The Washington Post reports:Thirty-two people reportedly were killed and more than two dozen injured during a shooting rampage this morning at Virginia Tech, making it the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, law enforcement sources said this afternoon.
Injured occupants are carried out of the Norris Hall dormitory at Va. Tech. (AP)
The unidentified shooter was among the dead, according to officials, at West Ambler Johnston, a dormitory, and Norris Hall, which houses the College of Engineering. Authorities said the first shooting was reported shortly after 7 a.m. at the dorm and the second about two hours later at Norris Hall. Law enforcement sources said a single shooter was responsible for both incidents.
Reports throughout the day from the Roanoke Times.
James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston said the death toll — which now stands at 31 — surpasses the 22 people killed in 1991 when a gunman with a high-powered pistol opened fire on a lunchtime crowd at a cafeteria in Killenn, Texas.
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The highlights of the 7:30pm ET press briefing are:
* Virginia Tech Campus Police Chief Wendell Flinchum has preliminary ID of gunman, but are not releasing the name.
* Recovered two weapons, but won't release the details
* ATF is comparing ballistics from West AJ and Norris Hall
* Person of interest ID'd after shooting at West Ambler Johnston. That person is not in custody. He is not known to police, according to Chief Flinchum.
* The first "person of interest" is still a person of interest -- "because he knows one of the victims" found dead in the dorm room.
* The "person of interest" is NOT a VT student
* The gunman found dead in Norris Hall is NOT the "person of interest" questioned in the West AJ dorm shooting.
* Murder /suicide has been ruled out at the incident in the dorm
* Chief Flinchum states that the Blacksburg Police Dept. located the "person of interest" in the dorm shooting -- and conducted an interview with him about the same time as the shootings were taking place in Norris Hall
* From the above statements, we can conclude that the police think that the shootings in West AJ are NOT related to the shootings in Norris Hall
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