BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Police and university officials faced pressure on Tuesday to explain how a gunman evaded detection between killing two people and going on to kill 30 others two hours later in America's worst shooting rampage.
The man killed himself in a classroom at Virginia Tech university after opening fire on students and staff in an apparently premeditated massacre on Monday morning.
The gunman was an Asian male who was a student at the university and a dormitory resident, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger told CNN. His name was not released.
Television images of terrified students and police dragging out bloody victims revived memories of the infamous Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and were likely to renew heated debate about America's gun laws.
Police said the gunman appeared to have used chains to lock doors and prevent victims from escaping. Fifteen people were wounded, including those shot and students hurt jumping from windows in a desperate attempt to flee the gunfire.
"This man was brutal," Dr. Joseph Cacioppo, an emergency room physician who treated the wounded, told CNN. "There wasn't a shooting victim that didn't have less than three bullet wounds in them."
Many students expressed anger that they were not warned of any danger until more than two hours after the first attack at a dormitory -- and then only in an e-mail from the university
The man killed himself in a classroom at Virginia Tech university after opening fire on students and staff in an apparently premeditated massacre on Monday morning.
The gunman was an Asian male who was a student at the university and a dormitory resident, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger told CNN. His name was not released.
Television images of terrified students and police dragging out bloody victims revived memories of the infamous Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and were likely to renew heated debate about America's gun laws.
Police said the gunman appeared to have used chains to lock doors and prevent victims from escaping. Fifteen people were wounded, including those shot and students hurt jumping from windows in a desperate attempt to flee the gunfire.
"This man was brutal," Dr. Joseph Cacioppo, an emergency room physician who treated the wounded, told CNN. "There wasn't a shooting victim that didn't have less than three bullet wounds in them."
Many students expressed anger that they were not warned of any danger until more than two hours after the first attack at a dormitory -- and then only in an e-mail from the university
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