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Virginia Tech student's blog entry

by Kaitlin | April 16, 2007 at 09:08 am

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Virginia Tech Communications student Neal Turnage posted the following entry to the blog page for "Planet Blacksburg," a campus media outlet.

We can only publish what we know for sure, but in the blog I can tell you a little bit more of what we’ve heard. None of this is confirmed or should be treated as gospel. I just want to help you all understand things from our side.

I was fortunate enough to have not made it to campus when the incidents occured. My wife works in Burruss Hall and through some cosmic coincidence she had to fly to Chicago for a business trip. On any other Monday she would have been in that building and I would have been on campus nearby.

Sitting in the Roanoke Airport with my laptop open, I’ve been communicating with fellow students via email, instant messenger and by phone. I’ve heard that as many as 20 people have been killed. According to my wife, one of her co-workers actually saw two students gunned down.

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at 15:35 on April 16th, 2007

Have a friend whose husband is a professor - he said they were locked down for about 2 hours... then someone came and told them all to leave. He said that the first shots were in a dorm, where he thinks one child was killed and one was injured. The shooter walked all the way across campus to the academic building. He said it was about a 1/2 mile walk. He thought this strange since the shooter had to have had a lot of fire power with him. He was stunned. Not a lot of details available to him. His laptop was not working, so he talked to his wife on the cell the whole time. HORRIBLE