updated 2-15-08 

DeathStar

A Prophecy

by Dee Finney

11-2-99

  What has this world come to?

  Do we now fight battles in our cities?

  Do we now kill each other instead of the enemy?

  Why have our children become killers?

   Who has taught our children to kill?

   When Obi Wan Knobi said, "Let the force be with you!"
   he didn't mean the dark forces . . . he meant the 'light'!!!!

   Will there be more killings in our schools?

  The answer is "Yes!"  

  Why has the Deathstar come to our cities?

   Who is the real enemy?

     Who is their leader?
 

WHAT A WAKEUP!

Dear God:
Why didn't you save the school children at :

Northern Illinois University,
 DeKalb, IL 2-14-08
Oxnard, CA  2-14-08
Washington, DC  2-13-08
Memphis, TN  2-11-08
Portsmouth, OH  2-07-08
 Cleveland, Ohio - 10-10-07
 Virginia Tech 04/16/07
Amish Country, PA -10-07
 West Paducah , Kentucky - 12-1-07
CAZENOVIA, Wis. -9-29-06
 BAILEY, Colorado. Sep 28, 2006
 Tennessee - 11.08.2005
 New Orleans -  3- 18 - 2005
Greensboro , NC- 3-16-2005
Washington, D.C.  - 3- 03, 2005
Cold Spring - Minnesota, 9 - 2003
Germany - 4 - 26, 2002
Santee, California - 3-5-01
El Cajon, California - 3-22-01
Lakeworth, FL - May 26, 2000
Columbine High School -  4- 20 -1999
Littleton, Colorado - 4-20-99
Taber, Alberta, Canada - 5-28-99
Conyers, Georgia - 5-20-99
Deming, New Mexico - 11-19-99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma - 12-6-99
 Jonesboro , Arkansas - 3-24-98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania - 4-24-98
Fayetteville , Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon, 5-21-98
Richmond, Virginia - 6-15-98
Bethel, Alaska - 2-19-97
Pearl, Mississippi - 10-1-97
Stam! p, Arkansas - 12-15-97
Moses Lake, Washington, 2-2-96

Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God

 



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Which city will be next?

A highschool will again experience death!

Los Angeles, California

This city will become known as Deathstar City

11-3-99 - DREAM  - Through a series of events I was going from city to city and Los Angeles was named the "Deathstar" city.

I was in an apartment building and I got a bag of fertilizer for a gift which came by mail. A skinny man who lived on the first floor had taken the delivery. He had received it in a box and took it out of the box and handed it to me. He wanted to know if he should bring it upstairs but I said, "No! I can handle it myself."

I had been on my way to the basement to check out my locker situation since I had just moved here. The first time I went down I didn't take my keys with me, so the second time I took a ring of master keys with me and another old lady went down also. When we went back up, the elevator stopped 6" short of the floor I lived on so I threw myself on the floor with the bag of fertilizer so the elevator wouldn't fall back down with me on it.

I then went to my apartment and my daughter-in-law Becky was with me. There was a park bench type thing by the door and an old man 60 to 70 years old and a younger dark-haired guy in my apartment and they sat down to rest a moment. The old man was a widower and quite good looking for his age, round faced and white hair. He told the younger man he was lonely and needed companionship. The young guy was agreeing it was a good idea and then started throwing in 'gay' hints towards the old man.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My daughter-in-law Becky nodded towards the door and I followed her. We went to the stairway and the first couple steps were about 3 feet down each. So we went to about the 3rd step down to be out of site of the men to talk, but we continued on down the stairs which were very strange. They were convex shaped, curved downward and some being 3 feet down, we just went on down...fast...and the last 15 feet was like a pile of green newspapers stacked up.  We literally slid down like a slide.

By now we were down in the basement and I heard some women coming...sounded like female troops and Becky and I started running like hell down the hall away from them. I was trying to make it to the other end of the building before the women appeared and I made it just as the women reached the hallway behind me.

I leaped over a fallen bicycle where an old black woman stood and ran out into the yard.

There I saw 6 cops all dressed in black like a SWAT team...crouched low...headed for a school.

I decided I had better do the same and I followed them towards the school. The students obviously didn't know what was going on. They seemed oblivious to all this.

The whole school was surrounded by a thick black screening so I entered the school to walk all the way back to my apartment building instead of going through the pretty yard outside that was full of flower beds and green grass.  

What a world we have created!!!

Followup 4-17-00

Date: 04/17/2000
From: (J. L.)

