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Big shooting at Virginia Tech
Topic Started: Apr 16 2007, 11:33 AM (272 Views)
CR49
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So far 20 people dead,28 injured and suspect is dead. Winds are also too bad to fly anyone out by helicopter and some of the closest hospitals are full.
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thats fucking horrible.. glad davids not there anymore
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KK3869
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Holy crap. RIP to the victims :(
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radicalstick
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Heard that at work. Holy crap.

Apparently it was two shootings, no one knows if they were related or not?
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Now it's 32 dead and 32 injured, 4 of those in critical condition. They're calling it the worst shooting in American history.
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wow, my goodness. What a fucking loser!

My thoughts and prayers are with those of Virginia Tech.
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Wow....RIP to the victims :(
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d_drosback29
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I just went there last October to look around and I really liked it but just a few weeks ago, I decided on NC State over VT. This is just awful. I know several people there and I hope they are alright.
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This hits way to close to home. Fuckin terrifing knowing David went there. Glad he wasnt there during this :(

Prayers go out to the victums....fuckin pathetic people in this world
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I'm sick to my stomach over it.
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Ram Jam
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Man a couple of my friends are still down there, but luckily I got ahold of them and they're ok. The dorm from the first shooting was right between the 2 I lived in while I was there and it's the biggest on the campus when you factor in the East and West wings. And I did have classes in Norris Hall a few times. And it's a shame he went in there because there are very few ways out of that building. It's very archaic compared to the buildings around it. Lucky he didn't go in the main lecture hall because that can hold hundreds of people I had biology and something else in that room and it just goes way up.
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Both shootins were from the same man but at different times. How horrible 2007 has been, RIP
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Well it hit even closer then I thought. A girl from my school was killed. She was a couple grades under me. I didnt know her but its really surreal knowin someone you passed in the hall everyday for years just died cause of some fucked up psychopath.
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Wow. fucking horrible and im at a loss for words over it.

I just dont get why the Campus police or whatever didnt make an announcement over it and warn people if the gunman was still at large.

RIP to the victims and my thoughts and prayers are with them :(
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Ram Jam
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They did send out an email after the first one, granted it was like 45 minutes later. Although the way they worded it, it made it sound like everything was over so people still went to class.
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A guy who was a couple grades ahead of me was killed. One of my friends also had a friend that was killed.
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A guy I went to school with from 6th through 12th was drafted or however someone gets onto the College Football team and when they said two people from Georgia were among the dead and showed a picture, I knew it was him. Fortunately probably isn't the right word to use here but I can't think of anything else to use, it wasn't him.
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Got this from another forum I go to:

This was part of the TCRL Newsletter this week. One of our members Matt McCombs was in the room when the shooting happened. He lived to tell this very sad story, here it is:

As some of you that know me may know, I am a student at Virginia Tech. I am an engineering student, in hopes of becoming a crew chief in NASCAR. As most of you know, tragedy struck Virginia Tech yesterday. A crazed gunman murdered 32 innocent students. I was in the room when the gunman came in, and I was very fortunate and was blessed by God to have made it out alive. However, many of these lives could have been saved...

Many people have asked me this, and yes, I knew the gunman. Well, let me take that back, I knew who he was. I had seen him around a few times, and had attempted to socialize with him before. Since we lived in the same dorm hall on campus (Harper Hall), a while back, I figured I'd try to be nice and social, and I even tried to make him laugh and feel welcome, because at the time, I knew he didn't have many, if any, friends, and I was trying to be nice to him. I could tell I was bothering him, so I just cut my losses and moved on, but I knew that something was wrong with him.

Well, lo and behold, the English professor (the killer majored in English) had noticed these things too. When students were required to write plays, the killer's were always about blood and gore, death, and suffering. The professor tried to talk with him about the plays, and suggested that he saw a counselor, but the killer refused. She notified the police about this, and the tree-hugging dirt-worshipping liberals (employed by the state of Virginia, which is run by Democrats) in charge of the police refused to do anything about it. They claimed there wasn't enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, or do something to try and stop something like this from happening. This isn't the only time that it seems like they went out of their way to let something like this happen (but it wasn't just the tree-hugging dirt-worshipping liberals that went out of their way to let this happen).

