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The university and its police has been criticized for taking 3 hours to notify students and faculties of the presence of a shooter. | The university and its police has been criticized for taking 3 hours to notify students and faculties of the presence of a shooter. | ||
| − | On April 19, police | + | On April 19, police arrested a potential copycat, Terrence Johnson, Jr., a senior at Madison School, who threatened to commit a similar crime.<ref>http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6390160</ref> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 00:20, August 5, 2008
On April 16, 2007, a 23-year-old Korean man studying English at Virginia Tech went on a murder spree that took the lives of 32 faculty and students. The perpetrator then turned the gun on himself. Amongst the victims is a 76-year old Holocaust survivor.
The university and its police has been criticized for taking 3 hours to notify students and faculties of the presence of a shooter.
On April 19, police arrested a potential copycat, Terrence Johnson, Jr., a senior at Madison School, who threatened to commit a similar crime.[1]