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did anyone read about the shootings at VA tech? 21 people were killed before the gunman was either killed or took his life.

Gunman Kills 21 People at Virginia Tech
Gunman Is Dead But It's Unclear If He Took His Own Life
By SUE LINDSEY
AP
BLACKSBURG, Va. (April 16) - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed 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 university reported shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.

The name of the gunman was not released.

Up until Monday, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history took place in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire. He killed 16 people before he was gunned down by police. In the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo., in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

On Monday, one student was killed in a dorm and the others were killed in the classroom, Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum.

'Shocked and ... Horrified'
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger briefs the media on the massacre on his campus.

After the shootings, 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 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."

"We're all locked in our dorms surfing the Internet trying to figure out what's going on," Kanode said.

Madison Van Duyne, a student who was interviewed by telephone on CNN, said, "We are all in lockdown. Most of the students are sitting on the floors away from the windows just trying to be as safe as possible."


 

nysteerguy

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Almost makes you begin to worry about the world these days.  My prayers and heart goes out to the families.

-NYER
 

cowz

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I just heard the word.  It sends chills up my spine.  It seems like we just lived thru the Columbine High School and the Bailey High School thing here in Colorado.  Back east you just lived thru the Amish shooting.  It breaks my heart to see what the world is coming to.  College campuses are supposed to be a haven for all.
 

nysteerguy

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Yeah a marker of diversity not a shooting ground for depressed or downtrodden individuals.  I understand that there is a lot of hate in this world as well as violence but the combination always results in disaster.
 

red

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They've now got the death toll up to 31 people.
Please, just take a few moments to pray for the kids that died the ones injured & the ones that were there. Also pray for all their families & the family of the lost soul.

Red
 
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