Dear Dee,

I might be able to (unfortunately) add some thoughts to your dream with the weird staircase with the pile of "green" newspapers at the end.

As you may remember, I live about 60 miles east of L.A., just off Interstate 10. I was reading your dream and got to the part where you were sliding down into the basement on a pile of "green newspapers" and the building you lived in was near a school.

Hubby delivers weekly newspapers called "The Green Sheet" and one of his routes is a Thursday route. On that route, he passes four schools -- two high schools and two elementary schools -- all during school hours. The paper was named that for one main reason -- the cover pages and the center are on a green background. Also, the company has, for several years, been using environmentally friendly, recycled ("green") paper.

Anyway, what I was getting at was that the delivery area covers about 10,000 square miles, with the western side about 20 miles east of L.A. That could represent your building. The school could be one of the hundreds in the L.A.U.S.D., which now includes most of Los Angeles County. Since you were able to walk between your building and that black-enshrouded school, I would look mainly at the eastern portion of L.A. County, which would include small cities like Pico Rivera (where I grew up), El Monte, Montebello, Downey, Whittier, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, Los Nietos, San Gabriel, West Covina, etc. All of these cities have experienced several newsworthy instances of violence in the last few years. The children there would be oblivious to the SWAT screenings because they have become accustomed to having to be interviewed by police while at school.

Gunman Opens Fire at Northern Illinois University

Hospital Reports 17 Victims

Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, February 14, 2008; 7:07 PM

NOTE: A later report at 7:41 p.m. states that 5 are dead.
 

  A gunman armed with a shotgun burst into a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University this afternoon and opened fire,  
  wounding at least 17 people, three critically, before taking his own life, authorities said.
 
The shooter, described by witnesses as a thin white male dressed in black and wearing a stocking cap, entered Cole Hall on the university's campus in DeKalb, Ill., and began shooting at students and a teacher in a science class, witnesses told a local radio station and a student newspaper.

At least 17 people were taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital to be treated for injuries, the hospital said on its Web site. It said earlier that four victims with head wounds had arrived.

The hospital said that it had no fatalities among the patients brought there, although one of three patients in critical condition was airlifted to another hospital in Rockford, Ill., about 30 miles away. The hospital said eight of the victims were "stable" and six were in "good condition." It said it did not expect to transfer any other patients.

The university announced late this afternoon that the gunman had killed himself. It said police confirmed "that the shooter is dead by a self-inflicted gunshot."

Agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting local authorities at the scene, the Chicago Tribune reported. A spokesman for the agency, Thomas Ahern, said he did not know if the shooter was a student or what his motive might have been.

The school first reported the incident at 3:20 p.m. Central time, saying there was "a report of a possible gunman on campus" and urging people to "get to a safe area." Authorities confirmed 30 minutes later that a shooting had taken place and promptly canceled classes.

The school later reported that "the immediate danger has passed" and that "the gunman is no longer a threat." It said the campus will be closed tomorrow and that students could go to residence halls for counseling.

Theresa Komitas, a spokeswoman for Kishwaukee Community Hospital said the hospital initially received four patients with head wounds but that there was no immediate information on their condition.

Komitas said her facility is the closest hospital to the shooting and that victims were expected to be sent there first before being transferred elsewhere if necessary.

"We've called all the staff in," she said. Komitas said the hospital would keep the public updated on the number of injured and their conditions via its Web site.

The university, which has a student enrollment of more than 25,000 and is located in DeKalb, about 65 miles west of Chicago, canceled all classes and urged people to stay away from campus. The university's main campus in DeKalb covers 755 acres.

A witness told WBBM radio that the gunman entered a science class through an emergency exit -- shotgun in hand -- and began shooting toward the middle of the lecture hall. The shooter then began firing toward the professor, according to the witness.

Sheila Cosgrove, a student who was in the room when the gunman started shooting, said in an interview on WBBM that he appeared to be aiming at certain people.

"He was quiet. He stood on the stage in the front of the room," said Cosgrove, who described the shooter as a white male about six feet tall. "I saw him holding the gun and it was huge. I thought it was fake and then I realized he was actually shooting at people and I got down. . . . I have blood all over my clothes."

Another student who was in the room, George Gaynor, said the shooter was "a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on," the campus newspaper Northern Star reported on its Web site. He described the scene as terrifying and chaotic. "Some girl got hit in the eye; a guy got hit in the leg," the paper quoted Gaynor as saying outside the hall minutes after the shooting.

