One definite casualty right now, with 7-8 more being reported by the AP... this isn't good.
My cousin is a freshman there, I'm hoping for the best.
WTF is wrong with people???
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One definite casualty right now, with 7-8 more being reported by the AP... this isn't good.
My cousin is a freshman there, I'm hoping for the best.
WTF is wrong with people???
A lot...Quote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
Vibes, here's to hoping your cousin is not involved...
Possible multiple suspects.
WTF??? :eek:
Apparently the shooting took place in a dorm. I found this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm
vibes.
sucks to hear that. ++++
Not going to campus until later today was def a good decision...I've got friends on campus right now, they dont know much, actually getting most of their info from me because I can watch the news and have friends listening to radio scanner.
Have a friend in Norris, building where shootings happened, he heard the shots and immediately locked his door (reporting to us via listserv). He was scared as shit earlier, but it sounds like the situation is under control with the shooter apprehended.
Just talked to my grandma, and my cousin's fine... he was in class when it all happened. I guess he walked out from class and saw some of it going down, with the cops in their gear running around- and he turned around and went right back inside.
Quote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
Great news Steve. So far I've checked in with all of my friends and everyone I know is ok...
its unbelievable that this is the second shooting incident of the academic year. I will be interested to hear if this is a student or a random. This is all happening on top of two bomb threats in the past week, which involved the evacuation of multiple buildings.
Edit: Official news conference at 12, if anyone is near a TV
Sounds like its multiple people- so it was planned in all likelihood. Sick, sick bastards.
The series of incidences were very strange - first a shooting on the 4th floor of a dorm early this morning, the police got it under control and students were allowed to freely move around campus, then another shooting a few hours later completely across campus.
this is not good. we are watching trying to get in touch with some friends that go to school there. Got an email from our friend that is a vet student on lockdown on campus. But no word yet from our other two friends, one of which is a engineering student and his wife who is also a student. seems like 2 seperate shootings, one in the dorm, the other more serious at Norris Hall. Shit, as many as 17 people shot!!!
thoughts and prayers for everyone involved :(
Such a horrible thing to happen, especially at a school.
This has certainly been an unusual year down there. Hopefully some of the wild reports of 8+ casualities are being over exaggerated.
+++ Condolences to the family of deceased student/person
The news conference just reported at least 20 fatalities and the shooter is dead.
Holy. Fuck.
++++++ vibes for those families....damn I hope its no one I knew.
I'm talking to a friend and hearing one fatality and 21 wounded with a second shooter still on the loose.
20 fatalities? Holy shit.
How come none of the major news sources can update their stories????
Apparently fox news is the only one covering this well. I'm in BC, so I'm getting my info from a friend glued to a tv and talking to a guy we went to highschool with at Virginia Tech, but it seems like the police evacuated his dorm.
Holy fucking shit. Prayers to all the friends & family.
I just heard 20 fatalities too. Holy shit. So sad.. +++++++VIBES++++++
AT LEAST 20 DEAD IN VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING - POLICE REUTERS 161624 GMT apr 07
Yep, at least 20 dead. My God.
Wow. I can't even imagine.
Latest is at least 22, including shooter and one person in the dorm this morning.
Unfuckingbelievable. So sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
22 is the quote I'm seeing right now..
+++vibes
112 :BC-USA-CRIME/SHOOTING-TOLL At least 20 killed in Virginia Tech shooting-official
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - At least 20 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university on Monday, police and university officials said.
It was one of the worst shootings on a university campus in the United States since Charles Whitman went to top of the tower in the middle of the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 1, 1966, and opened fire on people 27 stories below. He killed 15 people, including his mother and wife the night before, and wounded 31 others.
Wow...this is an insane story.
thoughts and prayers to the families.
CNN reports shooter in custody - not dead. I hope they torture the fucker to death.
This is totally fucked.
I don't know what to think.
Prayers for all invoved.
WTF?!?!?!?!
I know this isn't PC, but if they know they'll be taken down by the police anyways, why don't they just shoot themselves and spare all the innocents? :frown: :nonono2: :frown:
"They had us under lockdown," Kanode said. "They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again."
This is horrific.
Too many casualties to be random.
Unreal...Vibes to all involved, and their families, friends, etc.
Because they're fucked in the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by skimoore
AP says 22 dead.
W.T.F??!!!
Wow. 22 people. That is so horrible. I called my sister-in-law. She is locked down in a building nearby and wasn't aware of how severe it was. I'm really glad she is ok.
++++vibes to the whole town and all the families effected
And fuck the assholes responsible.
Just got word from a friend of mine, who was in classroom next door to shooting- 2nd floor of Norris, they jumped out the windows as soon as the shooting started.
Holy Shit. Vibes to my friends...
What would cause somebody to do this. I mean in college too...there are so many outlets for frustration and anger in college I can't fathom this happening at a college. I'm shocked at this....
What engr department is in Norris??!
Is it confirmed 22 dead? Last radio news report at 9:30 am PDT was saying 1 dead 8 injured.
Horrible