The Deadliest Shooting

Oh my gosh - I can't believe what is going on here. Someone went off, for who knows what, and killed 32 people, plus himself, and injured 20-30 more. What a tragedy. It's been such a trying day - we still don't know what happened. People are angry that Tech didn't go into a lockdown mode as soon as the first shooting happened - but it's so hard to do with a school that big. Apparently he was having a disagreement with a girl - most likely his ex girlfriend in West Ambler Johnston. He shot her and she died. The RA came out to find out what was going on, and he shot him as well. We didn't know that the RA was dead for quite some time - my assumption is that he didn't die right away. Then, 2 1/2 hours later he ended up in Norris (engineering building) and killed 30 more people. Different reports are coming out - he chained locked some of the classrooms and killed people in there - just by randomly shooting. Another report is that he locked himself in a classroom and killed everyone in there. He ended up killing himself.

They aren't releasing his name yet - they have said that he's Asian. They think he might be here from China on a student visa. And that he was mad that his ex girlfriend broke up with him and was dating someone else - most likely an engineer. But we just don't know yet. Sean has a friend who is unaccounted for - he thinks his friend was killed, or injured. That's hard to deal with. Mandy Lee is safe - that's good. Her boyfriend lives in AJ, but he's also safe. And Ash is okay, along with the rest of the fraternity.

I feel so empty right now. And sad, and mad and frustrated. I'm sad for those who were hurt, killed, injured, for VT and Blacksburg. And I'm mad and frustrated that this jerk took away our safe place, or safe haven. How dare he. How dare he walk around my campus carrying guns and shooting people. He had no right to take someone else's life. What a coward he is. I'm glad he's dead - he wouldn't have lasted in prison. But now we have to be known as the school where the deadliest shooting in history occurred. That's not right. We're a peaceful school in a peaceful town.