In April of last year, a student with a history of mental problems killed 32 people in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, the worst rampage in U.S. history. A review by a state-appointed panel after the shooting criticized Virginia Tech administrators for failing to take quicker action in shutting down the campus, saying it might have reduced casualties.

Northern Illinois University faced a threat of violence as recently as two months ago. University officials closed the school for a day in early December and rescheduled some final exams after students found two separate threats scrawled on a bathroom wall in a residence hall, according to local news reports at the time.

The messages included racial slurs aimed at black students and references to the Virginia Tech shootings. Several black students were quoted in news stories as saying they felt unsafe on campus, even with an increased police presence.

In a Dec. 11 message to all students, NIU President John G. Peters said the graffiti was considered a "credible threat." He said school officials had ordered a police presence around all final exam sites after the campus reopened.

"Events of the past several days remind all of us that community is more than a word, and that threats against a group are a threat to us all," Peters wrote.

More than 90 percent of students at the university, which was chartered in 1895, are from Illinois. Racial minorities make up 26 percent of the student population.

 
  Oxnard school shooting called a hate crime

 

By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
3:44 PM PST, February 14, 2008
Prosecutors today alleged that the shooting of 15-year-old eighth-grader at an Oxnard campus by a classmate was a hate crime.

The 14-year-old defendant was charged with premeditated murder with a special allegation of using a firearm in the commission of a hate crime. The victim, Lawrence King, who was declared brain dead on Wednesday.

Prosecutors will ask that the boy be tried as an adult once King is taken off a ventilator, said senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Maeve Fox. She declined to discuss the hate-crime allegation.

"We've never had a violent shooting like this in Ventura County," Fox said. "It's very tragic."

Defense attorney Brian Vogel said the defendant and his family, who were in court for his arraignment hearing, said that they were also hurting.

The boy and his "family are terribly sad to learn that [King] is brain dead," Vogel said.

He said the defendant, whose name is being withheld because of his age, did not have a prior criminal history and was generally a good student. Vogel said the boy just turned 14 on Jan. 24.

King was shot in the head early Tuesday in a classroom full of students at E.O. Green Junior High School.

Police said the suspect shot King at least twice at the beginning of their first-period English class and then fled the campus. The boy was apprehended by police a few blocks away.

Several students at the south Oxnard campus said King and his alleged assailant had a falling-out stemming from King's sexual orientation. The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay, students said.

"He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails -- the whole thing," said Michael Sweeney, 13, an eighth-grader. "That was freaking the guys out."

Student Juan Sandoval, 14, said he shared a fourth-period algebra class with the suspect, whom he described as a calm, smart student who played on the basketball team.

"I didn't think he was that kind of kid," Sandoval said. "I guess you never know. He made a big mistake."

"Their lives are both destroyed now," said student Hansley Rivera, 12.

Several students said that a day before the shooting, King and several boys had some kind of altercation during the lunch period.

Jay Richard Smith, executive director of Ventura County Rainbow Alliance, a nonprofit group which advocates gay and lesbian rights, attended today's court hearing and said his group would be keeping a close eye on the trial.

"This is an equality issue," he said. "Every child should be able to go to school and be safe. We want to make sure that happens."

Bullying in schools has long been a problem. But recent studies show that a student who comes "out" as gay or lesbian is far more likely to suffer abuse than others, said Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network based in New York.

A student thought to be gay was five times as likely to be threatened or injured by a weapon, a 2002 California Department of Education study said.

Jennings said other studies have found similar results. His group advocates more teacher training on how to handle bullying and harassment, specifically of gay students.

"This Oxnard shooting is very upsetting but not surprising," Jennings said. "The real issue is not the kid coming out, but the kid sitting next to him. Schools must teach that we may not like one another, but we must respect one another."

Teachers and counselors at E.O. Green Junior High, meanwhile, sought to calm fears about escalating violence at the south Oxnard campus. Hueneme School District Supt. Jerry Dannenberg said the school would have extra staff and police on campus for the next few days.

Counselors will be on hand as long as needed, Dannenberg said. The school district will hold a meeting for parents next week to discuss concerns.

This week's shooting was a first, not only for the school but for all of Ventura County, which has never before seen a classroom fatality.

 catherine.saillant@latimes.com
 
Witnesses Say They Saw Gunman In SE School Shooting

Alleged Shooter, Others Reportedly Seen Yelling From Vehicle

POSTED: 7:30 am EST February 13, 2008
 
Deidrick Johnson, 17, is being held without bond on charges of assault with intent to kill in the shooting Jan. 22.

