At Least 32 Dead in Virginia Campus Shooting!!!
MASSACRE ON CAMPUS!!
Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. (AP)
The Jawa Report...
A photo from campus.
(It is not clear who this person is who was arrested.)
Wizbang may know who this man is.
WSLS has live streaming coverage -HERE-
It is not yet clear if the killer was a student or outsider.
Just heard that the killer was a student, an Asian man.
The first shootings occurred around 7:15 AM.
The second shootings happened two hours later!
At least 32 are dead including the shooter at Virginia Tech!
BOMB THREATS: On Friday, a bomb threat on campus forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, and earlier this month the Torgerson Hall dormitory was evacuated after a bomb threat.
The the school's website says shooting occurred at opposite ends of the campus!
** Local WAVY has a video report.
Location of the reported shootings (MAP COURTESTY ROANOKE.COM)
An Asian student(?) opened fire in a dorm at Virginia Tech.
At least 32 students are reported dead!
The latest from the AP:
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech campus police chief says at least 22 are dead after a shooting the university.It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.
Gunfire erupted in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday.
The university told students to stay inside and away from windows as police swept the campus and worked to establish whether the gunman acted alone.
On the website, Tech reported the shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and said there were "multiple victims" at Norris Hall, an engineering building.
All entrances to the campus were closed and classes canceled through Tuesday.
"There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on," said student Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the dorm where shooting took place.
Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the 4th floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.
"They had us under lockdown," Kanode said. "They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again."
From the school website (that is swamped with traffic and very slow):
In addition to an earlier shooting today in West Ambler Johnston, there has been a multiple shooting with multiple victims in Norris Hall.The Collegiate Times newspaper has a timeline on the shootings.
Police and EMS are on the scene.
Police have one shooter in custody and as part of routine police procedure, they continue to search for a second shooter.
Law enforcement officers arrive at the scene of a shooting at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. Gunfire erupted in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 22 people, the police chief said. The gunman was killed. (AP Photo/WDBJ via CNN)
Virginia Tech has the largest full-time student population in Virginia, with more than 25,000 students. It consists of eight colleges and graduate school and offers 60 bachelor's degree programs and 140 master's and doctoral degree programs.
Law enforcement officers take cover behind a tree during the investigation of a shooting at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. (AP)
FOX News reports this, "The shooter was "wearing a vest covered in clips was just unloading on their door, going from classroom to classroom... they said it never seemed like it was going to stop and there was just blood all over."
MSNBC- Attacker was a young American male and killed himself after the murders.
32 Dead 28 Injured. Worst ever campus shooting!
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Pajamas Media has a roundup.
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Dan Riehl
Jammie Wearing Fool
Captain's Quarters
Protein Wisdom has more on the campus rules.
Flopping Aces has video.
OPFOR has disgusting/typical reaction from the Left.
Dr. Helen asks an important question.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/16/2007 11:46:00 AM
4 Comments:
Why was this university not locked down with the first killing? For 2 3/4 hours the killer roamed the campus. Students were sent damned emails about an "isolated incident". Is this how the university's security handles a murder by calling it an "isolated incident"? And classes were allowed to continue?
Someone needs to ask some serious questions about Va Tech's security policies.
Emails? Give me a break. Most students with 9:00 classes don't roll out of bed until 8:30.
A former FBI agent just reported to FNC that she called her daughter and told her to stay in her dorm room behind a locked door and not go to class. She then called campus security and told them to lock down the campus. They blew her off and told her they were too busy to talk to her.
If he is a white or oriental, the MSM will be all over gun control.
If he is black, they will be all over how white people picked on him, and gun control.
If he is a muslim, this story will be buried, because then if they start talking about gun control, even the usual liberal lemmings will say "wait a minute, why not just get rid og the muslims!!"
I agree-- the msm will blame it on the lack on "gun control"-- except that they already have gun control on the campus, didn't seem to do much good. Some interesting posts on Free Republic:
http://www.freerepublic.com:80/focus/f-news/1818224/posts
The shooter is allegedly a Chinese man in the USA on a student visa, but who is not enrolled in any university.
This incident should be compared to the U. Texas campus tower incident in 1966. That brain cancer-deranged shooter was shot by a combination of police and fellow students who pulled rifles out of their car trunks and began firing back in self-defense. If there were no armed students on the UTx campus in 1966, the death toll would have been higher as the shooter in the tower had a commanding vantage point of the entire campus.
CW
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