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Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin

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To: ScreamingFist

As my crazy and well armed uncle once said “Cops don’t prevent crime. They simply investigate crimes after they happen”

As a young man I thought he was kinda nutty, but nowadays...


3,041 posted on 04/16/2007 5:15:26 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: AliVeritas

Those people are completely delusional .... “at least” is a codeword for a black-flag (WTF is that) operation?


3,042 posted on 04/16/2007 5:15:26 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: LexHoskin

3,043 posted on 04/16/2007 5:15:31 PM PDT by M203M4
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To: floriduh voter

Maybe because there wasn’t anyone to pursue, and they thought they might have greater success interviewing witnesses and trying to find out who the guy was and where he might be headed. How on earth can you pursue someone if you don’t know who they are or where they went. Obviously you are not thinking rationally here. Barney Fife would jump in his car and start driving around aimlessly. Law enforcement officials try to gather as much info as possible before acting.


3,045 posted on 04/16/2007 5:15:56 PM PDT by ga medic
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To: RightWingNY

sure, like at Columbine. local law enforcement, the DA, the courts - covered up so many things there. and a judge is about to seal the records for 25 years.


3,046 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:07 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: All; Cindy; nw_arizona_granny

Chicago Sun-Times Exclusive:

“Gunman may have been in US on Visa”
http://www.suntimes.com/index.html

Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech before being killed
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article)

April 16, 2007

BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist
Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.

Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus’ security response, the source said. (snip)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article


3,047 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:26 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: DCPatriot
BREAKING NEWS!!! BOR says they know who the shooter is and wants to know why identity is not divulged.

Oh, O'really knows the killer's identity and the authorities don't? Let me guess...Howard K. Stern?

Sorry, but the man gets on my nerves sometimes.

}:-)4

3,048 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:26 PM PDT by Moose4 (What's the difference between Mike Nifong and toast? Right about now, nothing.)
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To: eleni121; Miss Marple

CHINESE NATIONAL ON A STUDENT VISA. Unconfirmed on MSNBC. That’s the latest on i.d.


3,049 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:29 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: cgbg

I didn’t hear tonight’s presser, but I heard the one this afternoon. They made the same comments about “two separate incidents”. To give the guys a (really undeserved) break, I thought it possible they were saying they were treating the two crime scenes as two separate investigations. Since they hadn’t CONFIRMED that it was the same shooter, they were simply refusing to say there was only one guy. If that’s the word game they’re playing, it’s pretty lame.

Did he really say tonight that a POI is still at large?


3,050 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:35 PM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats! ......and trial lawyers.)
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To: Mo1

“these are some really stupid questions being asked at this presser”

I agree, but unfortunately there are also some really stupid answers.

I’m one of those who is instinctively sympathetic to law enforcement and thinks we need to get all the facts before casting judgment on how this was handled...other posts are quite correct that the shooter is the one responsible...but the speakers at this press conference are terrible and not exactly inspiring confidence. If I had a child on campus and heard that police rep say that there is a person of interest who isn’t in custody and isn’t dead...HUH?

The fact that we have heard virtually nothing other than “Asian” in terms of a description, so many hours after the incident, is troubling as well.


3,051 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:46 PM PDT by GOPrincess
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To: blu
Into conspiracy theories, are you?

Egads, an investigation takes time.

I thought the police chief did an OUTSTANDING job of NOT speculating as well as dealing with some of the stupidest questions, I've ever heard, to some of the stupidest reporters who heard his initial response to the "first stupid question" but who then showed how dull they were by continuing to ask the SAME STUPID QUESTION!

3,052 posted on 04/16/2007 5:16:58 PM PDT by Alia
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To: DocRock

Heard it on Savage.


3,053 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:06 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: fatima

Greta’s there. She arrived about an hour ago


3,054 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:14 PM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats! ......and trial lawyers.)
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To: All; Cindy; nw_arizona_granny

Chicago Sun-Times Exclusive:

“Gunman may have been in US on Visa”
http://www.suntimes.com/index.html

Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech before being killed
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article)

April 16, 2007

BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist
Authorities were investigating whether the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history was a Chinese man who arrived in the United States last year on a student visa.

The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.

Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus’ security response, the source said. (snip)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article


3,055 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:23 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: floriduh voter

Well, that would explain why they are holding the info.


3,056 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:33 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: AliVeritas

I thought the perp wasn’t a student??


3,057 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:48 PM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: All
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

check out this website for the country that is "lit up" with terrorist suspect activity...

Hint: including Va Tech Shooting

3,058 posted on 04/16/2007 5:17:56 PM PDT by evad
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To: All

Oops, sorry didn’t mean to post that twice.


3,059 posted on 04/16/2007 5:18:08 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: DCPatriot

OReilly has moved onto Imus.

what the hell is wrong with FNC.


3,060 posted on 04/16/2007 5:18:13 PM PDT by oceanview
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