April 16, 2007 - Shooting at VT - Dan Krill's BLOG on BinaryBedlam

Shooting at VT
April 16, 2007 05:31:54 PM

     When I went to work on campus today, I had no idea that I'd be walking right into the worst schooting in United States history. The events that I witnessed here today are just terrible, and there are no excusses for these acts of incomprehensible violence. I am not only distraught and saddened over these matters, but am angry and downright pissed off that an engineering student would be so immature and senseless to take his frustrations out in this mannor. I can see this sort of thing happening in HS, but that should be it, never would I have expected a catastrophy of this magnitude to occure at a respected institution of learning, much less my university.

My Version of the events:
     I got to work today at 8:30, a whole hour after the first shooting in West AJ. I had no idea what was going on. I was going about my day as normal. At about 9:50, just after helping a professor with his computer, a group of cleaning ladies in a pannic passed me as I was on my way back to my office. I asked one of them, is something the matter? Her response was that there is a shooter on the loose. Next thing I know, there are cops and resque people rushing around telling us to lock ourselves in. I went into a classroom facing Norris hall. Apparently after wondering around campus for 2 hours, the shooter began his rampage in Norris.
     From that class room, I saw and heard everything. At the beginning of the scenario, there were continuous gun shots. It was the worst sounds I've ever heard. Cops and SWAT team members were rushing in from all angles. Through out, hostages were ran across the parking lot into my building with their hands over their heads and injured people were pulled out in stretchers and placed on one of the many ambulances. Also, wind was so bad that helecopters were unable to fly in to air lift any victems out. This is probabbly one of the reasons so many of the injured died.
     A little later the FBI showed up. After a quick briefing in the parkinglot they rushed in. A few min later, they came out with 3 people handcuffed and walked them over to a remote patch of grass. About an hour later, word finally got out that the gunman was dead. At this point, 22 were already confirmed dead.
     They still weren't letting everyone go yet. It is standart practice to continue the search for more suspects in the event that there were more than one attackers. Because of this, my building wasn't evacuated until about 2 hours later. By the time I was finally allowed to leave, 33 died.
     As was stated before, this was in my very own engineering dept. No names have been released yet, but I can almost be sure that I will know some of the victems that fell here today. I just can't stop thinking about the familys and loved ones of these students. I extend my greatest sympathies to them, and hope that this is the last time something like this ever happens.

2 Cops training their guns on one of the attacked class rooms	Helmuted cops heading to another entrance	Helmuted cops heading to another entrance	FBI planning	FBI planning
Hostage with hands on head transfered to my building	FBI moving in	3 suspects cuffed and marched out	Suspects lined up	Suspects getting padded down
Suspects being interrogated	Suspects being interrogated	More ambulances crews arriving	More hostages being moved	ATF Agents (ammunitions and bomb experts)
Perry St blocked off	West campus drive blocked off	All blacksburg busses isolated in front of Math Empo

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