VA Tech Shooting, 30 Dead

[Ms.Behavin]

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/gunman-kills-21-people-at-virginia-tech/20070416102509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

[zeboo]

Sad day my heart goes out to the Families  0:

[Monkey]

All of the stations are reporting different numbers.

CNN says 22 dead
ABC says 29 dead
FOX says 32 dead

[Ms.Behavin]

I have some friends that go there. I can't get a hold of them.  :((

[TmT]

My sister-in-law jus called me inquirin if my older daughter is there.... wrong school, I told her.... but my prayers goes out to the parents concerned if their child is okay and even more to the parents that loss their child.

[Ms.Behavin]

Well I heard it was at the dorms, so none of my friends stay there. My heart goes out to all those families. What a tragedy.

[harley89]

Prayers for all. Good Lord when will it stop

[gator8_24]

There are total of 33 killed including the gunman, the first shooting was in a dorm the last and most deadly was an engineering bldg.  I believe heard it correctly same date as the Columbine shootings. So sad.

[apple]

it so so sad apparently the gunman had a fall out with his gf

[kandykitty20012]

 0: Prayers out to students and families and all those who lost thier lives  0:

[Tara]

My prayers go out to all the families.  :((

[Homer]

Man you need to go over to the smoking gun and read the story this looney tune made up. Definite mental issues.

[Monkey]

Oh my god....  ::)

This guy deserves to rot in hell




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18183171/displaymode/1107/s/2/

More pics here on the slideshow. Just follow the above link ^^^^^^^^^

[Ms.Behavin]

Yeah he does. He went to a High school right around the block from me. What a disgrace!

[Tara]

Oh my god....  ::)

This guy deserves to rot in hell




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18183171/displaymode/1107/s/2/

More pics here on the slideshow. Just follow the above link ^^^^^^^^^

They are showing this on my news right now...I mean what dude was saying in the video.

[gator8_24]

VA authorities are not happy with NBC for showing the pics and video.


Families cancel NBC appearances over gunman video 2 hours, 28 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some family members of the victims killed at Virginia Tech university canceled interviews with NBC on Thursday because the television network aired video and photographs of the killer it received in the mail.

Police handling the investigation into the shooting also expressed disappointment at the airing of the images and rants by Cho Seung-Hui, who killed 32 people and then himself in the worst shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

"We had planned to speak to some family members of victims this morning but they canceled their appearances because they were very upset with NBC for airing the images," said NBC "Today" morning program co-host Meredith Vieira.

Cho, a student from        South Korea mailed photographs of himself posing with the guns he bought and video railing against rich kids and debauchery. The package to NBC News was mailed after he killed his first two victims on Monday morning but before he cut down 30 more people in classrooms.

While NBC acknowledged that the material from Cho were likely devastating to the victims' families and that its news division was split over whether to air the material, NBC News President Steve Capus defended the decision to do so, arguing it only showed a small amount of the images they received.

"This is I think as close as we will ever come to being inside of the mind of a killer, and I thought that it needed to be released," he said on MSNBC. "Pretty much every single news organization all around the world has made the same decision, that it was appropriate to release this information."

NBC said it contacted authorities as soon as it received the package on Wednesday.

Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said at a news conference on Thursday investigators appreciated NBC's cooperation.

However, he added, "We're rather disappointed in the editorial decision to broadcast these disturbing images."

Flaherty said the package had turned out to yield little that investigators did not already know.

NBC is owned by General Electric Co.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070419/us_nm/usa_crime_shooting_nbc_dc