The charging documents said a witness told police that charging documents say the teenager accused of shooting four students near Ballou High School in Southeast Washington fired shots from the open sunroof of a passing car.

Deidrick Johnson, 17, is being held without bond on charges of assault with intent to kill in the shooting Jan. 22.

The charging documents said a witness told police that Johnson and others with him were seen driving near the school before the shooting and shoulting "Oy" at pedestrians. According to the documents, "Oy" is a code word for the Barry Farm housing complex, where Johnson lived.

Johnson is charged as an adult and faces a court hearing Feb. 25. He's also charged in a drive-by shooting 11 days earlier in January that wounded five people.

 

Student charged in Memphis school shooting

Published: Feb. 11, 2008 at 11:03 PM

MEMPHIS, TN  (UPI) -- Memphis police charged a Mitchell High School student with attempted first-degree murder after a Monday shooting that left a classmate in critical condition.

Sophomore Corneilous Cheers, 17, allegedly shot senior Stacey Dominique Kiser Monday morning during a physical education class in the school cafeteria. In addition to the attempted murder count, Cheers also was charged with carrying a weapon on school property, unlawful possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported.

Kiser was listed in critical condition at Regional Medical Center at Memphis. His sister, Brooke Kiser, 22, said he was shot in the neck, groin and leg.

She also attributed the shooting to gang-related activities.

Mitchell High Principal John Ware said the suspect shot the victim, then gave the gun to the coach. "It's over now," Ware quoted Cheers as saying.

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Suspect's Step-Mom Blames Victim in Mitchell Shooting

12 Feb. 2008, 4:22 p.m. CST

y April Norris

 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WHBQ FOX13 myfoxmemphis.com)  -- 

The 17-year-old student who shot his classmate three times inside Mitchell High School faced a judge Tuesday. Prosecutors are still deciding if he'll be charged as an adult.

It was a fast hearing, but the 17-year-old will stay locked up under the juvenile court system until his next court hearing in two weeks. The judge wanted to give his family time to hire an attorney.

Surrounded by family and friends, the father of the alleged shooter walked out of Juvenile Court Tuesday with nothing to say.

Police said the Mitchell High School sophomore shot his classmate 19-year-old Stacey Kiser, a senior, three times inside the cafeteria Monday morning.

Prosecutors said they're leaning toward charging the sophomore as an adult. He's facing attempted first degree murder.

As the accused teen's family looks for an attorney, Kiser's grandfather is sitting by his bedside.

"They just got him so sedated," said the victim's grandfather William Kiser. "He can nod his head and he just held my hand. He's doing pretty good."

Mitchell High School's principle said the shooting stemmed from a fight the students got into during the weekend. He said the sophomore walked up to Kiser, shot him and then handed the gun to a football coach nearby saying "It's over."
   
Over the phone, his step-mother said Kiser caused the shooting. She said he recently flashed a gun at her son and continuously threatened him. She said her step-son was tired of being bullied and they had a history of fighting.

Kiser's sister, who didn't want to be identified, said she thought the shooting was gang related but was shocked.

Both teens have been in trouble with the law before. Kiser's been arrested for burglary, misdemeanor assault and promoting gambling. Before being charged with attempted first degree murder, the accused shooter had one misdemeanor assault charge.

Now he faces a laundry list of charges.

The sophomore has also been charged with carrying a gun and they tacked another charge on for carrying it on school property.

Police are trying to find out where he got the gun.

The 17-year-old will face a judge again February 27. That's when he'll find out if he's being charged as an adult.

 

Suspect in Ohio School Shooting Dies

By TERRY KINNEY – Feb 7, 2008

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) — A teacher's husband charged into her fifth-grade classroom Thursday morning, then stabbed and shot her as students watched, police said. He was later found dead in his home after a standoff with police.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) — A teacher's husband charged into her fifth-grade classroom Thursday morning, then stabbed and shot her as students watched, police said. He fled and was believed to be holed up in a nearby home.

Emmaly Baker, a student at Notre Dame Elementary, said she hid in the clasroom's coatroom when the gunman came in. The teacher was in critical condition.

"We heard gunshots, and we heard her yelling. I was scared," she told WSAZ-TV. "The police officer came and got us and she was still laying there and she was hurt really bad."

Later in the day, SWAT teams surrounded a home near the school where they believe the suspect fled. Neighbors heard shots fired at the house.

Kim Harris, who cares for a man who lives next door, said at one point police fired at the house after gunshots came from inside the home. Police "told us to get down on the floor and stay in the back of the house," she said.

