What happened in virginia tech?

Answer 1

The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with tragedy, perhaps forever.

"I'm really at a loss for words to explain or understand the carnage that has visited our campus," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said.

He was also faced with difficult questions about the university's handling of the emergency and whether it did enough to warn students and protect them after the first burst of gunfire.

Investigators offered no motive for the attack. The gunman's name was not immediately released, and it was not known if he was a student.

Wielding two pistols, the gunman opened fire about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory, then stormed Norris Hall, a classroom building on the other side of the 2,600-acre campus, chaining the doors behind him to keep anyone from escaping.

Two people died in a dorm room, and 31 others were killed in Norris Hall, including the gunman, who put a bullet in his head. At least 26 people were hurt, some seriously.

Students jumped from windows in panic. Young people and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive. Many found themselves trapped behind the chained and padlocked doors. SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. A student used his cell-phone camera to record the sound of bullets echoing through a stone building.

Trey Perkins, who was sitting in a German class in Norris Hall, told The Washington Post that the gunman barged into the room at about 9:50 a.m. and opened fire for about a minute and a half, squeezing off 30 shots in all.

The gunman, Perkins said, first shot the professor in the head and then fired on the students. Perkins said the gunman was about 19 years old and had a "very serious but very calm look on his face."

"Everyone hit the floor at that moment," said Perkins, 20, of Yorktown, Va., a sophomore studying mechanical engineering. "And the shots seemed like it lasted forever."

Students bitterly complained that there were no public-address announcements on campus after the first shots. Many said the first word from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time the gunman struck again.

"I think the university has blood on their hands because of their lack of action after the first incident," said Billy Bason, 18, who lives on the seventh floor of the dorm.

"If you had apprehended a suspect, I could understand having classes even after two of your students have perished. But when you don't have a suspect in a college environment and to put the students in a situation where they're congregated in large numbers in open buildings, that's unacceptable to me."

Steger defended the university's handling of the tragedy, saying authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus.

"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.

Steger emphasized that the university closed off the dorm after the first attack and decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means to notify members of the university, but with 11,000 people driving onto campus first thing in the morning, it was difficult to get the word out. He said that before the e-mail went out, the university began telephoning resident advisers in the dorms to notify them and sent people to knock on doors to spread the word. Students were warned to stay inside and away from the windows.

"We can only make decisions based on the information you had at the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it," Steger said. He called the massacre a tragedy of "monumental proportions."

A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was incomplete, said that the gunman had two pistols and multiple clips of ammunition.

Some students and Laura Wedin, a student programs manager at Virginia Tech, said the first notification they got of the shootings came in an e-mail at 9:26 a.m., more than two hours after the first shooting.

The e-mail had few details. It read: "A shooting incident occurred at West Amber Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating." The message warned students to be cautious and contact police about anything suspicious.

Everett Good, junior, said of the lack of warning: "Someone's head is definitely going to roll over that."

Edmund Henneke, associate dean of engineering, said he was in the classroom building and he and colleagues had just read the e-mail advisory regarding the first shooting and were discussing it when he heard gunfire. He said moments later SWAT team members rushed them downstairs, but the doors were chained and padlocked from the inside. They left the building through a construction area that had not been locked.

Until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

The massacre Monday took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

Previously, 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.

Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state's largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse Hokies football team.

The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus. The campus is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets — who now represent a fraction of the student body — practice. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

Answer 2

geeezz, dont u watch the news? is all over the tube, ...this kid was mentally ill, n should of been in a rehab center, or mentally ill facility or something, before it came to this, i think we need to change thigns,,, when people act out so much they need serous help, before it comes to this...if he would of been in a facility prob this might of been prevented, also people need to stop bullying others, presuring others, many people cant cope with so much, n they break down, so in many ways there was alot of guilty parties, when u bully a kid, who knows wht kind of pressure u put on him/her, n if this goes on for a long time, things liek these can happen...not everyone is strong minded and can just brush off these pressures, n who knwos wht other problems these kids have, that finally drives them to such acts..... and oh please, i dont see how on earth was this the university fault? they cant baby sit all the kids...people go their to get educated, we are adults, not to be baby sitted, and hand held.. they already do enough, its people who also need to start takign responbility, dont pressure others, dont harrass others, or bully others, when u do that, u dont know wht kind of mind some of these kids r in, maybe it was funny when u were in elementary, but ur older now, grow up, people need to take responsiblity too, maybe if they hadnt bulied and verbally attacked this kid, this might not happened, people need to get real, and realize that they cause damage when they do these thigns also, cause these thigns have been happening, way too much...and laws need to be changed, when a person has been acting in ways that are out of norm, they need to get help asap,..we need to stopy all this crap about, how they havent done anything(like wht happened at VA) , and how the privacy crap n all that, well u want to wait till somethign else happens??? if people are actin out in harrasing ways, and are a menace to others or tehmselves then they need to go to some facility, not let them run around till they hurt someone as in this case.

Answer 3

Thankyou for many efficient us in prayer. the main we are able to do for acquaintances and familys of those unfavorable pupil victims is prayer. Thankyou for this prayer. Now there is investigations and to overview of who this man or woman exchange into to reason so poor a tragedy. i think of all of us have severe doubts approximately how the guy who already killed 2 human beings exchange into allowed to stay on campus and kill 33 pupils in yet another development bulding 2hours later. i'm outraged. A warning had to be dropped at each college room that a severe hazard to the risk-free practices of the pupils. The specialists say oh properly the campus has lots of pupils comming and going out and in all day long how can we be to blame for each man or woman.? possibly a warning for the pupils and instructors? The police theory oh properly this is basically those 2 unfavorable ineffective human beings shall we see who they are linked with right here on campus? meanwhile the shooter exchange into having a cup of espresso on the pupil midsection cafeteria and somebody ought to have warned the whole campus. they had 2 hours to close down the campus and get the youngsters in there dorms the place thy can lock themselves in until eventually the police understand the killer. to discover the killer,... fairly they only lollygag around the only little room the place the 1st killing befell no longer even a theory the guy exchange into probably having a cup of espresso interior the pupil midsection cafeteria. i'm sorry for the ineptitude of authoritys to think of previous what's already there. i'm sorry that prayer is the main we are able to do for the victims acquaintances and family. In Columbine the cops have been indecisive approximately what to do next so as that they stood around outdoors the development for 2 hours whilst the killing went on interior. right here the cops stood around 2 corpses for 2hours no longer a theory a pair of killer sitting ideal there of their midst having a cup of cofee.

Answer 4

From time to time people entered doors, used bathrooms and learned in classrooms. It's a University.

Unless you were in a coma for the last days...

Answer 5

You should buy a newspaper from time to time. Very instructive.

Answer 6

A Korean immigrant went wacko and shot people. 32 died

Answer 7

I think you're are trying to be cute but are failing miserably.

Answer 8

A tragedy.

Answer 9

by the way...
wht was it like to b on the other planet.....?