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Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people before he was killed, police said. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Alan Kim)

Gunman Kills 21 on Virginia Tech Campus

By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer

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BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

The university reported shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.

The name of the gunman was not released.

Up until Monday, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history took place in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire. He killed 16 people before he was gunned down by police. In the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo., in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

On Monday, one student was killed in a dorm and the others were killed in the classroom, Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum.

After the shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed and classes canceled through Tuesday.

"There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on," said Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the dorm where shooting took place.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the 4th floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

"They had us under lockdown," Kanode said. "They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again."

"We're all locked in our dorms surfing the Internet trying to figure out what's going on," Kanode said.

Madison Van Duyne, a student who was interviewed by telephone on CNN, said, "We are all in lockdown. Most of the students are sitting on the floors away from the windows just trying to be as safe as possible."

It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.

In August 2006, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus.

The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.



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Wow!! I'm  truly shocked when I saw this.  It's one of the worst killings ever on a campus.  So so sad!!



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the number seems to be getting higher. now it's being reported as 31 on cnn.com. this is seriously depressing me.

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Now they say 33 killed including the gunmen.
This is really sad.

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i've had non-stop chills listening to the details.  this is so sad.

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it's so sad. i'm from blacksburg, my dad and grandfather are on the faculty at VT, one of my best friends works there, and two of my cousins are students there (they are all okay, thankfully)...but it is just so scary. it really hit home for me that this can happen anywhere...blacksburg is such a calm college town, to be the site of the "deadliest shooting incident ever in the U.S." is just incomprehensible.

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everyone, hug your family and friends extra-tight today...



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valenciana wrote:

it really hit home for me that this can happen anywhere...blacksburg is such a calm college town, to be the site of the "deadliest shooting incident ever in the U.S." is just incomprehensible.

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ITA.  that's what makes this so upsetting because even though i've never been there, that's the vibe i got.  my thoughts and prayers are with you, your family, friends, and friends of your family members. 



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So, so sad. I just really feel for the family. cry.gif

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This is terrible. It also makes me feel like I can't be safe anywhere.

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absolutely tragic. i am saying prayers for everyone involved.

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Does anyone else think its terrorism or am I just paranoid?

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sorry, i think you are just paranoid!

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It seems as though it's a student who just snapped. People describe him as a loner who kept to himself.

I don't think there is any planned terrorism other than a disturbed person who did an unspeakable thing.

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OK turns out I was wrong. This is so disturbing beyond words..

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Xtina, dont worry, it crossed my mind too, although it seeems there were quite a few victims that were minorities. (sigh) this is so upsetting

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I was reading the 2 plays that the gunman had written in his classes... they are so disturbing... it is obvious that this kid had problems. I feel like a lot of people are outraged that nothing was done to stop him given that there were warning signs but haven't we all known someone that was a bit "off" in the classroom? Maybe the a positive outcome of this whole ordeal is that schools/counselors could come up with a system for dealing with disgruntled students? How many people will have to die before we do something other than shrug our shoulders?

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