[wannabeabonedoc]

Second time in 9 months. Why can't people just act fuggin normal and not kill 20+ people. Friggin ass-hats...
http://www.wsls.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSLS/MGArticle/SLS_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350761291


this is how I feel. I hope they catch the freaker and shoot him in the face.

 

[Bearmntpicnic]

yeah its 22 now. Thats rediculous. Do you know if it was a student? I read that it was a 17 year old

 

[Sir_Crackien]

i know what you are talking about but the link no worky.

i know its on cnn.com though

 

[corey_rideDC]

link works fine over here. this is really sad. my wife's cousin and his wife are down there, hope they're okay...

 

[G-spot]

I hope that everyone down there is copping ok, I know we have a few monkeys from that area.My deepist sorrow to the families who have lost someone and speedy recovery to those who were injuried and hope thing return to normal very fast.

 

[mud'n'sweat]

Damn close to home this time. In a town you never would have guessed none the less. Glad you are okay Pete.

 

[VT Mtbkr]

Hard to believe that my Alma Matter will now be known as the location of the deadliest school shooting in history.

 

[SK6]

My prayers and tears go out to all of the families and students effected by the horrible situation that had occurred there today.

 

[wannabeabonedoc]

According to local news, deadliest was 45 people. I just can't fathom what would cause someone to shoot 50+ people. That's a lot of freakin ammo.... sheesh

 

[Konabumm]

Hard to believe that my Alma Matter will now be known as the location of the deadliest school shooting in history.

32 killed 29 injured -

correction - deadliest MASS MURDER in US HISTORY!

 

[dan wask]

My brother was on campus at the time, and his girlfriend was in the engineering building. Luckily both of them are fine.

What happened was this guy broke up with his girlfriend, went to her dorm and started shooting people in the dorm at aroun 7:30-8 am. The police decided that with the almost 4 people killed in the dorm that it was alright not to shut down the campus. At this point the guy was making his way across the drill field to the engineering building.

 

[TCP21]

its now at 32 and that is sooo ****ed up

 

[mtwhore]

I rode with a sophmore @ VT last summer. He rode a chumba or mt cycle with hot rod suspension. I hope hes cool.
The media seems to be loven this. that police chief and dean are earning there coins.

 

[SK6]

There's the whole VT freeride and DH group out there....

 

[wannabeabonedoc]

We've got a pretty good listserv for the VTfreeride team and nothing's come across there. If I hear anything from anyone on there, I'll let you guys know... this is just insanity....

 

[MikeT]

the world ended for a lot of people today. hurts more when it's close to home. I pray for the injured

 

[SK6]

yeah. I know many of us are worrying it might be someone we know.

 

[BigMike]

All my prayers to those in Blacksburg and those that have friends in Blacksburg. Thankfully, all of my friends are safe, but that does not make up for the others.

 

[SK6]

(CNN) -- The gunman who killed 30 people at Virginia Tech's Norris Hall before turning the gun on himself was student Cho Seung-Hui, university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.

University officials said they were still trying to determine if Cho was responsible for an earlier shooting at a dormitory that left two dead.

However, Flinchum said ballistics tests show that one of the two guns recovered at Norris Hall was used at Norris and at the dorm. (Watch police disclose new information about the shooter )

Cho, a 23-year-old South Korean and resident alien, lived at the university's Harper Hall, Flinchum said. He was an English major, the chief said.

Cho was a loner and authorities are having a hard time finding information about him, said Harry Hincker, associate vice president for university relations.

The university and police are still in the process of releasing the names of the 32 people killed in Monday's shootings. (Watch how some are asking why warnings weren't issued sooner )

"What went on during that incident certainly caused tremendous chaos and panic in Norris Hall," Col. Steven Flaherty of the Virginia State Police said, describing how victims were found in four classrooms and the stairwell of the school's engineering science and mechanics building.

A doctor at a Blacksburg hospital described the injuries he saw Monday as "amazing" and the shooter as "brutal."

