Virginia Tech Shooting: At least 33 Fatalities

As of right now, CNN says 32 dead, dozens injured. It also confirms that it was an Asian guy, and witnesses say he was looking for his girlfriend.
'The first happened at residence hall, the 2nd started in the engineering building.'

This is just... really scary. Its horrible to think about how this could happen anywhere.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It pisses me off that the officials were saying that they couldnt confirm whether the two shooting incidents were related. Come on! A campus just happens to have 2 shootings the same day? WTF.

From what I hear now, death tolls are 33, including the gunman himself. The school's dorms supposidly automatically unlock at 7am to let anyone in, and lock again around 9 (I could have heard wrong, correct me if I'm wrong, VT students). That's how he got in.

Officials were saying that they didnt cancel classes or send students home because they thought the killings in the dorm (first killings) were a domestic dispute, an 'isolated incident' and they 'had no reason to believe that the murderer was still on campus'.

The thing that really confuses me is... really, how would they get a hold of students or professors to let them know this was happening? The school is getting all this shit for not notifying students properly. I certainly don't check my email before a morning class. I'd think that they'd have the ability to call each student in the dorms and let them know with a mechanical recording or something. Spike mentioned the buses, so I guess that was a good thing, but they could have posted Campus Safety at parking lots to tell other commuters to go home, rather than thinking that they would 'be safest in their classrooms'.

All this is what I've read and heard from CNN... the reporters just keep repeating everything over and over.

This whole situation is crazy... and heartbreaking.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Wow, awesome. The idiots out there are already feeding off this, trying to pull their own little stunts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/..._DUzRscTNH2ocA

Basically, eight different states have had schools and universities lock down because of threatening notes (mentioning VT) and supiscious activity. My own school isnt mentioned in that, but we just had an alert put up on our website... someone wrote “Go VT is going to happen here 2” (sic) on a wall in a academic building's bathroom. That would explain why Campus Safety was prowling around the student center (I'm at work right now, student center building manager)... but if that is why, then they already fucked up, because they didnt tell me why they were there.

It just sickens me that people are trying to get a laugh out of this, or worse, doing stuff like this to get out of class.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.