Virginia Tech Notified of Gunman Via Email
A horrible shooting took place today at the campus of Virginia Tech. A gunman on a rampage shot and killed 33 people on the Virginia Tech campus. The shooter, who’s identity is unknown as of right now, also lost his life but it has not been released if it was self inflicted or if he was taken down by the police.
The students of Virgina Tech were notified via email that there was a gunman loose on campus. Can you imaging getting these emails? Apparently the first email was sent out about 2 hours after the first shots were fired. They went as follows:
Email sent at 9:26am - “A shooting incident occurred at West Ambler Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating. The University community is urged to be cautious and are asked to contact Virgina Tech Police if you observe anything suspicious or with information on the case. Contact Virginia Tech Police. Stay attuned www.vt.edu we will post as soon as we have more information.”
Pretty freaky stuff but it doesn’t really give the impression that there is a mass murdering lunatic with a gun on campus as of yet.
Email sent at 9:50am - “A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows.”
Yah, that one would really get my attention. Recipients of that email must have started to get pretty nervous at this point.
Email sent at 10:16am - “Virginia Tech has canceled all classes. Those on campus are asked to remain where they are, lock their doors and stay away from windows. Persons off campus are asked not to come to campus.”
I’m wondering if at this point there was any TV coverage of this story. If there was the people in their rooms could possibly have tuned in and known what was going on. If not, it has got to be really scary to be confined to your room, receiving emails about a shooter on campus and not know exactly what is going on.
Email sent at 10:52am - “In addition to an earlier shooting today at West Ambler Johnston, there has been multiple shootings with multiple victims in Norris Hall. Police and EMS are on the scene. Police have one shooter in custody and as part of routine police procedure, they continue to search for a second shooter. All people in the University buildings are required to stay inside until further notice. All entrances to campus are closed.”
Virginia Tech staff and students also utilized other forms of communication to keep everyone updated on the situation such as a podcast statement by Virginia Tech President Steger and Blog entries on the Virginia Tech website. This shooting is said to be the deadliest shooting to ever occur on a U.S. school campus in our history.
There have been no reports as of yet telling us if police have any idea what the motive of the Virginia Tech shooter was. It was released earlier that he had no identification on him so the police were not able to make a positive ID.
Kensavage.com would like to say that the victims,their families and friends will be on our minds in the days to come. Hopefully we can all try to make some sense out of this senseless, violent act and make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.
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Mary on Mon, 16th Apr 2007 9:52 pm
I am struck by the need to teach unarmed people how to defend themselves personally against violent intruders, when they have no one around them to defend them and when the violence is unexpected. This would empower those victims and give them security in the future.
I am struck by the apparently lack of response to the intruder with effective disarming techniques.
jay on Tue, 17th Apr 2007 11:51 pm
first of all i would like to say, if the U.S would just stop selling guns to people other than the police or our armed forces then we wouldn’t have this problem. our president needs to recognize what is taking place, not just feel bad for the victims but stop this shit before it happens again. as AMERICANS we need to take care of each other, meaning that when our country or our people are at war then we need to react with even more of a force that will make a point not just shake them up a lil bit. just like the war, we are staying in iraq and not doing nothing but risking and killing our men & women. cmon, remeber pearl harbor? 1 bomb is all it took. we need to straighten up and be a strong country. it’s not about being equal but protecting whats ours. by god we need to do that in every aspect of the word.
Faith on Wed, 18th Apr 2007 12:07 am
A special condolence from Malaysia.. Vtech will be in our prayers..
Vigil Lante on Wed, 18th Apr 2007 1:57 am
Again; another worthless piece of crap takes many worthwhile lives: When are we ever going to learn to PAY CLOSE and RAPT paranoiac attention to such vivid warning signs as this shithead was giving off. He should have been institutionalized (or better yet boiled alive in oil) a LONG time ago. SOMEone at some time should have pursued getting this guy OUT of society or OFF the planet. Now instead nearly 50 valuable and decent people were pointlessly killed by a decrepit and dispicable piece of scat who should have been taken out long ago one way or another. When will we ever learn to deal with such losers, misfits, and sociopaths appropriately and with the extreme concern they warrant? Prayers will not solve and have not ever solved a thing only INTENSE vigilance and willingness to ACT will.
Renee on Mon, 18th Jun 2007 5:14 am
Everyone is looking for someone to blame. A natural reaction I guess but the person to blame is simply Cho. Whether he was mentally ill or just plain evil, he is to blame. Not the president,who by the way Jay, can not make laws and changes on his own. I encourage you to vote on gun issues every time they come up if you don’t already. It saddens me that people use a tragedy like this to promote their own agendas, i.e. gun control. There will be investigation after investigation about who did what and whether or not it was right but hindsight is always 20/20. We all want answers. Did mental illness get overlooked in this guy? You can’t commit someone or force them into therapy because they don’t talk and write menacingly evil poetry. I don’t think anyone did anything wrong.
They did what they could within the constraints of the law. Are the laws too lenient? Do they allow too much personal freedom? Do they allow too much individual privacy? Should a college campus be fenced in like a fortress? Should students not be allowed to come and go as they please? Should visitors be refused entry until each and every one is personally searched and screened? Who knows. But while we want to assign blame, we must remember that Cho and only Cho pulled the trigger. The thing to do now is remember the families and victims. Focus on healing and learning from the incident. And pray, pray, pray.