"There wasn't a shooting victim that didn't have less than three bullet wounds in them," said Dr. Joseph Cacioppo of Montgomery Regional Hospital.

Even among the less serious injuries, Cacioppo said, "we saw one patient that had a bullet wound to the wrist, one to the elbow and one to the thigh. We had another one with a bullet wound to the abdomen, one to the chest and one to the head."

A source familiar with the investigation said the weapons found at Norris were a Walther .22-caliber semi-automatic and a 9 mm Glock -- both with the serial numbers filed off. (Watch how quickly these guns can be fired, reloaded )

Details surface
The day's first shooting, at the West Ambler Johnston dormitory, which houses 895 students, occurred about 7:15 a.m.

At the time of the later shootings at Norris Hall, police were investigating a "person of interest" in the dormitory shootings, Flinchum said Monday.

During the Tuesday news conference, Flinchum said the person of interest was an acquaintance of a woman killed at the dorm.

Flaherty said authorities were still investigating whether Cho had any accomplices in planning or executing Monday's rampage.

Steger told reporters Monday that police found the front doors of Norris Hall chained shut and that by the time they got to the second floor, the gunfire stopped.

Authorities say they believed the dorm shooting was an "isolated incident" and were still investigating it when the slaughter occurred at the other campus building, Norris Hall. (Officials thought shooter had fled)

The gunman killed 31 people, including himself, and wounded 15 in Norris Hall classrooms.

Steger: Police thought dorm shooting was isolated
Steger on Tuesday defended the university response to the dorm shooting, saying police believed it to be "a domestic fight, perhaps a murder-suicide" that was contained to one dorm room. (Watch the police chief explain where bodies were found )

Police cordoned off the dorm and all residents were told about the shooting as police looked for witnesses, Steger said.

"I don't think anyone could have predicted that another event was going to take place two hours later," Steger said, adding that it would've been difficult to warn every student because most were off campus at the time. (Watch a student's recording of police responding to loud bangs )

The gunman was dressed "almost like a Boy Scout" and wore a black ammunition vest, said a student who survived by pretending to lie dead on a classroom floor.

"He just stepped within five feet of the door and just started firing," said Erin Sheehan. "He seemed very thorough about it, getting almost everyone down, I pretended to be dead." (Watch student describe surviving by playing dead )

The shooter, who remained quiet throughout the rampage, came back 30 seconds after the first round of gunfire and Sheehan and her classmates tried to barricade the door with their bodies, she said.

After the shooter couldn't get in, he began firing through the door, Sheehan said. Of the 25 students in her German class, Sheehan was one of four able to walk out on her own when police arrived. (Watch students react to shooting )

Victims' identities being released
Courtney Dalton, an 18-year-old student who worked at West End Dining Hall, said a friend named Ryan Clark was one of the two dormitory victims.

Clark, a resident assistant at West Ambler Johnston Hall, had once worked at the cafeteria serving pizza. Sobbing, she described Clark "a happy person."

As of early Tuesday, the identities of four other victims had been released:


G.V. Loganathan, a professor of civil and environmental engineering


Liviu Librescu, a professor of engineering science and mechanics


Ross Alameddine, a student from Saugus, Massachusetts


Matthew La Porte, student, Dumont, New Jersey

The university has scheduled a convocation for 2 p.m. ET Tuesday. President Bush is scheduled to attend.

Classes have been canceled for the rest of the week, and Norris Hall will be closed for the remainder of the semester, Steger said.

There have been two bomb threats at the university this month, the latest of which came Friday. Flinchum said Tuesday they were unrelated to the shootings. (Watch gunfire on the campus )

Last August, the first day of class was cut short at Virginia Tech by a manhunt for an escaped prisoner accused of killing a Blacksburg hospital security guard and a sheriff's deputy.

Before Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States occurred in 1991, when George Hennard drove a pickup truck into a Killeen, Texas, cafeteria and fatally shot 23 people, before shooting and killing himself.