20 PLUS dead at VT :(

[wakeme2008]

http://www.roanoke.com/

t least 20 killed in shootings at Virginia Tech

The Roanoke Times
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12:18 p.m.

Virginia Tech police Chief Wendell Flinchum is saying there at least 20 fatalities in this morning's shootings.

12:07 p.m.

Virginia Tech has closed for the day and announced that classes also are canceled for Tuesday, though administrative functions are scheduled to resume then.

Faculty and staff on the Burruss Hall side of the Drillfield are being asked to go home immediately. Faculty and staff on the War Memorial side are asked to leave at 12:30 p.
..more at link...

[Carni]

1. OMG I just heard this too

How horrible!

I thought I heard earlier that three people had been shot but were alive but apparently not.

I had no idea how serious this was--my prayers to the families! :(

[maxsolomon]

2. this is not a healthy nation

may the friends & families of the victims know peace.

[ElizabethDC]

3. OMG! How terrible

my thoughts and prayers are with the students at VT as well as the families of the victims.

[bluescribbler]

4. SHIT

What is wrong with some people?

[Eurobabe]

5. This is awful, I cannot believe this....

I feel so sorry for these kids at V-Tech.

[KingFlorez]

6. I just heard about this

I was stunned when I heard the death toll.

[roguevalley]

7. This is horrible. I am so very, very sorry. Please, Virginia Tech, accept

our family's condolences.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. We are frantic here.

No one's cell phone works and we can't get through to any of the kids. This is terrible.

:cry:

[aquart]

12. Your kids are there?

What about email? The news story says they're all on lockdown, trolling the internet to find out what happened.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Not mine, no. but a lot of my friends have kids there.

and they're at work, so I'm trying to get through for them. The circuits are all busy and a lot of the emails I've sent have bounced back.

[Virginia Dare]

21. Yes, this is so frightening...

we know one of our friends' son that is safe, haven't heard about many of the others.

Hang in there, Midlo!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. 20 Shot, 1 Confirmed Dead

You scared the crap out of me...

[Midlodemocrat]

10. 22 dead, 28 injured. The OP is right.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Got a link to this?

Every article I'm looking at via Google News has one person dead and 20-ish wounded.

Edit: I got CNN and it confirms 20 dead. What in the hell is going on?

[Midlodemocrat]

13. No. I'm watching tv. NBC 12 - carried the MSNBC feed just now.

and trying to get through to my friends' kids. This is so horrible.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. I hope they're OK...

Has this world gone totally mental?

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. Listening to police scanner

http://www.newrivervalleynews.com/content/view/7612/85/

They just asked if they have anyone in Lee Hall for any reason, came back negative. Need to go to "runner system". They're using cell phones a lot. Just asked for "accurate count" for every hospital. :shrug:

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. "we have had 3 green and 7 red"

They're getting numbers. :(

[Kadie]

18. OMG!

Thoughts and prayers going out to all today.

:cry:

[whistle]

19. Good grief, this sounds so much like the University of Texas Tower

...shootings in Austin TX by student Charles Whitman back in the summer of 1966. After killing his mother and wife he went to the University and took a sniper position at the top of the tower where he selectively shot and killed numerous victims until he himself was killed by Austin police.

[uppityperson]

20. oh hell. my symapthy and condolences and hoping it ends soon and everyone else is ok.