"But I'm pretty outraged and I'll say on the record I'm pretty outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about it — no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceling classes — they just mention that they're investigating a shooting two hours later at 9:22."

He added: "That's pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they're sending out that e-mail, 22 more people got killed."

If this is true it's inexcusable.

Yeah, sounds like. 31 people, jesus.

And I guess he went to Krispy Kreme for breakfast or something between the killings.

If this is true it's inexcusable.

If it's true, Va. Tech. is going to be up to its eyeballs in lawsuits.

According to a student on Time.com, they were locked down in their dorm at 8 a.m. The lockdown was lifted for some reason and then the guy struck a second time.

I think a 2+ hour delay of email notification is inexcusable, but I also think it's totally plausible at a college campus. I could see that happening here: bureaucracy, bad communication, early morning, people authorized to make decisions between their home and office...

I have been thinking for a couple of hours that it would be really hard to notify everybody and lock down the campus if something like that happened here at 7am. I mean, a lot of people would be asleep until 10 minutes before a 9:30 class.

The Roanoke Times has some eyewitness reports: [link]

god that's horrifying

If it's true, Va. Tech. is going to be up to its eyeballs in lawsuits.

Trying not to sound callous, but indeed, the potential liability is staggering. If this happened at a company, it would probably fold.

If it's true, Va. Tech. is going to be up to its eyeballs in lawsuits.

Trying not to sound callous, but indeed, the potential liability is staggering.

Yeah, I didn't mean to be callous -- I was just thinking, what if I had a kid there, what if I had a kid there who was killed? That 2-hour window makes it seem like the second shootings could have been avoided.