Now it's Monday morning, and I'm up at an ungodly time in the morning, getting ready for said engineering class that I'm in and said engineering class that the gunman opened fire on. All of a sudden, I hear a gunshot. I was scared ****less. At that point, I remembered my conversation with the killer, and I knew it was he. I picked up a knife I have for self defense (the school doesn't allow firearms on campus, which I'm sure is part of the reason why this happened, because the gunman knew that nobody could return fire) and ran to class as fast as my legs would carry me to alert my professor. I told the professor about the gunshot, and showed him my knife (which was a dumb move on my part) saying that we need to protect ourselves. The professor was in complete denial (he must have thought it was a practical joke). He told me that there was no way that something like that could have happened without his knowing of it (teachers and students were notified about the first shooting after the second shooting had already taken place). He took away my knives, and said he wouldn't report me to the authorities because I was such a good student. I tried to persuade him, but he refused to believe me.



Anyway, a short time afterward, the classroom door opened. There's the killer. With a gun. He shoots, and everybody goes nuts. I would have tried to catch him off guard and stab him if I had a knife. So I had to take plan B. I opened a window, and got the heck outta dodge, and lots of other people followed. But I had watched a large number of my friends die right in front of me, and there was nothing that I could have done about it. Talk about traumatizing. It makes me sick that the killer did it without any remorse, and it makes me even sicker that he turned the gun on himself. I would have wanted to take part in the pleasure of killing him, but he knew that I and lots of other students there would do so, so he turned the gun on himself.

The professor that I tried to warn was killed in the tragedy. I warned him. I'll let you be the judge on whether or not that was karma, but I'm not going to comment on it, and it is a sad loss nonetheless. I had never witnessed something like that, and I was scared ****less.

Lots of people have told me that VT isn't safe, and that I should get the heck outta dodge. I have to disagree. I love VT to death, and it was a safe campus. It was just one man who went completely berserk. It's a shame how one person can completely ruin the reputation of a school and affect thousands and thousands of people.

I feel blessed by God to be still alive, and to have made it out without getting hit at all. I feel very lucky to be alive and to tell you guys about my experience. I feel that God was watching over me that day. I ask for your thoughts and prayers during this difficult tragedy, and I'm going to take a few days off here at GameFAQs to mourn the deaths of my dear friends and fellow VT students and faculty, as I'm sure you all can understand. Thanks for your time, and I guess I have made you all read enough.
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Wow, I'm still in awe about everything that has happened. Even though I'm a Longhorn, I think everyone in college is a Hokie this week. I've been watching the news, reading blogs and stuff on the internet and it just makes me sad, really sad.

One thing I still don't understand was the fact that of the early shooting, I mean you had a crime scene just feet away off the classrooms and the security team can still say that it was an isolated event? I mean what the fuck? You have no killer and you have thousands of students studying, they should've evacuated. I remember last year when this English teacher had a heart attack and this girl came out screaming "Help, someone call 911!" and immediately they evacuated us out even though they didn't know that it was only an isolated event. I mean not only that but on all the videos you have local and state police going into the early shooting and not one of them told everyone to get out? Looks like they fell asleep on that one. Today and yesterday there was a different feel to it going and being at school, we were all looking over our shoulders and hoping nobody would come through the door and do a similar thing because yesterday this high school loser threatened to kill two students but then he chose to kill himself instead and there was a bomb threat on the Minnesota University. You never know and I hope to god that I never encounter something like this in my life. I've had enough of close calls in my life.
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It sucks but the week of April 20th is always gonna be haunted and someone is always gonna do something stupid and its really unfortunate. :down:
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Girl in a few of my classes' brother was in the same dorm as the first shootings and would normally have classes where the 2nd shootings took place later that day
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I would agree with that guy. I mean I didn't like school but I never felt unsafe at VT. But they have a history of not doing anything like this unfortunately. Some prisoner escaped my senior year there and was on the loose around there somewhere and they never told us until right before they caught him. Thankfully no one got hurt (at least on campus can't remember if he got anyone else though) during that.
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We have had more request for Virginia Tech stuff at my store than ever before.
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Just in case anyone is interested. But here's a site where you can talk about how you feel while you're at school, and pretty much how you feel about yourself, you can also send your condolences(sp) to the Virgina Tech victims.

http://www.halfofus.com/

Some of them stories are heart-breaking.
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