Another person was stabbed in town before the shooting, and authorities believed it was connected to the teacher's shooting, Portsmouth police Capt. Rob Ware said. He did not elaborate.

The shooting happened around 9 a.m. at the Catholic school on the main road in Portsmouth, a community in southern Ohio near the Kentucky border.

Parents, many with cell phones clutched to their ears, congregated and began leaving with their children around 10:30 a.m., said Kathy Hall, the office manager at the Cornerstone United Methodist Church across the street from the school.

"I wasn't afraid for my own safety, I was afraid for the children, because these turn out so terrible, you know," said Hall.

The scene was chaotic with police cars and few ambulances descending on the school, and the fire department blocked off the street.

The school and another Catholic school nearby were locked down, said Deacon Tom Berg, vice chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. The diocese was sending a crisis team.

Public schools also were put on lockdown, said Superintendent Jan Broughton, who oversees the community's public schools.

 

SuccessTech Academy High School Shooting, Police: Gunman Dead, 4 Shot
by Jack Ryan

10-10-07

Success Tech Academy in East Cleveland, Ohio Shooting: The 14-year-old gunman that shot four victims appears to have shot and killed himself.

The student, who was believed to have been placed under arrest after he went on a shooting rampage at the non-traditional East Cleveland High School, is dead after shooting 2 students and 2 adults.

A 14-year-old Success Tech Academy student opened fire in the school, shooting at least 2 students and 2 adults.

The shooter was reportedly angry after being suspended earlier this week and showed up at the school today during eighth period with two guns, one in each hand.

The shootings took place on the third and fourth floor as the principal yelled "code blue" over the PA system. The shooter was walking through the hallways while firing both guns.

The AP reports that police have confirmed the shooter is dead and appears to have shot himself.

The Success Tech Academy has been secured after S.W.A.T. ran a room-by-room sweep. The 2 students shot have non life-threatening injuries and the adults' conditions are slightly elevated.

According to the Mayor, 2 adults and 2 students have been shot, all male. The mayor has claimed a total of 5 have been injured - one being a 14-year-old girl who scraped her knee while trying to escape from the school. She was not shot.

One student reportedly came running out of the building screaming "Have I been shot?!" - He had two bullet wounds in his back.

One student was told by the gunman he had plans to open fire in the school - the student thought he was "kidding". The gunman said 'I'll call you before I shoot', but the fellow student never received a phone call.

 

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Did Asa Coon leave a clue about shooting?

NOTE:  The myspace account was a hoax by someone else.

Posted by Mark Naymik
October 11, 2007 10:05AM

Categories: Breaking News, School shooting
 
Asa Coon, the Cleveland teenager who opened fire Wednesday at his downtown high school, may have posted an ominous message on a social networking site the night before the shooting.

"I'm sick and tired of this s---." a person identifying himself as Asa wrote Tuesday night on a Myspace page. "People at school -- me off all the time, the teachers are all -- . i got suspended yesterday for fighting with some -- even though he started s-- with me. f--- all of them, i hate everyone there. i hate the school and i hate f--- cleveland."

While it's unclear whether the message and the related profile page is actually Asa's, the page features music by rocker Marilyn Manson, whom Asa idolized. A brief biography on the page, describes Asa as slim 14-year-old boy from Cleveland who is an atheist. Asa, who was 14-years-old and is known to have argued with fellow students over religion, was a chubby teen.

UPDATE: The Asa Coon Myspace page was not available Wednesday on the networking site, according to repeated searches conducted that day, adding to the uncertainty of the site's author.

More than 170 messages have been linked to the Asa's Myspace page.

href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/10/success_tech_shooter_shot_hims.html">Coroner rules Asa's death a suicide
 Complete coverage from The Plain Dealer

Asa Coon MySpace page a fake

Posted by Christopher Evans October 11, 2007 12:27PM

Categories: School shooting
A Utah teenager has admitted creating a fake Asa Coon Web page on the social networking site Myspace.com.

Posing as the gunman in Wednesday's shooting at Success Tech Academy in Cleveland, the 19-year-old creator of the fake Web site said in an email exchange with the Plain Dealer: "I don't generally give out personal information ... I, like many others (search for any famous person) make fake profiles on MySpace for the sole purpose of giving people a place to vent their thoughts and feelings."

Several national television news organizations and Web sites have quoted from Coon's page as real. Coon killed himself after shooting two teachers and two students.

