Virginia Tech University – At Least 33 Dead

At least 30 are dead and several more are wounded after a shooting at Virginia Tech University Monday morning, police said.

Campus police said there was only one shooter and he is now dead. They are unsure if the shooter was a student and it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.

“Today the university was struck by a tragedy we consider of monumental proportions,” Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said during a press conference shortly after noon. “I cannot begin to convey my own personal sense of loss over this senseless, incomprehensible, heinous act.”

Steger said school officials are notifying victims’ next if kin, and state police and the FBI are still investigating the various crime scenes. They are still trying to identify all the victims. The university will set up counseling centers for students and faculty.

Update Editor & Publisher weekly is reporting that police are investigating reports earlier this month that and again last Friday of bomb threats on the campus of Virginia Tech where at least 32 people were shot and killed Monday.

Update Debbie Schussel gives her assessment.

Update Tech Doors Were Chained From Inside

Update He was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student adviser was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and shot dead both his girlfriend and the adviser.

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