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...shots that rang out over Virginia Tech’s campus on Monday morning will continue to reverberate across the entire country for a long time to come. At colleges and universities, the magnitude and nature of the massacre at Tech has struck a particularly raw nerve. Here at Harvard we know the pain of losing one of our own; we cannot begin to imagine the devastation of losing 33 all at once. More horrifying than simply the heartbreaking loss of life is the sense of violation that comes with this type of unconscionable act. Much like the 1999 Columbine...
...neighbor of the Chos, retired stockbroker Marshall Main, told TIME that six police cars pulled up to their house Monday night and spent 90 minutes inside. Main says he didn't see police remove anything...
...Tuesday morning the Virginia Tech police chief, Wendell Flinchum, held out the possibility that a second shooter might have been involved. He said authorities could not definitively say that Cho killed a man and a woman in a dorm earlier Monday morning in addition to the 30 slaughtered in a classroom building called Norris Hall. But Cho's fingerprints were found on a gun used in both buildings...
...President Bush and the First Lady attended a convocation in memory of the lost that was remarkably lively. Those in attendance gave university president Charles Steger an extended round of applause; Steger has come under fire for the university's decision not to do more to warn students early Monday that two students had been killed. Bush kept his remarks brief: "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said of the dead...
...Several other questions remain unanswered. At one point, the two hour gap between two fatal incidents on Monday led to theorizing that more than one gunman may be involved. The gunman who shot and killed at least 30 people at Norris Hall shortly after 9 a.m. was described by some sources as an Asian man. He apparently killed himself at the end of the rampage, shooting off half of his face and thus preventing law enforcement officers from making an immediate identification. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 24-year old student from China is person of interest...