Transcript in the news of
April 17, 2007 (With some misspelled words)
Tonight thousands gathered to
mourn the 32 victims of the
united states' worst mass
shooting.
>> Those who lives were taken
did nothing to deserve their
fate.
They were simply in the wrong
place at the wrong timE.
>> The killer revealed, cho
seung-hui left a note and wrote
you caused me to do this.
>> On the campus of virginia
tech, this is bbc worlD.
>> In london, also in our
programme, the mayor of -- is
shot dead while campaigninG.
>> Climate
>> In blacksburg virginia,
police revealed the identity of
the gunman who killed 32
students here.
He was a 23-year-old south
korea who had lived here all
his life.
They found a disturbing note
and a $500 reset for a handguN.
Here is a look back at today's
developments.
>>> How do you measure the
scale one way, the long lines
of students trying to attend
the commemoration of something
that some of them will never
forget.
The campus nurses, medical
staff, and the heavily armed
S.W.A.T. Teams, reassuring
today, perhaps, but yesterday
unable to stop the carnage.
What must they all be thinking?
Normally this place resonates
with the sounds of cheers for
the university football team,
but this is a rather different
occasion.
This is just the overflow area,
the memorial service taking
place down the road in the
basketball stadiuM.
Thousands of studentsthought
could actually happen.
George bush was here, too, a
timely responsis is
expected t's chie ofgrginia tech commit s s
our entire nation.
We have come to express our
sympathy.
>> In a nearby hall where the
campus has been turned into a
camp for the world's media,
some of the most pressing
questions were being answered.
First and foremost, the
identity of the gunman.
>> That person is cho
seung-hui.
He wasy alieN.
>> The hall where 31 innocentere gime scene. Escape, and an inkling
from a suicide note why he did
it.
An english student and loner --
the victims of the monday
morning massacre, wereselection of a community of
learning.
20-year-old ross alameddine
gunned down on his way to a
french class.
Mary reed, a virginia local,
just 19 years olD.
Professor liviu librescu, he
survived the holocaust, but not
this.
He saved the lives of students
by blocking the doorway of his
classroom.
Granata, one of e
bishop, a foreign language
tly s
front of his students.
Here is what we know about how
yesterday's events unfolded.
At 7:15, police werethmbler johnston hall.
Three two students, ryan clark
and emily hilscher had been
shot did.Er
sent an email olice were called to
norris hall.
There, 31 people lay dead.
As officers arrived at 9:55,
the firing stoppeD.
The gunman had killed himself
with the last shot. Ten ev,edto theI yet che hadorward toned ohe r
crying when i realized that it
wasn't a nightmare, that it was
actual reality.
>> The student cadets are in
full dress uniform, the sound
of silence honours the dead,
and in the hills of virginia, a
place of learning has been
forced to confront actions that
defy understanding.
Bbc news, blacksburg, virginia.
>> Speaking just a few minutes
ago, the governor of virginia
described the killings as a
horrible tragedY.
.
>> This is the darkest day in a
wonderful history of virginia
tech.
This is a strong community,
that is obvious in the
reactions of students even
during the very difficult
events of yesterdaY.
I pledge every effort of the
state in the days to come to
cysting this
assisting the university in the
healing process, to assisting
the family members, as well as
students and people in the
community who new
a loan loneR.
Officials are asking what
prompted him to commit violence
on such a devastating scalE.
A portrait of a killer. The
teenage, this was home, centre
vil virginia, a town house,
today, E.
Cho graduated from west field
high school.
The korean community here is in
shock
tt
by himselF.
>> Cho seung-hui came to
america when he was 8 years
old.
For his parents ending up in a
h be
y
it is only half hour outside of
washington.
>> On the street today we heard
about a closed-in young maN.
What neighbour said he would
not respond if someone greeted
him, but most struggled to
understanD.
>> This is a very quiet
neighborhood, a well integrated
neighborhood, allin something that we
have never thought would have
happened here.
>> Whatever drove cho seung-hui
to kill is not an isolated
case.
In the past ten years, there
have been 19 multiple shootings
on campuses and at high
schools.
>> Young people are much more
sensitive, if somebody crosses
them, if they feel an
injustice, they don't take it.
They retaliatE.
We have a lot ofi and gsre combinatioN.
>> And for the disturbed, guns
are always at hand.
Larry sells pistols likhohis home. N aheo
card a with a
handgun.
Bbc news, virginia.
>> I'm joined here at virginia
tech by a freshman student on
the university.
Thanks for joining us.
It seems almost impossible that
it was only a day ago that this
terrible event happened.
>> Yes.
I woke up, i was alone in my
apartment.
I was upset about it.
I have been hanging out with my
friends basically, and it has
been a long, depressing few
days, but i am just going to
hang out with my friendS. Hh a student lounge, that's all
we knew, and for a while i was w wo
i havespoken today seem almos t now its but>>Mevents?
>> I am not even leaving right
now.
I am staying here for the whole
week.
I feel fine here, as long andbe much the location
that bothers me, it is just
what happened, and, you know,
who I am with right now is all
that matters.
>> This was a huge memorial
service a few hours agO.
You tried to go.
>> I tried to go.
It was exciting, it was
bringing everybody together.
It was amazing, because we
needed that to structure
ve at least somewhat, it
was in the presence of
everybody going there, the
president, governor, not so
much what they said, but just
being there, feeling a
togetherness, a whole after allhetressed they had
to be carried ouT.
It is affecting the whole
community.
>> Everyone is affected by
that, illthng umair
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seuniversities.Aynn jacksonville or penalizes honest citizens
instead of criminalS.
When so many movies and --
>> One from washington D.C.
With the other point of view on
the gun control depaT.
The U.S. Needs stringent gun
control.
It is not violence in movies,
butouching the people of the
united states.
There is going to be a broader
debate now about the issue of
gun controL.
After an event of this
magnitude, after so many people
have been killed on this
campus, there will be more of a
discussion about the gun
control.
Please keep your emails coming
to us.
We do want those emails to come
to us.
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