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"VT found out around 7:30am that he had killed two people and was close to campus. Within a couple of hours, they warned, evacuated and/or locked down various parts of the campus, then closed the entire campus and canceled the first day of classes. "
a) By your own account, it took a few hours (more time than it took the shooter to kill the thirty more people he killed), and b)in that case, they knew who they were looking for and the person they were looking for was not a student c) I know someone who works at Virginia Tech, as a professor, and she says that it took several hours for most people to know what was going on, and d) the entire campus wasn't closed--according to the police at the time, "We did close the campus and asked people to stay in dorms and academic areas," campus Police Lt. Vincent Houston told The Associated Press.
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