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'Cops help kill 32 Students',
claims furious blogger
Anger follows tech college
massacre
John Oates
The
Register
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Blogs written by students at Virginia Tech University have expressed
fury at how police and university authorities dealt with the shooting
there yesterday.
Yesterday morning a man shot 32 students at the Virginia campus
before killing himself. A male and female student were shot at a
hall of residence early in the morning. Two hours after the initial
shooting the man returned and went on the rampage. It has been reported
that the original shooting resulted from the man looking for his
girlfriend and finding her with another student.
The Virginia Police Department received a 911 call from a dormitory
on the Virginia campus at about 7.15am. On arriving they found the
bodies of a male and female. This shooting was initially believed
to be an isolated incident. University authorities met at 9.00am to
discuss the situation and at 9.26am staff and students were told by
email of the killing and warned to be alert to suspicious activity.
At 9.45am the police got another 911 call that there was a shooting
at Norris Hall, an engineering block. When officers arrived at the
building they found the doors locked and heard gunshots. As officers
reached the second floor the gunshots stopped - the gunman had shot
himself. A further email sent to staff and students warned there
was a gunman on campus and they should stay inside and away from
windows.
Virginia Tech website has more information
here.
Some student bloggers blamed Virginia Tech president and the local
police for the tragedy. There are blogs
here and here and mobile
phone footage here.
A student run news website is
here.
The engineering department was the subject of two bomb threats
over recent weeks, which some believe should have indicated more
serious trouble ahead.
The National Rifle Association expressed its condolences "to
the families of Virginia Tech University and everyone else affected
by this horrible tragedy".
Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as an agricultural college and
is a renowned centre for science and technology. It has over 25,000
full-time students. Alumni include Nasa flight director Robert E
Castle Jr, and three astronauts.
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