World News (ABC) - 2007-04-17 - Virginia Tech massacre
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[0:01] Welcome [music] to a special hour-long
[0:03] edition of World News Tonight from the
[0:05] campus of Virginia Tech, where this
[0:08] community has united to share the pain
[0:11] from the deadliest shooting spree in
[0:13] [music] US history.
[0:14] >> What has happened to these beloved
[0:16] members of our family has brought us
[0:20] even closer together in our [music]
[0:23] shared grief and our disbelief.
[0:27] A killer [music] revealed. Authorities
[0:29] say he was a student who began arming
[0:31] himself a month ago. [music]
[0:33] Tonight, the disturbed writings that
[0:35] reveal a troubled soul. Were they signs
[0:37] of the bloodshed to come? The memorials
[0:40] revealing the true character [music] of
[0:41] those who were lost. The students,
[0:43] teachers, and heroes who touched so many
[0:45] lives before theirs were suddenly cut
[0:48] short. Tonight, [music] campus tragedy.
[0:51] Massacre at Virginia Tech. [music]
[0:57] From ABC News, this is World News with
[1:01] Charles [music] Gibson, reporting
[1:03] tonight from Blackburg, Virginia.
[1:07] And good evening from the campus of
[1:09] Virginia Tech, where tonight students,
[1:11] parents, and authorities are trying to
[1:13] make sense of what is ultimately an
[1:15] incomprehensible act, the cold-blooded
[1:18] murder of 32 people. And now the people
[1:20] here know it was done by one of their
[1:23] own. Today we learned the gunman was a
[1:26] 23-year-old undergraduate named Sun-ho,
[1:29] originally from South Korea. Authorities
[1:31] are getting some insight into his state
[1:33] of mind after discovering a disturbing,
[1:35] almost deranged note that he wrote
[1:37] yesterday and other older writings that
[1:40] he left behind. For the families and
[1:42] friends,