Uncle: Family of suspect in Va. shootings stunned
Source: Associated Press
Uncle: Family of suspect in Va. shootings stunned
By PAM RAMSEY | Associated Press • Published April 14, 2013
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – The family of a man charged with wounding two women at a community college in southwest Virginia is stunned by the shootings and concerned about their impact on students, faculty and staff, the suspect's uncle said Sunday.
"It's a very difficult situation," Stewart MacInnis said in a telephone interview.
Police arrested MacInnis' nephew, 18-year-old Neil Allan MacInnis, minutes after the shootings Friday at a satellite campus of New River Community College at a mall in Christiansburg. MacInnis was being held Sunday at the Montgomery County Jail on two counts each of malicious wounding and using a firearm in the commission of a felony
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He said the family also is concerned about students, faculty and staff who were at the satellite campus when the shootings occurred.
"This has impacted them greatly as well and our thoughts are with them as well. For the students, we just hope that they continue their studies. It's a barrier that I hope they can get over and continue," said Stewart MacInnis, who is director of media relations at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
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