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[Neverfade]

Not a lot of details but I'm across the street. Cops everywhere. Some guy pulled a gun at New River Community college in the mall.

Edit: Mods, can you alter the title to say Christiansburg? I attempted this earlier but it doesn't look like it's reflecting the change. Typed it up in somewhat of a panic.

Several hours later, and the only victims that are being reported are two females, one which is stable at the local hospital, the other airlifted to Roanoke, VA I believe. No word on her condition that I've seen.

 

[Takamura-San]

Hope for no casualties.

 

[outunderthestars]

Damnit.

 

[Hawkian]

Crossing my fingers. Keep us posted, the news has nothing on this yet.

Blacksburg doesn't need any more victims :-/

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

NRCC isnt in blacksburg, is it?

 

[Liha]

I hope nobody gets hurt...

 

[tycoonheart]

NRCC isnt in blacksburg, is it?

Its actually not.

OP change the title please.

 

[Hawkian]

Apparently Dublin, VA not Blacksburg. Still no news. Hopefully means no one was shot.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Police saying an area is secure in radio.. Still going on.. Everything might not be secure tho

 

[CrankyJay]

nvm

 

[Neverfade]

Title changed, still kind of in a panic as I'm right across the street. Sorry about that.

 

[Manus]

Wow, I live like 5 minutes from there. Currently living in Radford. Hope everyone is okay.

 

[Polari]

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I agree with gun control, but a) that comic sucks, b) it seems crass to post it while reports of a shooting are emerging.

 

[Maninthemirror]

They are launching lifeguard 11 (must be a helicopter) . They are not sure how many victims

 

[Liha]

I agree with gun control, but a) that comic sucks, b) it seems crass to post it while reports of a shooting are emerging.

You're right, I've removed it.

I wanted to mean that you can overdo anything.

 

[saltinekracka]

Not a lot of details but I'm across the street. Cops everywhere. Some guy pulled a gun at New River Community college in the mall.

The college is in a mall? I must be misunderstanding...

 

[Manus]

Ohhh, okay. NRCC has two campuses here. The main campus and they have a small section for NRCC at the New River Valley Mall in Christiansburg, VA.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

I really hope no one was harmed.

nvm

Never does. Why worry about who could be injured when you can make political points.

 

[Neverfade]

The college is in a mall? I must be misunderstanding...

It's a small offshoot of the actual campus. Just several classrooms. The actual campus (in Dublin, VA) is kind of a long drive for students living, for example, in Blacksburg. The mall is much closer.

 

[chickdigger802]

stay away from the windows... or from that side of the building. Stray bullets are fickle.

 

[perfectchaos007]

So it could be a mall shooting or a school shooting depending on where the suspect fired. Hope there are no casualties.

 

[threetri333]

Why can't we all get along?

 

[Neverfade]

So it could be a mall shooting or a school shooting depending on where the suspect fired. Hope there are no casualties.

Kids were running in here from that direction. They said it was in a classroom, but obviously I can't fully verify that.

 

[Escape Goat]

Noun
A large building or series of connected buildings containing a variety of retail stores.
A sheltered walk or promenade.

The green area in DC by the Washington Monument is called the mall. Not exactly the important point of the OP but there we go. Hope this isn't another mass shooting.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Police radio is talking about specific shops which are found at a mall, no mention of school

 

[Neverfade]

Police radio is talking about specific shops which are found at a mall, no mention of school

Just spoke with two girls . They said they were in the NRVCC hallway when a guy came Bolting out of a classroom. They heard at least three shots.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Just spoke with two girls . They said they were in the NRVCC hallway when a guy came Bolting out of a classroom. They heard at least three shots.

Just a mention of 'the campus' . Is the mall in front of the school?

 

[Az]

Hope everyone is okay.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Police got a call from a mother about her son *cant give address due to privacy* the controller said it might be related to this incident. This is on the radio frequency app for the area btw

 

[Neverfade]

Just a mention of 'the campus' . Is the mall in front of the school?

The school is inside a shopping mall. It's not a full campus. It's a small subsection of classrooms.

 

[Neverfade]

Another tidbit that makes the event all the more disgusting:

Gunman announced shooting on 4chan.

 

[jchap]

Dressed up as Joker on his facebook page with the Dark Knight in his favorite movies list... that movie attracts the crazies!

New federal law: No one who self identifies with the Joker can buy guns.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Another tidbit that makes the event all the more disgusting:

Gunman announced shooting on 4chan.

fuck

 

[Neverfade]

Dressed up as Joker on his facebook page with the Dark Knight in his favorite movies list... that movie attracts the crazies!

New federal law: No one who self identifies with the Joker can buy guns.

I just googled that. That guy lives in Atlanta or something. That's not the guy. The 4chan link picture has a link to his NRCC page with a picture.

 

[Tomat]

Another tidbit that makes the event all the more disgusting:

Gunman announced shooting on 4chan.

Wouldn't be the first time something like this is happened. /b/ is a fucking disgusting board. Pretty sure this kind of stuff usually gets reported to the police either by the 4chan administration or the user's themselves.

 

[UberTag]

Blacksburg, VA? Why would I want to live there?

Good to know would-be gunmen have joined game publishers on the announcement of an announcement bandwagon.
Unfortunate for this to occur but at least there were no fatalities.

 

[BY2K]

Blacksburg, VA? Why would I want to live there?

C'mon, man.

 

[Neverfade]

Wouldn't be the first time something like this is happened. /b/ is a fucking disgusting board. Pretty sure this kind of stuff usually gets reported to the police either by the 4chan administration or the user's themselves.

I doubt it would have helped. That time stamp is literally a couple minutes before people started running across the street towards us. He had to type it up if not inside the actual school then, at the furthest, in the parking lot.

 

[Tomat]

I doubt it would have helped. That time stamp is literally a couple minutes before people started running across the street towards us. He had to type it up if not inside the actual school, then in the parking lot.

It wouldn't if that was posted minutes before : /

I don't know why I'm defending 4chan at all though.

 

[manfestival]

Another tidbit that makes the event all the more disgusting:

Gunman announced shooting on 4chan.

always disappointing to read this sort of stuff

 

[Toparaman]

Another tidbit that makes the event all the more disgusting:

Gunman announced shooting on 4chan.

Glad he failed. Sounds like no one was killed. Unless his intention was just to injure those two women.

Here's the gunman's website, if you missed it:
www.nrccstudents.org/macinnisn/

EDIT: Christ, this guy sounds more normal than I do. Why'd he snap?