Monday, April 16, 2007

The Heart Is Decietfully Wicked..Who Can Know It?

For those of you who haven't heard yet these are the events that happened earlier today...
Here are some section taken from the Toronto Star...

33 die, 26 hurt in bloodbath

Gunman opened fire on campus of Virginia Tech University, then killed himself.

Apr 16, 2007 04:20 PM SUE LINDSEY
Associated PressBLACKSBURG, Va. — A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech University dorm this morning and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom across campus, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.

- The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

- The massacre took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.
Two people were killed in a dormitory room and 31 others were killed in the engineering building, including the gunman, police said.

- “Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” Steger said. “The university is shocked and indeed horrified.’’

- Up until today, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

- The massacre today took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High School bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

- Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state’s largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse Hokies football team.

- The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus. The campus is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets — who now represent a fraction of the student body — once practiced. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

As George W. Bush said in his presedential address this afternoon, may we all keep the families affected by these tragedies in our prayers and may the God of comfort be with them.

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