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33 killed in Virginia massacre
Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:45PM EDT
By Brendan Bush
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Thirty-three people were killed and 15 others were wounded at Virginia Tech university on Monday in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history.
The dead included one suspected gunman, the university president, Charles Steger, told reporters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...6?feedType=RSS
At least 33 dead in rampage at Va. college
15 other at Virginia Tech wounded in worst mass shooting in U.S. history
BREAKING NEWS
NBC, MSNBC and news services
Updated: 5:54 p.m. ET April 16, 2007
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Thirty-three people, including the gunman, were killed at a Virginia university Monday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 15 other people were injured, some of them as they leapt to safety from the fourth floor of a classroom building.
The shootings, which took place in two locations on campus, came just four days before the eighth anniversary of the Columbine High School bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. They created panic and confusion at the college, where students and employees angrily asked why the first e-mail warning did not go out to them until the gunman had struck a second time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/
Officials: Gunman dead after bloody campus rampage
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NEW: University officials say 33 dead, including gunman
• Four hospitals report 29 wounded
• Attacks mark deadliest school shooting in U.S. history
• Student describes situation as "mayhem"; says 2 students jumped from window
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- At least 33 people, including a gunman, were killed Monday during shootings in a dorm and a building housing classrooms at Virginia Tech, university officials said.
The death toll makes the incident the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Two people were killed at a dormitory about 7:15 a.m., while another 30 people were killed two hours later at Norris Hall, the engineering science and mechanics building, university officials said.
Though university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said police were still investigating whether the two incidents were related, he also said the gunman at Norris Hall took his own life. Investigators are not ruling out a second shooter, Flinchum said. (
Watch the police chief explain where bodies were found
)
"Norris Hall is a tragic and a sorrowful crime scene, and we are in the process of identifying victims," university President Charles Steger said.
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Federal Officials: At Least 32 Dead After Virginia Tech University Shooting
Monday , April 16, 2007
By Liza Porteus
BLACKSBURG, Va. —
At least 32 people are confirmed dead and at least another 21 are wounded after a shooting at Virginia Tech University Monday morning, federal law enforcement officials told FOX News.
Campus police said there was only one shooter and he is now dead. They are unsure if the shooter was a student and it was
unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.
"The university was struck today with a tragedy of monumental proportions," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said during a press conference shortly after noon. "
The university is shocked and horrified that this would befall our campus ... I cannot begin to convey my own personal sense of loss over this senselessness of such an incomprehensible and heinous act."
It was the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266310,00.html