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Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin

Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall

(Excerpt) Read more at vtnews.vt.edu ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense; vatech; virginiatech
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1,481 posted on 04/16/2007 12:10:49 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Labyrinthos
This seems way too calculated to be the result of a lovers' quarrel.

My own pure speculation....maybe the argument was about the shooting that was about to happen? Maybe she tried to stop him? As I say pure speculation.
1,482 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:04 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: TalonDJ

This guy killed 32 and wounded many others. He was VERY skilled and/or very heavily armed.


1,483 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:29 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: Labyrinthos

<< This seems way too calculated to be the result of a lovers’ quarrel >>

If the girlfriend info is correct, then I’ll bet we’ll find that at the 7:15 shooting, the guy was NOT armed at that time with two weapons, a vest with multiple clips, lock and chains, etc. He got into an argument with his girlfriend, had a pistol on him and then shot her and the RA.

Then he left, and was not thereafter identified or stopped by anyone. He went back to his apartment. Having committed a double murder, the loser figured that if he was going down for a capital crime he would take a lot of other people with him, and that’s when he loaded up with weapons and ammo and chains and went back on campus two hours later and shot many people.

The authorities should have locked down the campus until the perpetrator of the first incident was in custody or they knew he wasn’t loose on campus.


1,484 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:31 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Very true.

And such things are hard to coordinate over the type of cell network that A.Q. uses. Especially since we have hollowed out that network lately.

1,485 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:38 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: All

2:20 p.m.

One man was hanging out the window of a Norris Hall classroom when the gunman entered, according to freshman Douglas Cobb.

Cobb said that Jake Grohs, the resident assistant for the fourth floor of Peddrew-Yates residence hall, told him he climbed out the window of an engineering class as the gunman apparently made his way from room to room in Norris.

“He was in the room next door to the shooting” and decided to try climbing out the second-story window, Cobb said. “He was hanging out the window when the person came in” and heard people being shot, Cobb said. He said that four of six people who were in the room at that time where shot.

Grohs jumped out the window onto a hill and is OK, Cobb said.

Cobb and other friends showed up at the Inn at Virginia Tech this afternoon to try to get information about a missing friend.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294


1,486 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:42 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: mmichaels1970

place


1,487 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:55 PM PDT by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: mmichaels1970

You raise a most excellent point.


1,488 posted on 04/16/2007 12:11:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: jdm

Yes, it’s different. But he could still have taken an idea and applied it to his own situation. If so, then he’d probably been planning this awhile.


1,489 posted on 04/16/2007 12:12:26 PM PDT by twigs
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To: goodnesswins

I doubt they would be running the suspect on an open frequency like that...especially once all the state police and reinforcements showed up. They all love to talk on their Nextel’s

Could be wrong though....during the Burbank shooting here they named the suspects name over the air, saying the D/L was found in the slain officers hand.


1,490 posted on 04/16/2007 12:12:36 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BerkeleyConservative

You just joined today and that is your only post at FR? So who is the ‘plant’? Just wondering.


1,491 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:02 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: mmichaels1970

I was speculating on that too...post 1463


1,492 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:05 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: toast

ROTFLMAO!!!!!


1,493 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:13 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Gideon7
Possibly SJS (Sudden Jidhai Syndrome) by someone w/extra ammo exploiting a location that was vulnerable due to local anti-CCW? So far uncertain.

Another possibility: that the phony bomb threats called in over the last weeks were done so to get a heightened police presence on the campus, to make today's victims more hesitant about carrying for their protection without benefit of official permission.

2 Bomb Threats at VA Tech Last Week

Before Today's Massacre, Virginia Tech Received 2 Separate Bomb Threats

By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG

April 16, 2007 — - There have been two separate bomb threats in the past two weeks at Virginia Tech that targeted engineering buildings.

The first, in early April, was directed at Torgersen Hall, which is an engineering building. The second, at the end of last week, was directed at multiple engineering buildings.

Students and staff were evacuated, and the university had offered a $5,000 reward for information into the threats.

1,494 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:34 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: dawn53

4th person account here but a friend of a friend of mine has a brother who is a state trooper just north of Blacksburg and he has said that it was a disgruntled boyfriend. No additional info on how killing her turned into killing 30 more people then himself.

Take it for what it’s worth...


1,495 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:35 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: jdm

could it be that maybe he had planned this event knowing that he would die (either by police or himself) and went to see his girlfriend for the last time and somehow it came out during the convo what he was planning and she tried to talk him out of it causing an argument...


1,496 posted on 04/16/2007 12:13:36 PM PDT by TSH1
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To: MaestroLC

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1,497 posted on 04/16/2007 12:14:07 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: MaestroLC

I am cursed with dial-up that is carried on barbed wire to the rural wasteland. Can you re-cap?


1,498 posted on 04/16/2007 12:14:37 PM PDT by myprecious
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1,499 posted on 04/16/2007 12:14:44 PM PDT by JustPiper ("It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it")
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To: ilovew

thanks for your thoughtful post, it is just so hard to imagine


1,500 posted on 04/16/2007 12:14:49 PM PDT by not-alone
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