Shots fired at Virginia Tech (AP: 33 dead, 15 wounded)

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2007&itemno=248 ^

[LexHoskin]

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

[F-117A]

Rumor involves an “Asian” student

Wonder if this is Asian, as in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

or

Asian in the British sense... Pakistani, etc?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Thanks. Google doesn’t list that one. Still a little ways from AJ though, on the other side of the drill field.

[AppyPappy]

He appears to have shot his way across campus from AJ to Burruss. There is a command station near us now to keep him from getting off campus. If he hits the highway, he’s gone.

Choppers waved off because of weather (wind, some snow)

[OldFriend]

Oh no, prayers for everyone.

[Oberon]

I wonder which “definition” of “Asian” is meant.

I think it's the definition that means "Chemistry Department Grad Student."

[ArtyFO]

Police scanner for Blacksburg
http://www.newrivervalleynews.com/content/view/7612/85/

[stinkerpot65]

Prediction: A muslim student on a jihad. Authorities will claim it has nothing to do with terrorism.

[Paved Paradise]

You and I must’ve been posting our comment at the exact same time.

[AppyPappy]

Now hearing that two women were wounded, one person killed.

[AppyPappy]

More likely a girlfriend situation.

[Paved Paradise]

Who knows. Just gives me the shivers... reminds me way too much of the incident at Case Western awhile back. Schools are just so vulnerable to this sort of thing.

[TomGuy]

[elpinta]

“Violation of this statute is a felony.”

Oh no, this person then is a felony ‘suspect’!

Sad situation for the youngsters and the workers, wish they would be allowed to be armed and this stuff would really not happen this often.
But then, what do we know, we are not paid-off by special interest groups.

[murdoog]

I wonder which “definition” of “Asian” is meant. Asia includes the Middle East, so is this Asian, as in Chinese or Asian, as in Middle Eastern?

I think since the word "oriental" became politically incorrect, "asian" has replaced it. In other words, I think this is someone that in less PC times would have been called oriental.

[Paved Paradise]

Of course. If it does turn out to be a Muzzie, that will be minimized to the point of being squelched.

[AmericanMade1776]

The last time this happened at VT, a law officer got killed on one the trails as the suspect was hidden in the grass. and he wasn’t a Muslim.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Wouldn’t surprise me if someone went ballistic because of signficant other problem or professor problems, either.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Can you believe the people at DU are worried this is going to overshadow news about Gonzales... I can't believe how insane these people are.

That's because they are NOT Americans. They are an evil enemy within our borders.

[KoRn]

Thanks for the update! Keep’em coming.

[Oberon]

Rumor involves an “Asian” student, 6 feet tall, multiple weapons.

Well, that rules out Fumiko Ishihara. She was four-foot-nuthin'. She knew how to run a lab, though.