Parents of students attending Virginia Tech are furious with the President and the chief of the campus police. They are demanding the two be fired at once.
John and Jennifer Shourds of Lovettsville, Va. demanded the immediate firings of University President Charles Steger and Virginia Tech Campus Police Chief W.R. Flinchum who he said "screwed up" the handling of separate shooting incidents that left 33 students dead, including the shooter.
“My God, if someone shoots somebody there should be an immediate lockdown of the campus,” said John Shourds. “They totally blew it. The president blew it, campus police blew it.”
The Shourds said they received a phone call from their daughter, Alexandra, a freshman at the college in Blacksburg, who was unsure of how to handle a vague university e-mail received around 9:20 a.m. regarding the first shooting incident that happened at the West Ambler Johnston Hall around 7:15 a.m. Later, it was learned that a lone gunman entered that hall, two buildings away from Alexandra’s dorm, and opened fire, killing two people.
The bottom line here is that when the last incident happened at Virginia Tech, an escaped convict loose in the area, the campus was locked down. This time it was not. Email warning did not even go out about the first incident until after the second incident was already underway or finished. Someone has a lot of explaining to do here. My guess is that the lawsuits will begin rolling in very, very soon. What I wrote last night still applies. If I had a child at that school, they would be on their way home right now.
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