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Virginia Tech lifts alert after report of possible gunman
[Update 3:07 p.m.] Virginia Tech has lifted an alert on campus hours after three youths reported that someone may have had a gun there, according to a post on the school's website.
"There will continue to be a large police presence on campus today," the announcement said. "Police
have not received nor discovered additional information about a person possibly carrying a weapon beyond that reported this morning.
"The university community may resume normal campus activity. Only Blacksburg campus classes have been cancelled today."
[Update 11:16 a.m.] Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum warned students and others to continue to stay indoors as police search for a person who may be carrying a weapon on campus.
Several people have been questioned but police have not apprehended anyone, Flinchum said.
[Update 11:09 a.m.] No one is in custody and the campus safety alert remains in effect, Virginia Tech's campus police chief says.
[Update 10:31 a.m.] Virginia Tech is in lockdown as authorities look for a man three youths said may have had a weapon, possibly a handgun.
The white male was described as having light brown hair and being 6 feet tall and was walking in the direction of a volleyball court. The man was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, gray shorts and brown sandals. He had no glasses or facial hair, according to the report.
[Original post, 10:18 a.m.] Virginia Tech, the site of a 2007 massacre, has issued an alert saying someone is possibly carrying a weapon on campus.
Regular classes aren't in session at the moment, but there is summer school. The university in Blacksburg, Virginia, is asking people on campus to stay inside and secure doors. The person was spotted near Dietrick Dining Hall.
In April 2007, Cho Seung-Hui, 23, shot dead 32 people on campus before killing himself.
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Prayers to protect VA Tech...and for the families of those worrying about their children on campus.
These are not children, they are adults.
This is why I never went to college..my advice is stay out of school and college
LOL Awesome.
Sounds like good advice. What would you advise people to do? Play video games all day?
this...is not very good advice
hmm. hat explains your comment.
hmm. that explains your comment.
I hope it's a water gun, but if it is a gun, please no one get hurt!
I'm applying this year nonetheless 🙂
It sounds like there will be one open slot, unless they let this guy take correspondence classes from prison.
Like most of these reports lately it will likely turn out to not be a "man with a gun" and will probably turn out to be a "man with an umbrella" or "maintenance man with a drill", then the people who reported it will be patted on the head and praised for panicking at their own shadows.
You know, at least they take precautions! My best friend works there and goes to school there, how would you feel if there coule potentially be a gunman walking around, if you or anyone close to you was there! You would want to take the safe road out too...hopefully you're right and there is no gun, but it's better to be safe than sorry!
@banasy
Second that. Get rid of his lame a ss. He's a moron as well
Round 2
Why is someone with a gun automatically going to shoot the place up? This is America, right?
This IS America. That's why. You are correct.
i bet it's just a false alarm
hopefully it is a false alarm but at least everyone there has acted appropriately
It's a gun.
And in other news.......Hundreds of thousands of morons with less than $5000 net worth each vote for the GOP because the GOP brainwashes those idiots and tell them that democrats want to take away their guns.
Funny. Liberals preach the GOP is for the rich but the poor vote for them, and the rich vote for democrats. Circular reasoning by the left inclined.
And in the same sorta news...Millions of Welfare recipients in the Inner City vote for Obama because he is black and they just don't want to work...
Read mr safety's post. Enough said...
32 people killed was a completely avoidable massacre. If they don't let you sheeple arm yourselves with a gun, then at least swing a chair leg or something and try to mount some kind of defense.
Just heard the reporter say "the other big story today is the stock market fall". No that's not the other big story that's the only "big" story they've reported. The Virginia Tech story is a not a "big story". It's a nothing local story that the cable news hopes will turn into a "big story". Just another case of the "tabloid news" component of cable news.
Tabloid = CNN. NOTW = WSJ = FOX = Tabloid. See the connection?
Easy to say when your aren't on the campus taking summer classes, like some of us here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg
Just because you are an idiot does not mean you have to share it with the rest of the world.....
So they thought they saw a handgun. Wait until guns are allowed on campus. Then everybody will see guns everyday and campus will be shut down for ever. YAY!!!
By the way, if you haven't figured it out yet, I am being sarcastic