Va. Tech president: gunman was student

Yahoo News ^ | April 17, 2007 | By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer

[Musket]

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech's president said Tuesday that a student was the gunman in at least the second of the two campus attacks that claimed 33 lives to become the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. ADVERTISEMENT

Though he did not explicitly say the student was also the gunman in the first shooting, he said he did not believe there was another shooter at large.

[Musket]

Names of victims at end of article.

[GoldenPup]

If even ONE of the victims had a concealed weapon to employ in his self-defense, at least SOME of the victims might still be alive. Sad.

[Puppage]

This POS is NOT a gunman...he’s a MURDERER.

[angkor]

From a smaller but similar incident in Virginia, 2002:

Fri, 18 Jan 2002

EX-CHARLOTTEAN: I HELPED NAB SUSPECT;

Diane Suchetka
Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)

One of the four students who subdued a gunman at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia on Wednesday is an N.C. native and former Charlottean.

Mikael Gross, 34, a first-year student at the small school in Grundy, Va., told The Observer he worked as a state alcohol law enforcement agent in Charlotte from 1996 until 1998 and earned a master’s degree in criminal justice at UNC Charlotte in 1997.

Two other men who helped bring the gunman under control also have worked as law enforcement officers in North Carolina - in Asheville and Wilmington, Gross said.

Gross was walking back to the law school from lunch just after 1 p.m. Wednesday with four classmates when he heard a gunshot. He yelled to the others to take cover and watched as students ran from a student lounge in the administration building.

“People were running everywhere,” Gross said. “They were jumping behind cars, running out in front of traffic, trying to get away.”

Gross ran to his car, parked about 100 yards away, without dropping the gunman from his sight, grabbed his bullet-proof vest from his trunk and a gun from under his front seat.

While the man pointed his gun at fellow students, Gross and two others ran toward him from different directions.

One of the others was Tracy Bridges, a Buncombe County sheriff’s deputy from Asheville, who also had his gun, Gross said.

When the gunman saw them, Gross said, he put his weapon down and his hands up.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

A souless, demonic, homicidal, suicidal monster.

[Verginius Rufus]

On FNC they said one of the professors who was killed, Liviu Librescu, was able to keep the door shut long enough for his students to escape through a window before the killer got in and killed him. He was born in Romania in 1932 and according to this article was an Israeli. He was an author or co-author of 4 books and 40 journal articles and was a professor of engineering science and mechanics.

At least three engineering professors were killed (they have about 300 engineering faculty at VT).