An injured person is carried out of Norris Hall, where most of the fatalities occurred. 'At least 30 to 40 big shots' were fired in the engineering building, a student said.Police said they now know the identity of the gunman but are withholding his name for the time being. They said they did not know his motive or whether he was a student at the college, which has a student body of about 26,000 in a town with a total population of only 39,573.
There were two separate shootings about two hours apart at opposite ends of the campus. The first took place at about 7:15 a.m. ET at West Ambler Johnston dormitory, a co-ed residence housing more than 800 students, and the second about two hours later at an engineering building, Norris Hall.
University president Charles Steger said Norris Hall had become a "tragic" and "horrific crime scene."
Christy Huffman, a 20-year-old sophomore, center, of Weyers Cave, Va., signs a message at a memorial for the shooting victims at Virginia Tech near the drill field on campus in Blacksburg, Va., Tuesday, April 17.
Brian Jank, of South Carolina, a fourth year Landscape/Architecture student, photographs the sidewalk in front of Norris Hall, background, on the campus of Virginia Tech, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, one day after a shooting rampage left more than 30 students dead.
A U.S flag flies at half staff atop the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, after President Bush ordered flags to be lowered in honor of those killed at Virginia Tech.
The gunman who killed 32 people during a shooting spree at a US college campus has been named by police. Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a South Korean native, was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Police Chief Wendell Flinchum has confirmed.
Some people from the Arabic world said that ( they deserve what happened to them )
But I am SORRY no they do not , I know that the Arabic world suffer from the power of America , but please those students who went to their school to study not to take a war against us and suddenly they died because of nothing just a crazy man killed them .
I feel so sorry for the families , who were waiting to see their children after the school .
I am sorry for them and for their lost .
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It deeply saddens me to hear about the Virginia shooting. That chinese/korean guy had serious issues and it took the lives of 30+ people for him to call it quits.
The Arabs that think they deserved what happened need to go back to the teachings of Islam.
Thank you for sharing this with us Life cycle, I am feeling really sorry for the families as well.
Thank u for sharing sis , really sad what happened , may God help thier families .
arabs that said that do not represent the majority decent arabs.
its a sad tragedy, I do feel for the families and their loss
It's sad and horrible and remember the same week we heard of killing of innocents in Alger and Casa Bianca. Not to foreget what we hear every day from Bagdad. It's a horrible world.
my mom just told me about that yesterday and u won't believe what happened ??
i did dream about the whole thing happening at my uni .GOD that was scary
i feel sooo sorry for thsoe ppl and specially thier families
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