[DCPatriot]

Hey, you’re the one who made the claim that the police tried to open the doors. I have yet to see that information anywhere else.

I saw a television interview with a student yesterday that described the police as having difficulty with the ground floor exterior doors of the building.

They used those battering ram tools to bust open the door...they closed it again.

They could not enter the 2nd floor where all the carnage was taking place because it was those interior hall doors to the staircase that were chained from the inside.

That's why some of the victims were shot in the stairwell...because they were trapped on the floor.

[jdm]

I saw a television interview with a student yesterday that described the police as having difficulty with the ground floor exterior doors of the building. They used those battering ram tools to bust open the door...they closed it again.

Good post! The student's eye-witness account totally contradicts the below information from the808bass, where police claim they broke through the chains "within one minute." I figured that was a steaming pile of BS. Your post only confirms it. Thanks.

Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)

Posted by the808bass to jdm On News/Activism 04/17/2007 10:09:32 AM EDT · 4,561 of 4,630 How do you know any police tried to open the doors? Where did this information come from? Um... the news and stuff. There's a lot of it going around. From a local TV station. 9:45 am Virginia Tech police receive a 911 call about a shooting at Norris Hall Norris Hall includes faculty offices, classrooms, labs Virginia Tech and Blacksburg Police respond immediately Officers arrive and find front door barricaded by chains from the inside Within one minute police break through doors and hear gun shots Gunshot sounds lead them to the second floor Gunshot sounds end and police find gunman had taken his own life. Your timeline of "5 hours" is flat out wrong.