My wife is a high school math teacher. Any threat, and they go into lock down.
It seems like
1. There was a shooting in the morning. Temporary lock down put in place (for how long?), but then lifted or wasn’t campus wide.
2. Two hours later, perp enters into a class room (in session or in lock down?) and starts shooting. Did he attack more than one room? What about the reports of chains, bullet proof vests, etc?
At the very least, there was a massive break down in the incident procedures of the school.
Sure seems to be some puzzle pieces that don’t quite fit.
Will be interesting to see what’s revealed . . .
and what’s concealed.
Putting a school the size of Virginia Tech into “lockdown” isn’t that easy. 25,000+ students, thousands of which are commuting in from off-campus, a couple of hundred buildings, and easy wide-open access from dozens of points around Blacksburg. How do you lock that down? I went to a school that was considerably smaller (James Madison University, up the road from VT in Harrisonburg) and even so, 20 years ago when I was there, we had over 10,000 students, 100 buildings, a couple of dozen parking lots, maybe eight full-time campus cops, and absolutely no facility to lock anything down.
If he shot the two people in West AJ at 7:15, he could probably get out of the dorm and fade into the woodwork with ease. Tech’s big, and crowded. And if nobody knows who this guy is now, seven hours after the fact, there’s no way anybody knew to look for him earlier this morning when he walked into Norris Hall and started shooting.
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