The Virginia Tech Massacre: News Update

Below I've gathered more recent news releases on the recent tragedy at VPI, both from major news sources and from the university's own website. I want to take this moment not only to again extend our thoughts and prayers to the people of Virginia Tech and Blacksburg and to the families of the victims, but to thank the university, the staff of The Collegiate Times, and the staffs of all the region's professional news organizations for your hard work. You're professionalism and your elegant balance of necessary fact and personal images and words have been a pleasant contrast to some (though by no means all) of the national coverage, the aim of which seems to be merely to squeeze the surviving victims - I personally have stopped watching the national news, for the time being, taking up the internet as the source of my information - because unnecessary repetition and fear-mongering do nothing for my sleep. Regardless, if you any of you have information, stories, thoughts, or images you want to share with the world, please let us know - we're trying to collect whatever we can here, at least for the next several days.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

• Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial Website
• Tragedy at Virginia Tech Website
• Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund
• April 17th Convocation Webcast (hosted by hokiesports.com)
  

Tragedy in Blacksburg
Collective Site of the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
The News & Advance, WSLS, and the Bristol Herald Courier

The Bluefield Daily Telegraph

• "Students, community struggle with senselessness of slayings"
• "Students, parents overtaken by horror"

Bristol Herald Courier
(All coverage, collected)

Collegiate Times

• "Horrific Details Surrounding Massacre Trickle Out"
• "List of confirmed deceased"
• "Hospitals Handle Surge"
• "Facebook Reactions"
• "Governor Tim Kaine reacts to crisis"
• "Students respond to shooting"
• "Firsthand account"
• "Downtown remains supportive in face of tragedy"
  
• Video: Student Reactions
• Video: "Campus Crisis"
• Gallery: Photos of the Tragedy

CNN

• Warrent: What police found in Cho's room
• "Police: Cho taken to mental health center in 2005"
• "In morbid plays, Cho's characters dreamed of killing"
• "Promising, extraordinary lives cut short"
• "Friends, family recall lives of self students, teachers"
• "Virginia Tech killer a self-described 'question mark'"
• Galleries
  

New York Times

• "A Black Day in the Blue Ridge"

The News & Advance

• "Police: gunman had been accused of stalking 2 females"
• Slideshow: "Healing and remembering"
• "Convocation offered hopes of healing from Bush, Kaine"
• "'Resilient' community unites in Blacksburg"
• "N&A Gillis: 'I'm a Hokie'"
• "Tragic day will live in memory"
• Photo Gallery
  

New York Times

• "Complaints About Gunman Were Reported in 2005"
• "The Victims"
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (collected coverage)
  

NPR

• "Shooting Response Troubles Virginia Governor"
• Slideshow
• "Friends Pay Tribute to Those Lost"
• "Shootings Prompt Examination of Campus Security"
• "Cho's Behavior Troubled Those Who Knew Him"
• "FBI Listens to Understand Shooter's Motive"
• "Students and Teachers Fell to Cho's Gunfire"
• "Virginia Tech Paper Rises to Challenge"
• "Virginia Tech Shootings May Revive Gun-Control Debate"
• "Remembering Virginia Tech's Shooting Victims"
• "Timeline: How the Virginia Tech Shootings Unfolded"
• "Shootings Leave VT Community Seeking Solace"
• "Online Communities Focus on Student Shooting"
• "Community Still Reels From Va. Tech Shootings"
• "Bush Leads Prayers at Virginia Tech"
• "Mood Remains Somber at Virginia Tech"
• "FBI Aiding Police in Sorting Va. Tech Evidence"
• "Gunman Left Note; Past Writings Described as 'Troubling'"
• "In Blacksburg, Community Tries to Heal"
• "Students Share Virginia Tech Grief Online"
• "Virginia Tech Students Grapple With Losses"
• "News of First Virginia Tech Attack Spread Slowly"
• "'I Counted 24 Gunshots Within a Minute'"
• "A Day of Chaos for Virginia Tech Students"
• "Students, Town Reeling After VT Shootings"
• "Reflections on Columbine and Blacksburg"
• "Va. Tech Students Go to Web for Info"

Richmond Times-Dispatch

• "Amid grief, campus begins to heal"
• "At Tech vigil, a vow that, 'we will recover'"
• "Higher Education: State's colleges offer sympathies"
• Slideshow: Convocation at Lane Stadium
• Slideshow: Vigils in Blacksburg and Richmond
• Slideshow: UVA Vigil for Virginia Tech
• "Coming Face to Face With Death"
• "After escape, new perspective"
• "Detained Asian student understands police action"
• "The sympathy of strangers"
• "Fairfax County Reaction: For Koreans, shock, and dismay"
• "Saving His Own Life: Student becomes a symbol of survival"
• "Spotlight on Gun Control: Focus on Virginia's gun laws"
• "A media star - for a moment"
• "The killer: who was he"
• "Vignettes from near and far"
• "The Weapons: killer bought handgun, ammo last month"
• "Tech cancels spring game"
• "US Senate resolution"
• "Victims are heros, loved ones"
  

The Roanoke Times
(All coverage, collected)

USATODAY

• "Female students reported gunman for stalking"
• "'Signs were there,' shooter's classmates say"
• "S.Koreans fear prejudice with shooting link"
• "Professor who 'did not fear death' likely saved students"
• "Names of some of the victims of shootings at Virginia Tech"
• "Students stunned by school's response"
• "Virginia Tech gunman was hospitalized, no contact with police since late '05"
• "Virginia Tech: What prompted two-hour delay?"

WDBJ

• "Twenty-three-year-old student identified as campus gunman"
• "Ohio college students mourn dead at Virginia Tech"
• "Friends remember Blacksburg victim"
• "Gun shop owner wasn't suspicious of shooter"
• "Former Roanoke High School student among the dead"
• "Narrows community remembers Virginia Tech student"
• Victim Photo Memorial
  

WSLS

• "Tuesday Night's Vigil"
• "Local Family Mourns"
• "Thousands Gather at Vigil"
• Memorials and Services