I don't believe double murders occur on campuses everyday.
In addition, it was only a 10 minute stroll to where the murderer was sitting in his room, arming up, writing, or what ever he was doing. They walked it off.
The point here is, you have a double murder scene, no gun, meaning no murder suicide. There was no proof the murderer had left the campus. No one should have just assumed the murderer just left town. There could very well have been other victims, others injured, or bodies located else where at the school.
This should have warranted an immediate, large scale law enforcement response, to search for witnesses, other victims suspects etc.
What if you had a daughter, laying on her bed, three buildings away from a double murder that just occurred at a school, and the suspect was still at large, armed. Would you expect law enforcement to respond with every possible resource available?
> What if you had a daughter, laying on her bed, three
> buildings away from a double murder that just occurred at
> a school, and the suspect was still at large, armed.
> Would you expect law enforcement to respond with every
> possible resource available?
No, but I realize that a 12-30,000 student university is more like a large town than an elementary school.
I would and do expect that the authorities will take all necessary steps to notify everyone who might be affected of the possible danger, advise them of appropriate steps to ensure their safety, and take all reasonable steps to mitigate the danger.
I don’t think that happened in this case, and I hope and expect that the VT administration will revise their procedures accordingly, and that other universities will do likewise.