All you VT people okay?
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As per VT's website:
Gunman identified; classes canceled remainder of week
Updated at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, 04.17.2007
The Virginia Tech Police Department has confirmed the identification of the gunman responsible for the multiple fatalities at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. Ballistics match at both crime scenes.
The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va.
Classes are canceled for the remainder of the week to allow students to mourn and begin healing. Campus will reopen Wednesday for administrative operations.
Norris Hall has been closed for the remainder of the semester.
Updated at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, 04.17.2007
The Virginia Tech Police Department has confirmed the identification of the gunman responsible for the multiple fatalities at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. Ballistics match at both crime scenes.
The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va.
Classes are canceled for the remainder of the week to allow students to mourn and begin healing. Campus will reopen Wednesday for administrative operations.
Norris Hall has been closed for the remainder of the semester.
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Those people piss me off to no end. As a Veteran it makes my blood boil to see them attempting to interfere with the funerals of other Vets and fallen servicemembers.
I sent an e-mail to the regional Captain for the Patriot Guard (www.patriotguard.org). They've helped out with blocking the WBC from "preaching" at Veterans funerals, and while the victims here aren't Vets, I asked if they would help out, should the WBC choose to interfere.
I'm all for freedom of speech and the right to believe whatever you want to believe, that's why I served and continue to support the military as a defense contractor, but these people should not be allowed to disrupt the funerals of these victims, period. Even if the Patriot Guard can't help out, if I find out that the WBC is in fact planning on showing up at any of the funerals, you can bet I'll be there to try to block them. I would think that we could get enough people together to keep them out, and let these families mourn in peace.
I sent an e-mail to the regional Captain for the Patriot Guard (www.patriotguard.org). They've helped out with blocking the WBC from "preaching" at Veterans funerals, and while the victims here aren't Vets, I asked if they would help out, should the WBC choose to interfere.
I'm all for freedom of speech and the right to believe whatever you want to believe, that's why I served and continue to support the military as a defense contractor, but these people should not be allowed to disrupt the funerals of these victims, period. Even if the Patriot Guard can't help out, if I find out that the WBC is in fact planning on showing up at any of the funerals, you can bet I'll be there to try to block them. I would think that we could get enough people together to keep them out, and let these families mourn in peace.
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As per the AP:
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university said Tuesday.
Ballistics tests also show that one of the guns inside that building was used in another shooting two hours earlier, at a dorm, Virginia State Police said.
Police identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from South Korea who was in the English department at Virginia Tech and lived on campus.
"It's certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases," but authorities haven't made the link for sure, said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol.
Ballistics tests also show that one of the guns inside that building was used in another shooting two hours earlier, at a dorm, Virginia State Police said.
Police identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from South Korea who was in the English department at Virginia Tech and lived on campus.
"It's certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases," but authorities haven't made the link for sure, said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol.
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Re: All you VT people okay?
Hell, I did it all the time playing hockey, and those guys never did anything to me except wear a different jersey than I did...
