It is now being reported that the gunman has been arrested; however, there may be several casualties.
"Gunman is loose on the campus" at Virginia Tech.
One person is reported dead, another wounded:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...=1&oref=slogin
It is now being reported that the gunman has been arrested; however, there may be several casualties.
One of my former grad students is working on his PhD there and just emailed us to let us know he was safe--they did evacuate him from one building, and they have a group of them confined in another building for safety. Very scary.
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They are now saying 20... 20 ARE DEAD. That is stunning. That kind of thing simply does not happen. This appears to be worse than Columbine (13 dead plus 2 shooters). Just terrifying. Thoughts and prayers with the entire Va Tech community.
--Jason
Here in Richmond, this is a full internet event as information is sought. News seems to get worse and worse. People receiving information with stunned belief; reserving reactions; trading info on whose children attend, who have been accounted for.
22 dead, several wounded, air rescue impossible due to weather, gunman dies by his own hand (day too late)
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Holy christ. What in the hell happened?
So many dead... SO many wounded. And I read on CNN that there were two seperate incidents; one at 7:15 AM and another 2 hours later?
Hard to even wrap your mind around. What a horrible thing.
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They got the date wrong. These things are supposed to happen on the 19th or 20th, not the 16th.
4/19 was Paul Revere's midnight ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Also Waco, not Ruby Ridge. Ruby Ridge was in August.
April 20 was Columbine.
Today is the official celebration of Patriot's Day, however, so maybe they were going for that.
If you find this interesting, Germany's equivalent is November 9.
WDBJ in Roanoke is reporting some students are being treated for injuries related to falls whereas some trying to escape their situation by jumping from buildings at heights as much as 4 stories. Right now they just concluded a report from early this morning from someone on telephone, gunshots audible in the background, lots of gunshots.
Things like this don't begin to make sense. Look for another media crackdown just like after the Columbine shootings, only I guess GTA wil take the place of Marilyn Manson.
TV reports at least one faculty member in treatment.
Incoming reports are now saying anywhere from 29-32 dead. This is ridiculous. I don't know how people cope with things like this.
Hi,
One of the jobs I held at Duke, for only a semester or two it was just too much of a bother to keep it, was to lock the doors to a women's dorm at midnight to keep people without a card-key out. Monday through Thursday was usually pretty uneventful. On Friday and Saturday nights it was a different story. I was called every name in the book by various women who lived in the building who didn't want to bother to carry their card-key or they wanted a friend to come visit. When I explained it was for their safety, my goodness, many a woman would then explode even more. I found the best line was actually to just say, "Just doing my job." I got a few choice words about how poor I must be to be doing such a lowly job sometimes too. Duke could be a really loving, fun place to work. Anyway, when I see this kind of thing at VaTech I wonder how easy or hard it was for the perpetrator to get in the building. He might have been a student making my point moot.
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Many are critical and currently in surgery. Many more casualties may end from this. May God bless them all.