He or she wasn't one of us-Virginia Tech students killer

Cho Seung-Hui

He was not one of us.

The gunman responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech University, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, was an Asian male student who lived in a campus dormitory, President Charles Steger said today.

The violence will be blamed on outsiders, foreigners let into this country. Not us, we are uncapable of doing such a thing.

But Field Negro corrects us when he writes about young lives lost in his community, blood everywhere from killings. And we can only say one more body , without action. Where is the outrage? Who said it was okay to have this nihilistic view? Derrick Bell? Death and Killing. Locked up and throw away the key, made me safe in my community? Who said so? Who Eddie writes about unanswered rage and it toil on the human psyche. Dr. Spence reminds how we decide to rally behind those in our community when injured. Bronze Trinity provides us a petition within even the Afrosphear to check ourselves. This is a mission of action.

And that is what Temple 3, tells us. We have got to come out of our goo goo ga ga mode of action. T3 provides us with what we need most in our communities, solutions. Temple writes about succession planning. "D" spot headed toward the brick and mortar that Dr. Spence speaks about, a school of children. Children get ready, he's on his way. Afrosphear, where is our plan for succession? Our youth and not so young are waiting on us to get up and to pass on solutions to this madness living in the United States of America. Conference calls can be made, we need solutions. Katrina has taught us that they are not coming. And we do know who they are, or do we?

I don't want to hear not one more time it was not one of us.

Derek O'Dell, who was shot in the arm, said there was an ``eerie silence'' when the gunman entered his class in Norris Hall. The man wore a black leather jacket with ammunition sleeves inside, jeans

and a maroon hat, the student said.

``He was very methodical. He seemed trained to kill,'' O'Dell said during a broadcast interview. ``He had no anger in him at all; he was very calm -- just determined to kill everybody.

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Cho was one of us. Rest in Peace..all lives lost in violence. I've updated from 9:30 A.M.

Students killed at Virginia Tech

How can this be? Great sadness for families and their friends.

Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Collegiate
Time newspaper coverage.
From Virginia Tech website: Two shootings on campus today have left 22 confirmed dead. Update the confirmed dead at 2:00 are 28.

Families wishing to reunite with students are suggested to meet at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The university is planning a convocation for tomorrow at noon at Cassell Coliseum for the university community to come together to begin to deal with the tragedy.

Counseling is available in the Bowman Room in the Merriman Center (part of the athletic complex) for employees who seek assistance following today’s events.

All faculty and staff have been released and asked to go home effective immediately.

The university will open tomorrow at 8 a.m. but classes are cancelled.

Cnn video

Bonnie blog of crime

The Leaf Chronicle


At least 17 individuals are wounded.

President George Bush speaks on the right to bear arms.

The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," Perino said, noting that Bush and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings held a conference on school gun violence last October. "Certainly, bringing a gun into a school domitory and shooting ... is against the law and something someone should be held accountable for," Perino said.

More on the shooting at law hawk.

Former student blogs about shooting.

Paula Mooney more on video shooting.