Va Tech

http://www.cnn.com/

I hope everyone here is ok!! This is horrible!

At least 20 people were killed in two shootings when a lone gunman opened fire on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg on Monday, police said. Police said they believe the shooter also is dead. Amie Steele, editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, said one of her reporters at one of the dormitories where the shootings took place reported "mass chaos."

I was just on the phone with one of my friends who is on campus right now...

He said its absolute mayhem...no one knows anything...

Whoa!!! That's scary! I just read this from our local paper's website..

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Officials announced at a press conference that "at least 20" have been killed in two separate shootings at Virginia Tech this morning. The gunmen is dead. (12:31 p.m.)

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Edit- Opps sorry. I must have skipped over that in the original post. :oops:

thanks for the update daaang... at least the killing should be over for the day :(

http://www.nbc12.com/home/7044827.html

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

By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 31, but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

The name of the gunman was not immediately released, and investigators offered no motive for the attack. It was not clear if the gunman was a student.

The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus, with witnesses reporting students jumping out the windows of a classroom building to escape the gunfire. SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

The bloodbath took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.

Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm when they got word of gunfire at the classroom building.

After the first shots were fired, students were warned to stay indoors and away from the windows. But some students said they thought the precautions had been lifted by the time the second burst of gunfire was heard, and some bitterly questioned why the gunman was able to strike a second time, two hours after the bloodshed began.

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack, "but all avenues will be explored."

people are so sick!

I just read about that on CNN

Poor people. I hope no one else dies!

This is heartbreaking and so confusing for me to try to get my mind around. Hours went by between the shootings and yet classes went on with access doors unlocked (or it seems so since this gunman moved freely across campus and into another Hall)? I just watched video from someone's cell phone and you can hear the shots ringing out. It's beyond horrifying to think what each shot means.

I cannot begin to imagine the horror of this for the students, faculty and their families. They are in my prayers.

I just got off the phone with one of my friends who has been in touch with another one of my friends at Va Tech. My phone is dead and I could not remember the number of my tech friend. But she is safe and waiting for word on one of her friends who was in one of the buildings that the shooting occured in.

My heart goes out to the friends and families of the victims.