"I realize I should put a disclaimer of sorts stating that this isn't the Official Asa H. Coon MySpace, but I believe if I did do that people wouldn't express their feelings," said the page creator who published the information at approximately 9:30 pm Pacific Standard Time, 12:30 am here. "I've been reading the comments on the stories on the major Cleveland News Agency websites, and I hear a lot of anger. When people do believe this is Asa Coon's MySpace, and they know that he will never read these, the people are inclined to express their true thoughts and feelings, if that makes much sense.

The teen, who lives in Orem, said he found a photo of "Asa Coon" after searching for "Goth kid" on www.photobucket.com, a site where people share photos.

The teen also claims credit for creating a fake Myspace profile for the Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho.

"I created that profile late in the event happened, and throughout that week and weekend the page accumulated over 300,000 page views, as well as 20,000 blog comments," he says. "The Seung-Hui Cho profile was removed from MySpace after many people reported it, and I expect this profile will disappear in the next few days."

UPDATE: The Asa Coon page was removed from Myspace.com about 12:30 p.m. Cleveland time.
 

 

 
33 DEAD IN SHOOTING RAMPAGE AT VIRGINIA TECH  (updated number)

4-16-07



A  gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 33 people and wounding another 21 before he was killed, police said.

The university said in a news release there were multiple victims.

The shootings happened at West Ambler Johnston, a residence hall and an engineering building, Norris Hall, on opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus.

"There has been a multiple shooting with multiple victims," the Web site reported.

Students were asked to stay in their homes away from windows.

"There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on," said student Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the building where shooting took place.

The initial shooting was reported at West Ambler Johnston Hall, which houses nearly 900 students.

Officials ordered the campus closed, the second time in less than a year the 26,000-student campus was shut because of a shooting.

In August 2006, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus.

The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.

NOTE:  The gunman in this case is dead.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
Shooting on Virgina Tech Campus Leaves 33 Dead (updated number)
By Staff

(AXcess News) Washington - An unknown assailant took the lives of at least 31 students at Blacksburg, Virginia Tech University this morning at two campus locations.  The University said on a post on its website that police shot and killed one suspected gunman.  Another 21 students were being treated for gunshot wounds at two locations; Montgomery Regional Hospital was treating 17 students who'd been shot and another 4, one in critical condition, were being treated at Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Christiansburg.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said during a press conference shortly after noon. "I cannot begin to convey my own personal sense of loss over this senseless, incomprehensible, heinous act."

Reports contradict the University's earlier post about a gunman having been killed.  Local police say they have one suspect in custody in the shooting and are searching the Tech school for a possible second gunman at this time.

The shootings took place at two locations at Virginia Tech; West Ambler Johnston, sometime around 7 to 8am and Norris Hall around 10am.

Police are on the scene and are investigating along with the FBI.

Virginia Tech has the largest full-time student population in Virginia, with more than 25,000 students. It consists of eight colleges and graduate school and offers 60 bachelor's degree programs and 140 master's and doctoral degree programs.

The main campus includes more than 100 buildings located on 2,600 acres, and includes an airport.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811  

– THE DETAILS YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT YET! –  

JILTED LOVER WITH AN EXPRESSIONLESS LOOK SHOWING NO EMOTION LIKE THAT OF A MIND CONTROLLED, PROGRAMMED ASSASSIN! / WAS HE UNDER SOME KIND OF
HYPNOTIC TRANCE?! / JEALOUS LOVER TIFF IN THE DORMITORY ... THEN THE UNIVERISTY CRAZED KILLER BEGAN HIS DEADLY, MIND-BOGGLING, BLOODY CAMPUS
SHOOTING RAMPAGE! – 
By David Williams, Staff Writer, The Daily Mail, Associated News Media,
Tuesday, April 17,2007      

– FIRING SQUAD: Terrified students lined up against the wall of their classroom and shot, execution-style.

– NO WAY OUT: Doors chained shut by the killer to keep his victims in and police out.

– BODIES EVERYWHERE: Blood-soaked bodies piled on top of each other.

These were the scenes of almost inconceivable horror at Virginia Tech University yesterday as a gunman claimed at least 32 lives before killing himself.

He was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student adviser was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and SHOT DEAD BOTH HIS GIRLFRIEND AND THE ADVISER.

Two hours later he rampaged through an engineering building on the other side of the campus in the town of Blacksburg, killing indiscriminately.

Student Matt Maroney said: "He had an ungodly amount of ammo on him. He was just dressed in a vest filled with clips and started firing away at classrooms." 
Another witness said of the killer: "He had a smile on his face but THERE WAS NO EMOTION IN HIS EYES."

