Matt Frei reports from the scene of the US campus killings, listens to the survivors and concludes that the only question worth asking is: where next?
Blacksburg, Virginia
The last school shooting I covered also happened in the morning. It was October 2006 and a middle-aged milkman finished his night shift, got a few hours’ sleep, kissed his wife and children and then walked into an Amish village school half a mile away in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was a glorious late summer day. Armed with ropes, rubber gloves and gaffer tape, he let the boys go and tied the girls together. He then shot ten of them execution-style. Five died.
On Monday this week, Cho Seung-hui began his killing spree at Virginia Tech at 7.15 in the morning. He had legally purchased the 9mm Glock pistol on 13 March from Roanoke Firearms, 30 miles from the university campus.
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