Shooting at Virginia Tech

[Rilchiam]

From CNN:

One person was killed and one person was wounded in a shooting on the Virginia Tech university campus in Blacksburg on Monday, The Associated Press reported, quoting a state government official.

Roanoke’s WSLS reports that one person has been taken into custody, but it is unclear whether more suspects are being sought.

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The shooting comes three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported.

Further bulletins as events warrant, of course. I hope no one here is or knows anyone there.

[enigm4tic]

being from Virginia a good number of my friends are there (hell, I’m only not there because they rejected me, but UF has been more than good to me in return).

[Kalhoun]

Two dead, 7 or 8 injured, and there is a separate incident involved. They’re saying they have someone in custody.

[Kalhoun]

I guess only one dead, but shit…seventeen people are injured. They have a video of the second shooting as it happened. Fucking unreal.

[Kalhoun]

Wow. According to CNN, this is much worse than first reported. 20 dead and more injured. The gunman is also dead.

[bouv]

@Kalhoun

Wow. According to CNN, this is much worse than first reported. 20 dead and more injured. The gunman is also dead.

I still see only two listed as dead (one victim, and one shooter.) But it appears a second shooter is likely still at-large.

Edit: Ok, now I see the updated story.

[meek]

Wow. At least 22 dead. One more critical.

There are no words.

[Hedda_Rosa]

I’m seeing news sites reporting at least 20 dead. This is horrible.

[Kalhoun]

The phone video they showed on CNN…it looked like a group of people standing with the shooter when he opened fire. They weren’t hitting the ground. Did I see that right? Jesus…what a nightmare.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

My God. Do we have any Dopers in Blacksburg? How horrid.

May angels speed them to their rest. May God comfort the families. Somehow.

[Lamar_Mundane]

@Kalhoun

The phone video they showed on CNN…it looked like a group of people standing with the shooter when he opened fire. They weren’t hitting the ground. Did I see that right? Jesus…what a nightmare.

I think those were the police responding. There were a ton of shots going off.

[Savannah]

Holy fucking shit. I just heard the update on the radio news here in Canada. Oh, my god.

[enigm4tic]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

well,
so far nobody on my friends list from VT has any memorial or “we’ll miss you” messages on their wall…

[Paul_in_Qatar]

CNN is now reporting twenty-two dead. The worst school shooting since Colombine. I cannot watch this anymore. I will check back in the morning.

[RTFirefly]

It’s been 24 years since I was briefly a grad student there, but it’s still a place I’m fond of.

Horrible, to hear that something like this has happened there.

[Elza_B]

My cousin has friends at Tech, and we have a couple of friends of the family with kids there :(. Just waiting to see if everyone’s okay.

This is horrible.

E.

[Tuckerfan]

@Paul in Saudi

CNN is now reporting twenty-two dead. The worst school shooting since Colombine. I cannot watch this anymore. I will check back in the morning.

It’s the worst school shooting in US history. What makes a person do this?

[MissMossie]

This is bizarre. I’m not a VT Doper, but I’m at Radford University, just twenty minutes down the road. So far, no big changes here, just more police around.

[Tuckerfan]

@CNN

The shootings came three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported.

Are these things related or just coincidences?

[8675309]

At least 25 dead according to ABC.