Virginia Tech waited 2 hours before notifying campus of initial shootings

Accord­ing to the Asso­ci­ated Press, Vir­ginia Tech offi­cials did not make an announce­ment about the ini­tial set of shoot­ings today until two hours after the attack. offi­cials assumed the shooter had already fled campus.

We now know the shooter went to a class­room build­ing across cam­pus and killed over 30 people.

Stu­dents are com­plain­ing that the first announce­ment was late, and that it was deliv­ered by email instead of the pub­lic address sys­tem in cam­pus buildings.

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9:45 am: Vir­ginia Tech shoot­ings high­light the need for cam­pus emer­gency noti­fi­ca­tion system

April 11: Uni­ver­sity of Florida and Mobile Campus

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