Also note that the nature of all the investigative units involved is not being disclosed either.
Posted on 04/16/2007 4:58:16 PM PDT by Partisan Hack
What cable network?
IF it is true the mass murderer was not carrying ID, then the deliberateness of that is chilling.
They did, he was Asian. Now they haven’t mentioned ethnicity yet or cultural background, but then again he was ID’less and blew his face away.
bor just said they knew the identity, but had not yet released it. He seems to think he will have the ID shortly.
“Thought I heard the cop saying they were interviewing the person of interest in the 1st shooting while the 2cnd shooting was taking place. For some reason, they believe the 2 shootings to be separate. If so, this has got to beat astronomical odds that two shootings would occur like this 2 hours apart. BTW, the person of interest has not been charged.”
So many question, and so few answers!! Yours are the first ones to come to mind!
Article here says it’s a Chinese national. This is basically a link to a link since I couldn’t go to the suntimes link in this article.
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244999
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.
The exits to the buildings where the shootings occurred were chained by the shooter, the source said.
Students complained that there were no public address announcements or other warnings on campus after the first burst of gunfire. They said the first word they received from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time the gunman struck again.
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed 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.
He defended the university’s handling of the tragedy: ‘‘We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don’t have hours to reflect on it.’’
Steger said the university decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means of notifying 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 to everyone.
Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum would not say how many weapons the gunman carried. But 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.
How much do you want to bet that the shooter’s name has a ‘bin’ or an ‘al’ in it?
If the shooter was a BOYFRIEND that killed his GIRLFRIEND then People would KNOW who that was!!! Friends of the dead girl would KNOW the name of her boyfriend!!! What a bunch of UN-CURIOUS MEDIA!!
UH OH!!!
Even if the shooter is a legal immigrant, this will not be received well.....
Perhaps because threats were made ahead of time?
Someone involved was already on their case list?
Also note that the nature of all the investigative units involved is not being disclosed either.
See post 46...
Usually, they do this when the perp is of a certain religion of peace persuasion.
No, it’s what they always do when they don’t want us to know something. We’re being stalled.
The name of the gunman, whom witnesses described as a young Asian man wearing a maroon cap and a black leather jacket, was not released. It was not known if he was a student.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/
Why did you ask if the hat were red?
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