Tuesday, April 17, 2007

   V-tech
This post is dedicated to those who died at V-tech yesturday. May God bless their familys and friends during their time of saddness.

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Wow...

What is going on at V-tech is sad/scary.
I know it must be devistating for their parents and friends. I know that if my friends had gotten shot,I would be.

Why?
Why do people feel like they have to go and do that? For fun? Or because they got in a fight with their girlfriend? None of those are good reasons,and there are NO good reasons or excuses for people like that.
About 33 people (maybe even more) have died because of that guy,and the guy who did it got the easy way out.

_Yahoo News_________________
The shooting began about 7:15 a.m. on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston, a high-rise coed dormitory where two people died.

Police were still investigating around 9:15 a.m., when a gunman wielding two handguns and carrying multiple clips of ammunition stormed Norris Hall, a classroom building a half-mile away on the other side of the 2,600-acre campus.

At least 20 people were taken to hospitals after the second attack, some seriously injured. Many found themselves trapped after someone, apparently the shooter, chained and locked Norris Hall doors from the inside.

Students jumped from windows, and students and faculty carried away some of the wounded without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. A student used his cell-phone camera to record the sound of bullets echoing through a stone building.

Inside Norris, the attack began with a thunderous sound from Room 206 — "what sounded like an enormous hammer," said Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old junior who was in a solid mechanics lecture in a classroom next door.

Screams followed an instant later, and the banging continued. When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, he started flipping over desks to make hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge of Room 204, he said.

"I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Calhoun, of Waynesboro, Va. He landed in a bush and ran.

Calhoun said that the two students behind him were shot, but that he believed they survived. Just before he climbed out the window, Calhoun said, he turned to look at his professor, who had stayed behind, apparently to prevent the gunman from opening the door.

The instructor was killed, Calhoun said.

Erin Sheehan, who was in the German class near Calhoun's room, told the student newspaper, the Collegiate Times, that she was one of only four of about two dozen people in the class to walk out of the room. The rest were dead or wounded, she said
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That was just a little piece taken out of the new today.
Its so horrible...

I hope that the people that have been through it,and their familys and friends are ok,and I wish them best wishes.

I just hope the death toll doesn't go up again.

Thank you for reading this,and please keep them in your thoughts!

~Chuugi~
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