Last night, with 15 more victims injured and the death toll expected to rise further, police and university authorities faced stark questions about their failure to act during the crucial two hours and prevent America's worst-ever massacre.

Some students continued their work unaware there was a killer in their midst, while university authorities merely sent round an email saying that a shooting was being investigated. The gunman was said to be of Asian appearance and dressed in maroon hat, leather jacket and black-military style shooting vest.  (He was from South Korea)

He had ammunition strapped across his chest as he calmly walked from room to room refilling his two 9 mm handguns as he shot students. He locked the doors of several classrooms to stop anyone escaping.

Some terrified students jumped for their lives from the fourth floor windows, while others used desks to barricade doors.

Student David Jenkins said: "I know one person who was in a room when the shooter came in and everyone was shot. TO ESCAPE this person lay on the floor and PLAYED DEAD."

Several teachers were among those shot. Student Derek O'Dell, who was hit in the arm, spoke of his terror as he faced the killer.

"He came into our room and started shooting," he said.

"He let off a full round of bullets and I was probably one of ten or 15 people hit. There was no warning. It was just random shooting. He didn't say anything. He just shot and left. A lot of my classmates were hit, and possibly my professor too.

"The people who were less critical like myself were able to hold the door shut because he tried to get back inside our room. He tried shooting through the door at us.

"Then the police came into our hall and cleared the hall and we all managed to get out to where ambulances were waiting for us."   

Virginia Tech president Charles Steger said: "The university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions ... the university is shocked and indeed horrified."

He said authorities at first believed that the first shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and that the gunman had fled the campus. He added: "We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it."

The sprawling 2,600-acre campus of 25,000 students housed in 100 buildings had been closed down twice in the last ten days after bomb scares. It was unclear whether the bomb threats were related or whether the gunman had any possible terror associations.

The first shootings yesterday took place at 7.15 a.m. (12.15 p.m. British time) at the West Ambler Johnston complex, a coeducational hall of residence which houses 895 students. Security there is said to have been tight with individual identity passes used to enter the dormitory complex.

An immediate lockdown was ordered with students told to remain in their rooms and away from windows as police and security officials swamped the area. As some students fled the scene, they were tackled to the ground and handcuffed by police seeking to stop the killer fleeing in the chaos.

However other students around the campus were allowed to leave for their 8 a.m. classes. Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dormitory when authorities got word of gunfire at Norris Hall, the engineering building.

The gunman appeared to pick his victims indiscriminately. Some, for no apparent reason, he spared. Others he shot from less than 10ft away. He is then said to have turned one of his guns on himself despite still having ammunition available.

Student Jason Piatt said: "I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 a.m. and the first e-mail about it had no mention of locking down the campus, no mention of cancelling classes.  

"They just mentioned that they were investigating a shooting. That's pretty ridiculous. Meanwhile, while they sent out that email, all these people got killed."  

Student Matt Maloney told how terrified students used desks to barricade themselves in their classrooms as the gunman walked down the main corridor blasting off shots. He said he saw several badly wounded students being led away while others had been injured leaping for their lives from upstairs windows.

Josh Wargo was one of those who jumped. He said: "I was in an engineering class. We all of a sudden heard loud banging noises. We heard screaming through the walls and everyone started to panic and jumping out of the windows.

"We heard 40 or 50 shots. They went on for almost two minutes. The window I jumped out of was two or three storeys up. When I landed I was in a daze, standing outside of the building. Some of my friends got shot. They told me my professor was shot in the face."   

Tiffany Otey, who was one floor up in the Norris Building, said that when the gunfire started she and about 20 other students went to a teacher's office and locked the door.

"The gunshots were going off downstairs and half of our classmates were downstairs," said Miss Otey.

"We were just sitting there as if the shooter was going to come up the next floor.

"Maybe ten minutes later we were in the room when police arrived. They told us to put our hands above our heads and if we did not put our hands above our heads we will shoot you. We were running out of the building freaking out."  

The shooting will re-open the often heated debate over gun controls in the U.S., whose Constitution declares that the people's right to bear arms must not be infringed.

A sombre President Bush went on TV last night to say: "Schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom, in every American community.

