World News (ABC) - 2007-04-16 - Virginia Tech massacre
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[0:04] The sound of gunfire on the campus of
[0:06] Virginia Tech University. Deadly
[0:09] gunfire. Tonight, a lone gunman carries
[0:11] out the worst mass murder in US history.
[0:14] On this day, a tranquil college campus
[0:17] became a killing field.
[0:19] >> Well, today the university was struck uh
[0:22] with a tragedy that we consider of
[0:24] monumental proportions. The toll 32
[0:27] killed, many more wounded and a nation
[0:30] in shock.
[0:31] >> Schools should be places of safety and
[0:33] sanctuary in learning. When that
[0:35] sanctuary is violated,
[0:37] the impact is felt in every American
[0:40] classroom and every American community.
[0:43] New details and troubling questions.
[0:46] What triggered the murders? How did the
[0:48] gunman run loose for 2 hours? And how
[0:51] could anyone do such a thing? Tonight,
[0:54] campus tragedy, massacre at Virginia
[0:57] Tech
[1:01] >> from ABC News headquarters. This is
[1:04] World News with Charles Gibson.
[1:07] >> Good evening. It is an act of evil on a
[1:10] scale that we've never seen in this
[1:11] country before. At 7:15 this morning in
[1:14] a Virginia Tech dormatory, a lone gunman
[1:16] shot and killed two people, beginning
[1:18] what would become the deadliest shooting
[1:20] spree in US history. More than two hours
[1:23] later, undetected, he had reached an
[1:25] engineering classroom building where he
[1:27] killed 30 people more. The rampage ended
[1:30] when the gunman, still in the classroom
[1:32] building, turned one of his
[1:33] semi-automatic pistols on himself. What
[1:36] happened in those 2 and 1/2 hours was a
[1:38] nightmare of unprecedented proportion.
[1:40] 32 were killed. Including the gunman, 33
[1:43] died, and more than 25 other people were
[1:46] injured. Man