Posted on 04/16/2007 7:14:16 AM PDT by LexHoskin
Gunman on Campus; Stay inside your building, away from windows; Shooting incident at West Ambler Johnston Hall
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When sh$t like this goes down, it takes a good while to get all the facts and put the puzzle together.
I imagine they’ll send employees home, but not sure I’d call it an evacuation. I seriously doubt they’ll take all students off campus. But word out of Burruss is that it’s over. I hope so.
casualties usually does not mean fatalities
Nice to have a Freeper on the scene, CNN is probably getting their news from a DU on the scene.
Planned EVAC is for Faculty and Staff, students to return to dorms, etc.
The Waco situation developed unexpectedly, so its date is a coincidence. However, several incidents since then have been “scheduled” for that date.
Of course, the 19th is Lexington and Concord anniversary ... but nobody’s attacking the British, or vice-versa :-).
Horrible! This is reminiscent of the TX tower shooting in the 60’s at UT, Austin, where about a dozen were killed and more wounded. At work, we watched as he picked off people even on the street a block away, The daughter of a coworker worked in a shop on that street, and we watched in horror as she came outside to see what was going on, but luckily was shooed back inside before anything happened. Turned out to be a Vietnam vet who went beserk and went up in the tower with an arsenal. Hope they apprehend this shooter before he gets any more.
What are the gun laws in VA? Any chance of someone carrying—I doubt it on campus.
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Or got the grade he/she earned.
They didn’t mention the Baltimore riots.
I’m a trucker and was NB on I81 by Blacksburg when this occured. There must have been 40 cops rolling and 15 ambulances rolling SB from Roanoke, VA.
Based upon the amount of emergency equipment rolling, there must be more than 1 dead and 6 injured.
Campus is closed on Tuesday.
Stay hunkered!
"Almost" being the key work, however.
Just heard everybody’s being “released” from campus.
Rescue squad’s are reporting in ,at least one has 2 patients if I heard right.Everyone is being released from campus.
Ummm... I dont’ recall Charles Whitman being a “Vietnam vet”.
per scanner” Ton of folk leaving off campus in a few minutes so be aware there will be a lot of traffic”
Evac pending. No word for us yet. We will be last.
Casualties in military terms means just “out of action”. So it can be wounded, killed, missing.
Civilians tend to mistakenly think it means “killed”, but it’s really a more encompassing term.
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