"We hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers."   
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FAST FACTS ABOUT VIRGINIA TECH: 

School Type: First Tier 
National Ranking: #80 
Overall Score: 48 out of 100 
Peer Assessment: 3.4 out of 5.0 
Average Freshman Retenion Rate: 87% 
% of Faculty Who Are Full Time: 95% 
SAT/ACT Scores: 1110-1290  
Freshmen in Top 10% of Their Class: 37%  
Acceptance Rate: 72%  
Average Alumni Giving Rate: 21% 

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Virginia Tech's ENGINEERING SCHOOL is ranked #18 in the nation ... AND ... it is ranked #35 in "The TOP 50 PUBLIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES" 

(U C Berkeley is #1 and UCLA is #4) 
 
SOURCE: 2007 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT's "AMERICA's BEST COLLEGES" (pp. 82, 85, 112, 114) 

http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/
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© 2007 Associated New Media


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There is more than one thing going on here.  The shooter is said to be a South Korean citizen. (His parents live in the U.S.)
not just an 'Asian'.  (His name sounds Chinese) Too many people already know that the Chinese are trying to take over the U.S.  First thing they want to do is make us weak.  First thing they did was to weaken our economy and buy everything out from under us - make sure their good were cheap so we didn't have jobs because U.S. companies used 'their employees instead of ours.  Hardly anyone speaks good English if you have to call for tech support or get called from a credit card company - Notice that?  Then the U.S. will use this incident - once again to get the guns out of our hands so we can't defend ourselves. The first thing we have to do is go out and buy a gun.
 
Read below:
 
 
 
Virginia School Shooting: Another Government Black-Op?
Early details suggest Columbine-style set-up to justify mass gun control, VA Tech has "blood on their hands," banned concealed carry, disarming victims

Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, April 16, 2007
 

Early details about the horrific school shooting at Virginia Tech strongly indicate that these events represent a Columbine-style black-op that will be exploited in the coming days to push for mass gun control and further turning our schools into prisons.

Eyewitness Matt Kazee told the Alex Jones Show that it was a full two to three hours after the shootings began that loudspeakers installed around the campus were used to warn students to stay indoors and that a shooter was on the loose.

Quite how the killer was afforded so much time before any action was taken to stop him is baffling, especially considering the fact that the campus, according to Kazee, was crawling with police before the event happened due to numerous bomb threats that had been phoned in last week.

The shootings came three days after a bomb threat Friday forced the cancellation of classes in three buildings, WDBJ in Roanoke reported. Also, the 100,000-square-foot Torgersen Hall was evacuated April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, The Roanoke Times reported.

CNN quoted a student who was outraged at the delay in identifying and stopping the killer.

"What happened today this was ridiculous. And I don't know what happened or what was going through this guy's mind," student Jason Piatt told CNN. "But I'm pretty outraged and I'll say on the record I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it — no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceling classes — they just mention that they're investigating a shooting two hours later at 9:22."

He added: "That's pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they're sending out that e-mail, 22 more people got killed."

The details that are beginning to emerge fill the criteria that this could very well be another government black-op that will be used as justification for more gun control and turing our schools into prisons, festooned with armed guards, surveillance cameras and biometric scanning to gain entry.

Ironic therefore it is that Virginia is a concealed carry state and yet Virginia Tech campus recently enforced a policy prohibiting "unauthorized possession, storage or control" of firearms on campus. According to gun rights activists such as Aaron Zelman of Jews For The Preservation of Firearms, VA Tech has "blood on its hands" for disarming the victims who could potentially have defended themselves against the killer.

Initial reports suggested there were two shooters, but the story quickly changed to just one shooter who later killed himself (as happens in almost all these cases) or was shot by police.

Eyewitness accounts describe police hiding behind trees and failing to pursue the killer, while ordering the school to be placed on lockdown so nobody could escape the carnage as the killer picked off his targets with seemingly little interruption from the police.

At the moment, the official death toll is 30, but could rise, making this the deadliest school shooting in history.

If these figures are accurate, the casualty figures surpass those of the school shooting at Columbine in 1999 when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.

It is well documented that disturbing questions remain over the incident at Columbine. It is clear that authorities had prior knowledge of what was going to happen. Observers were in the area hours before the shooting took place. Articles from the Associated Press stated that ballistics from Columbine show that six of the thirteen victims were possibly shot and killed by Jefferson County SWAT.

In addition, it was never properly explained how Klebold and Harris were able to transport over 100 bombs into the school before the shootings began.

In the aftermath of Columbine there were calls for vastly increased gun control laws, more than 15 state legislatures passed significant gun control bills or dropped NRA-supported bills.

In 1996 a similar incident occurred in Dunblane in Scotland where sixteen children and one adult were killed. The resulting inquiry recommended tighter control of handgun ownership, public feeling had turned against private gun ownership, allowing a much more restrictive ban on handguns to pass.