[Palladin]

One of the dead is from Rochester, N.Y. She was a freshman.

Teen With Local Ties Killed in Virginia Tech Shooting
Last Update: Apr 17, 2007 12:20 AM

Blacksburg, VA. - The shooting spree in the Virginia Tech campus has claimed 33 lives, including that of the shooter. Among the dead, a freshman with family in the Rochester area.

Mary Read was in a French class when the gunman opened fire in a classroom building, just after nine this morning.

Read’s grandparents, Dave and Kate, are from Macedon. She has an Aunt Mary Courtney, in Palmyra. Also an Aunt and Uncle in Rochester, Karen and Ted Kuppinger. Ted is a Lieutenant in the Rochester Fire Department.

[geopyg]

One of the first things I thought of after hearing of the shooting was thinking of all the parents, grand parents, uncles, etc. that will suffer the loss of a loved one. The next thing was a prayer for all of those (~20) kids that were wounded and risk dieing, maimed, and in pain.