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Was gunman crazed over Emily?
new.com.au ^ | April 18, 2007 12:00 | David Williams and Stefanie Balogh

Posted on 04/17/2007 12:45:42 PM PDT by bedolido

THIS is the face of the girl who may have sparked the worst school shooting in US history.

Eighteen-year-old Emily Jane Hilscher was one of the first two victims to be identified in the Virginia Tech massacre, along with 22-year-old Ryan Clark.

The pair were neighbours in rooms 4040 and 4042 on the fourth floor of the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory where a gunman began the first of 33 campus shootings on Monday morning just after 7am, US time.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crazed; emily; gunman; massacre; tech; vatech; virginia; virginiatech
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe
Liberal lawyers suing a liberal educational institution....do you think the universe will implode?

It has happened plenty of times.

141 posted on 04/17/2007 6:11:16 PM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: Star Traveler

Why let facts or logic get in the way when there’s a juicy rumor to launch?


142 posted on 04/17/2007 6:12:10 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: xzins; jude24; blue-duncan
Liberal lawyers suing a liberal educational institution....do you think the universe will implode?

It's an engineering school.

Engineers tend to vote republican.

Liberal arts majors tend to be liberals.

143 posted on 04/17/2007 6:14:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe; jude24

You said — “The trial lawyers will have a tough one this time.”

I’m reading in other news reports that a teacher warned the university, reported the circumstances to police and wanted to remove him from class, because of worries about what he would do. They didn’t do anything. That was a year earlier.

In addition, even his fellow students *were discussing* the possibility that he might turn into a “school shooter” at some time in the future.

Now..., what does that tell you? This guy was so disturbed that everyone around him, including the students and university (not to even mention the police) knew all about it....

Regards,
Star Traveler


144 posted on 04/17/2007 6:19:11 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Isn’t that the truth


145 posted on 04/17/2007 6:20:41 PM PDT by mel
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To: Star Traveler; P-Marlowe; xzins; blue-duncan
Now..., what does that tell you? This guy was so disturbed that everyone around him, including the students and university (not to even mention the police) knew all about it....

If this is true (and that cannot be taken for granted at this early stage), Virginia Tech is in for a world of legal trouble - and I don't think that it is wholly undeserved.

146 posted on 04/17/2007 6:21:41 PM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: jude24; xzins; blue-duncan
Specificially, if Virigina Tech knew or should have known that Cho Seung-Hui posed a danger to their students, they should have intervened.

IF VT attempted to intervene prior to this tragedy and in any way impugned the reputation of this student, then VT would have their butts sued off faster than you can say "slander".

Even if VT suspected this guy was a fruitcake, their hands were tied unless and until he made direct threats and the school had reason to believe that he would carry them out. Simply suspecting that this guy was a stalker or that he had a fixation on some girl is not sufficient cause for VT to start sending out warnings to all the other students.

VT was and is in a no-win situation. If they had warned anyone about this guy and they got it wrong, they'd be sued into obvlivion. If they suspected something and didn't warn the student body, then they will be sued.

The way the legal system is set up, nobody is safe from liability or litigation. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you don't warn you get sued. If you warn, you get sued. There is no Tarisoff immunity given to educational institutions. If you go around warning students about a suspected nut, you'd better be right and even if you are right, warning is not going to be enough. You will be expected to prevent it.

147 posted on 04/17/2007 6:23:06 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Star Traveler; P-Marlowe; xzins
Per CNN: Cops (and university) knew of the prior stalkings. He had been brought to the counseling center because he threatened to kill himself.

I'm thinking Tarasoff liability may still be implicated.

148 posted on 04/17/2007 6:24:47 PM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; blue-duncan; Star Traveler
Simply suspecting that this guy was a stalker or that he had a fixation on some girl is not sufficient cause for VT to start sending out warnings to all the other students.

When they know he's done it to at least 2 girls, he shouldn't have been allowed back on campus.

149 posted on 04/17/2007 6:26:26 PM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: BurbankKarl

Yeah, he was trying to save her.

What a jerk for jumping to the WRONG conclusion.


150 posted on 04/17/2007 6:46:51 PM PDT by It's me
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To: jude24
When they know he's done it to at least 2 girls, he shouldn't have been allowed back on campus.

Did he break any laws?

Did the girls get or attempt to get a restraining order?

Was he warned by the school or the police to stop?

Did he ever threaten to harm anyone?

Not every repressed geek who fantasizes about some girl on campus is a serial killer. I'd go so far as to say not even one in 5.

151 posted on 04/17/2007 6:48:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: trumandogz
Would it have been less sad if she had not looked sweet and pretty?

I don't know. My mind doesn't work like that. You tell me.

152 posted on 04/17/2007 7:12:00 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: Centurion2000

do you have to show what an idiot you are on EACH thread you’re on?


153 posted on 04/17/2007 8:08:36 PM PDT by shaylalala
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To: Centurion2000
I said she was nice .... and I am sorry she died. No one should be murdered while trying to get an education.

Yet for some reason also felt the need to remark on her appearance.

Just not sure why.

154 posted on 04/17/2007 8:12:42 PM PDT by carlr
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To: Star Traveler

Why would the campus cops designate the original shooting as a “domestic incident” if there was never a very close relationship between shooter and victim? A relationship known to others interviewed at the girl’s dorm??


155 posted on 04/17/2007 8:13:33 PM PDT by Palladin (My sympathies are extended to all the VT victims and their loved ones.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Sources say Cho, 23, killed two people in a dorm room, returned to his own dorm room where he re-armed and left the note, then went to a classroom building on the other side of campus. There, he killed 30 more people in four classrooms before shooting himself in the head.

abcnews


156 posted on 04/17/2007 8:15:10 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
Sources say Cho, 23, killed two people in a dorm room, returned to his own dorm room where he re-armed and left the note, then went to a classroom building on the other side of campus. There, he killed 30 more people in four classrooms before shooting himself in the head.

And?

157 posted on 04/17/2007 8:34:17 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: Palladin; fso301

You said — “Why would the campus cops designate the original shooting as a “domestic incident” if there was never a very close relationship between shooter and victim? A relationship known to others interviewed at the girl’s dorm??”

That’s exactly right. And that argues for the fact that he was *not* just a “passing acquaintance” to this girl. He did have *some* relationship with her. And thus, that’s why it’s most likely some kind of jilted or lover’s argument — perhaps with her wanting to cut it off and him wanting to take it up to another level.

Regards,
Star Traveler


158 posted on 04/17/2007 8:35:59 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: BurbankKarl
They may have been neighbors but I bet they were in the same room!

Clark was the RA. If there was some sort of commotion next door, he would have run over to investigate.

159 posted on 04/17/2007 9:05:50 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
My mind doesn't work like that.

As for me I do not measure the sadness of someone's death by how pretty or sweet they look. However, stated that her death was sad due to those attributes.

160 posted on 04/17/2007 9:17:37 PM PDT by trumandogz
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