I was stunned to see this headline:
I can’t believe that people are so cruel. Except…I can believe it. I just don’t understand it.
A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 22, 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 name of the gunman was not immediately released, and investigators offered no motive for the attack. It was not immediately known if the gunman was a student FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack, “but all avenues will be explored.”
The bloodbath took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building, authorities said.
Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm — and the campus was under lockdown, with students to stay indoors and away from the windows — when authorities got word of gunfire at the classroom building.
Some of the dead were students. One student was killed in the dorm, and the others were killed in the classroom, Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum.
Up until Monday, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death 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.
From Blue Star Chronicles:
UPDATE - 1:41 p.m. ET: 32 people are confirmed dead. 28 are being treated for critical injuries.
UPDATE - 1:51 p.m. ET: Reports are that there was a two hour lapse between two sets of shootings.
UPDATE - 2:00 p.m. ET: Federal authorities confirm this to be the worst shooting in American history.
if it was a black man,there will be no justes for thes people,the killer will call al shorpton or jesse jackson or the naacp and other like them he will walk free,but if they do get him whitch i hope they do,all they will give him is a hotal with bars with taxpayers cost.
People are messed up. I have been going over the other cases of mass shootings and I have to tell you there are some screwed up people out there. So someone picks on you or hurts your feelings whatever, so natually going out and shooting alot of people will make things better. White, Black, Asian, or whatever the skin color or nationality of this person, if the reports of them being dead isn’t true, then they better make sure he is before there could ever be a “fair” trial. Scum is all they are and all they can be. I refuse to look at them as hurt or misunderstood people. Anyone who could hurt and kill these people, tear these people from there families and friends, is not and can not be looked at as a person.
#1 I think that is a stupid comment. It is thinking like that that leads to problems like this and the one that happened in Lancaster county P.A.
what does race have to do with it? who ever it was they were crazy !!!