Shooting at Virginia Tech displays Police flaws
On Monday, April 16th, at 7:15 AM EST, the police of the police of University Police received a report of a shooting West Ambler Johnston Hall, a Virginia Tech dormitory that 900 students call home. Then another shooting was reported at the science and engineering school, Norris Hall. In two hours, the police were alerted to the fact that the worst school shooting in all of American history had taken place in the halls of Virginia Tech. Thirty-two dead and fifteen wounded.
The police are still investigating if the shootings were related. If they weren’t, then I think we’re all in a CSI script, because that’s an unbelievable twist.
When you’ve had two shootings in two areas on campus, that should send up red flags. This tragedy could have been easily avoided if the police had had the competency to shut down the school and evacuate. When you have two crime scenes and no apprehension, that means you have a moving gunman, and that is a major problem. It took two hours for the gunman to get to the main hall, and that could have been two hours spent getting everyone out of the area.
“We knew that there was a shooting but we thought it was confined to a particular setting,” Charles Steger, the University’s President said. That is never a safe assumption.
Everyone say a prayer for the lives lost in Virginia.
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