Shootings at Virginia Tech
It’s official. Virginia Tech is now home to the worst mass shooting in American history. Worse than the University of Texas, worse than Columbine, worse than the Luby’s massacre. At least 33 people are dead, and two dozen more are wounded after shootings at the West Ambler Johnston dorm and Norris Hall on Monday.
From a statement by Tech’s president, Charles W. Steger:
I lived on the top floor of West AJ my final year of college, when I swapped room assignments with a pledge, so I could buckle down and graduate. (I wasn’t getting anything done in the Pi Kappa Alpha house that year.) From the Washington Post:
It’s hard to imagine someone could kill two people in West AJ and then make it across the Drill Field to the other side of campus and Norris Hall. More details I’m sure will be forthcoming in the days and weeks to come. The Roanoke Times has a map showing the shooting locations, although they call Pritchard Hall “Pritchett Hall” for some reason, which is bizarre, considering how many Hokies work there. More news available at the following news sites, which will have more localized information than the AP wire:
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Oh my god. How are you holding up?
Comment by f. chong rutherford — April 16, 2007 @ 16:32
Good Lord, that’s awful. When you said yesterday that you were wrapped up in the Virginia Tech thing, I thought maybe you meant some controversy related to the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ thing you posted about earlier. That’s what I get for not watching the news last night…
Thirty-three people. That’s insane.
Comment by Stephen — April 17, 2007 @ 8:15