BLACKSBURG, Va. - Police and university authorities faced pressure Tuesday to explain how a gunman apparently evaded detection after killing two people and then went on to kill 30 others two hours later in America’s worst shooting rampage.
The bloodbath ended Monday with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.
Virginia Tech’s president said the gunman was a student at the university in at least the second of the two attacks.
“We do know that he was an Asian male — this is the second incident — an Asian man who was a resident in one of our dormitories,” university president Charles Steger said in an interview with CNN, confirming for the first time that the killer was a student.
Though he did not explicitly say the student was also the gunman in the first shooting, he said he did not believe there was another shooter.
Local authorities have scheduled a media briefing for 9 a.m. Tuesday
The bloodbath ended Monday with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.
Virginia Tech’s president said the gunman was a student at the university in at least the second of the two attacks.
“We do know that he was an Asian male — this is the second incident — an Asian man who was a resident in one of our dormitories,” university president Charles Steger said in an interview with CNN, confirming for the first time that the killer was a student.
Though he did not explicitly say the student was also the gunman in the first shooting, he said he did not believe there was another shooter.
Local authorities have scheduled a media briefing for 9 a.m. Tuesday
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