“Uhh, the killing happended on campus, that’s where the double-murderer was last seen.”
So? The next killings came over two hours from the first. Most killers flee their crime scenes.
In that amount of time, the killer could have easily been out and about in Blacksburg, even if he was on foot. Of course, if he’d have fled by car, he could have been half-way to DC. If he’d have hopped in a car and driven to DC and killed a bunch of folks, I suppose folks would be criticizing the Blacksburg folks for not telling the DC Metropolitan Police for locking down all of Washington, DC.
“They did not comb through the nearby vicinity to look for the loose armed killer, they confined everything to the one dorm and shrugged the rest off for two hours.”
We don’t know what they “combed through” or didn’t during those two hours. We also don’t know how much manpower was available to them during that time.
However, the killer next shows up shooting in a building that appears to be about 3/4 of a mile away. Within a 3/4 mile radius of the dormitory where the first shootings occurred are about another 60 or 70 buildings.
With their 74-employee police department, which of the 60 or 70 buildings would you have searched first?
If you’d have searched the nearest 30 or 40 first, you’d have missed the one where the killer eventually turned up.
And if you think you can have a few dozen police officers thoroughly search 30 or 40 buildings in a couple of hours, well...
For all we know at this point, they may have been searching for the killer already.
The fact is that the killer didn't pick a building particularly nearby to continue his spree. There were literally dozens of buildings that were closer, including other dormitories (if you're gonna shoot folks at seven o'clock on a Monday morning on a college campus, dorm buildings'd make a convenient target).
“Defend them if you wish, I will bet you anything there will be admissions of wrongdoing and imcompetence in a relatively short amount of time.”
I’m not defending them. Merely pointing out the stupidity of some of the posts here. As I said previously, it may turn out that there was some negligence committed somewhere along the line. I don’t know.
But from the facts that are currently known, there is no obvious negligence.
You don’t “lock down” an entire 4-sqare-mile city when there’s a double homicide.
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