Va. Tech President: "He Was One Of Our Students"

[Hissyspit]

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Va. Tech President: Gunman Was a Student

By ADAM GELLER
AP National Writer

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- An Asian student at Virginia Tech massacred at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, cutting down his victims before the university could grasp what was happening, the university president said Tuesday.

The bloodbath ended with the gunman's suicide, bringing the death toll from two separate shootings - first at a dorm, then an engineering building - to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy.

President Bush planned to attend a memorial service Tuesday afternoon at the university, the White House said. Gov. Tim Kaine was flying back to Virginia from Tokyo for the 2 p.m. convocation.

"We do know that he was an Asian male - this is the second event - an Asian male who was a resident in one of our dormitories. He was one of our students," University President Charles Steger told CNN Tuesday.

Asked if there could be two shooters, Steger said: "There could be, we don't know," but he said officials don't believe a second shooter is at large.

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[hiaasenrocks]

1. This "two shooter" stuff is really troubling.

People were all over the TV media last night saying this issue would be settled by ballistics. Really? Two people can't use the same gun?

What we know (based on eyewitness accounts) is that the description of the shooter at the dorm does not match the description of the shooter at the Norris classroom building.

I'm not trying to sensationalize this or make some 'whodunit' mystery out of the case. I just find the information extremely uncertain.

[YDogg]

2. What troubles me is the description of the first event as a domestic violence issue ...

... based on the initial assessment. What, they think the RA killed the other student, or vice versa? Did they find a weapon there? If not, this is just so much utter BS.

[marshall]

6. Weren't they initially looking for a white man?

I heard that when the first killings happened in the dorm the police were looking for a white man with greasy hair driving a pickup truck. Where did that come from?

[YDogg]

7. I missed hearing that.

[hlthe2b]

3. ditto...

and I only hope they clear up the confusion quickly...How horrible to think someone involved might be still out there.

[Skidmore]

4. A woman student interviewed on NPR said the gunman

was laughing as he was shooting. She was hiding in a small office in the classroom building with others. She said it was the most horrible laughter.

[Colobo]

5. I hope the fucker who did this

is finding torment in the afterlife.

These are the moments I do want a spiritual Hell to exist.