is this world coming to!!!

Well AP and CNN report 31 dead, two at Roanoke level one trauma center and four others in surgery at local hospital...29 injured total...some with broken bones from fleeing etc. Simply unbelievable that one person could do this...now the deadliest shooting incident of any kind in US history.

Very somber mood around here. This city lives for Va Tech (have seen polls stating 50% of Roanokes population are Tech alums)...many people walking with that dazed look in their eyes.

Very sad day indeed...

One of the girls they had on was saying she was going back home to Roanoke. How horrible! :(

Condolences to all those involved...RIP....what a sad day :(

Sorry to hear the news on this to all involved try and stay strong. Anyway I have a fool proof plan if this ever happens to me. I'd hide and wait for the person to come thru a doorway and hit'em with the CO2 fire extenuisher in the face. 1st off not air to breath because of the co2 & 2nd the element of surprise. I know everything happens so quick sometimes but I think about these things. What to do in times like these. Some will say it's easy to talk about doing something but if 10 of us rush him someone's bound to get to him. Flight 93 comes to mind. I'd be ready to say "let's roll" myself.

you bring up a good point--it never hurts to have a plan for any eventuality. problem is, a lot of well-laid plans fly out the window when panic sets in.

i understand now that that toll is up to 33. what a horrible, tragic day for everyone. my sympathies to the families and friends of those who were killed.

i guess the bastard gunman figured why not a couple dozen rather than just a couple. sickening.

Just came across the TV here...State of Emergency has been declared from 6:00pm-8:00 tonight...

I'm in Asheville, on the way home from Lexington. After checking in I see that 33 students are dead, and more still in the hospitals.

There is a tremendous problem here with school officials allowing the first shootings to go 2 hours+ unreported to the student body allowing more students to be killed when the murderer moved to another building.

This is so horribly sad for your community Kevin. Please tell your neighbors and friends that the country mourns with them.

Horrible carnage.

As long as GPK is ok, I could care less. unless others have love ones, then I care about them also

The university president said the dorm shooting was under control....


this guy needs to resign right now. What a moron.

They put a f'n jet pack on Katie Couric's ass, couldn't have gotten their any faster

This is from prisonplanet.com:

Eyewitness Matt Kazee told the Alex Jones Show 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."
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.

Im fine, of course. Just worried more about the friends I work with that have loved ones that attend/work at Tech.

As I said..there is also a board member on here with a son that attends the university.

My Son Is Fine Thank You All For Asking
 

First I want to say thank you to the many inquiries concerning my son who is an engineering fourth year student at Virginia Tech. He was unharmed in a building 50 feet from the shootings in Norris.

Ironically as a high school senior Jake, had his senior soccer season ruined by similiar terror during the many weeks in October 2002 that the"DC sniper" was on the loose in Montgomery County Maryland/Northern Virginia area killing 10 in multiple shootings over a three week period. It was common place that fall to have the high school campuses locked down where outdoor activity was forbidden while the insanity of gunmen Malfo and Muhammed eluded police picking off innocent citizens literally down the street from where we live.

How utterly repulsive that these students again will equate their education with malicious violence of previously unknown proportions.

By the grace of God he and his other friends from here have been spared and I am very grateful to all here who were kind enough to inquire

DrD

Good deal Doc....glad to hear from you.

Doc, that is absolutely wonderful news. absolutely wonderful

I was kinda following the story throughout the day. I find it hard to believe that the school was not locked down after the 1st shooting in the dorm. There is no excuse for that. I wonder what goes through peoples minds for real. I mean damn, if you want to off yourself, fine, can't say I never thought about it. Why do some insist on taking as many with them as they can? I feel very sorry for the victims and thier families.

I'm glad your son and his friends are OK! This was a horrible event, it is impossible for me to understand the inhumanity that must drive a person to commit such an act. It is a cruel world, American kids die in Iraq and in Virginia...I wish I had answers instead of so many questions.

Thank God your son is OK. Thanks for checking in with us...

Come on Somer...give it a rest. Incredibly inappropriate to even bring that into this thread. I like you alot...but let's leave the political agendas out of something of such a sensitive nature as this tragedy. Time and a place for everything...

Sometimes people lose their grip on reality. I see this incident this way.......

Someone went nuts and killed many people in Va

People die every day from similar type incidents, just not on this scale

So now, many people will feed off this. But in reality, it is just another episode of someone going nuts and killing people. Fact is, many will look for comfort and sympathy that have nothing to do with this.

Fact is, several people should be without a job. THE BALL WAS DROPPED BETWEEN 7AM AND 10AM.

How many people die every day from..........................................

cancer, aids, shootings, drugs, alcohol, wrong way drivers, bad pet food I could go on and on

Bad deal that will enable many people who have no bearing, no interest in the situation to feed their life, their ego off it

I feel for those involved, but my life goes on unchanged

Meanwhile the grieving familes will go on

What? What human has died from eating bad pet food?

thats it ya'll...keep these kinda posts coming....


unreal....