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| Salute Cadet La Porte |
| 2011-03-25 |
| (HT Project White Horse) In the early morning of Monday, 16 April 2007, 23-year old Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho entered a dormitory room and killed two students. Sometime later he then entered the Norris Hall engineering building and began to systematically attack five classrooms on the second floor, ultimately killing 30 students and professors and wounding or causing injury of an additional two dozen. As police officers approached classroom 211, Cho took his own life. Around 9:52 the police entry teams move up the stairways shouting "Police, Police!" Cho has returned to room 211 where he had previously attacked and killed several students. There is about a half minute of silence with no shots fired by Cho, then a final two shots, the last being the one turned on himself. Evidence indicates that the next to last shot would have been into Cadet La Porte who would have been dead for some time from the previous attack to the classroom. From evidentiary photographs and from statements from the Archangel team and other investigators The body position and the wounds of Matt La Porte indicate that he had maneuvered around the room from his desk in the rear right of the classroom and attempted to attack Cho across the front of the classroom. Attired in his uniform, he fell just short of the door, lying next to the blackboard facing where Cho would have been standing while shooting. Matt's arms were outstretched in a classic football tackling position. He had eight bullet entry wounds – fingers, thumb, arms and shoulders and to the front of his head – that could only have been sustained while moving forward on the shooter in the very position he fell. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #2 Gun free zones actually do make the perfect killing zone. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-25 16:53 |
| #1 Lucky he didn't have a gun. Somebody might have been hurt. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2011-03-25 14:16 |