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I 33 DEAD GUNMAN KILLS 32, HIMSELF AT VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDY: deadliest shooting rampage in u.s. history MSU, LCC PLANS schools prepared for situations Women cnoose Tasnionover function with oversized handbags fa J- TV stations 30th auction to be final one WKAR ends tradition as revenues drop, costs rise Mike Hughes 4 if -N i Lansing State Journal 1 28 TREATED FOR WOUNDS IN SHOOTINGS At least four victims of the Virginia Tech shooting spree were fighting for their lives in nearby hospitals Monday after tempestuous winds prevented helicopters from airlifting them to larger trauma centers. That forced emergency workers to take victims to regional trauma centers by ground ambulance At least 28 people were treated at four facilities. Of the 17 students treated at Montgomery Regional, five had been released Monday night but three were listed as critical, said hospital CEO Scott Hill. "It was a very intense situation for a short period of time," Hill said.

"I wouldn't say we were overwhelmed. What I'd say is we certainly had a lot of patients. "I don't know that you can ever properly prepare for this level of violence," Hill added. lt---. I i A local tradition ends this month, when WKAR (Channel 23) has its final auction.

This will be the 30th auction and the last one. DeAnne Hamilton, the station manager, broke the news to staffers Monday, then phoned some of the volunteers. "Donations have been down lately," Hamilton said. "I think part of it is Michigan's economy." Still, WKAR has kept its auction going longer than most. Other public-TV stations gradually bailed out partly because their auctions were no longer unique.

"Thirty years ago, we were one of the first groups to do this," said Barbara Beers, the current auction coordinator. "Now it seems like pretty much every organization has an auction." That includes local auctions. "The poor merchant keeps getting hit up for things," Hamilton said. It also includes goods being sold on TV see Auction Page 5A ALAN KIMAssociated Press Wounded in shooting: An unidentified person is carried out of Norris Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech on Monday after a gunman opened fire in Blacksburg, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in modem U.S. history.

Virginia Tech shootings Where the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in rural Blacksburg, claimed SPEED READ SEE MORE ATLSJ.COM 33 lives, including the gunman: Monday, April 16 About 7:15 a.m.ET West Ambler Johnston co-ed dormitory, houses 895 students At least two killed Sr. nriiifioiH A Tax filing deadline is midnight Don't forget the tax filing deadline is upon us at midnight tonight. So far, the IRS said, 61 million returns had been filed electronically, up 6.2 percent from last year. Of those, 44 million came from tax professionals and 17 million from people using software on their home computers. About 9:15 a.m.

ET Norris Hall engineering building At least 31 people killed, including shooter 3 75knt Pa. Police say killer turns gun on self; motive for massacre still unknown Sue Lindsey Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students. The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.

Investigators gave no motive for the attack. The gunman's name was not immediately released, and it was not known if he was a student. "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified." But he was also faced with difficult questions about the university's handling of the emergency and whether it did enough to warn students and protect them after the first burst of gunfire. Some students bitterly complained they got no warning from the university until an e-mail that arrived more than two hours after the first shots rang out.

Wielding two handguns and carrying multiple 75 miles Photo Gallery Go online to see more photos of the Virginia Tech shooting. I INSIDE A timeline and look at the e-mails sent by Virginia Tech University as incidents occurred. Pg. 3A A look at two hours of terror on Virginia Tech campus as gunman kills 32, then himself. "It was the scariest moment of my life," said one student.

Pg. 3A Virginia Tech Founded 1872 26,000 students campus; more than 100 buildings and an airport Eight colleges, graduate school 7 Va. N.C. 500 ft. Organs from accident victim, 5, of Leslie, help save other lives Organs from a 5-year-old Leslie girl who died after a traffic crash on Thursday in Mason have gone to help save three other lives.

Heather Patton said the kidneys and liver from her niece, Lily Stellanger, were donated through the Gift of Life program at Sparrow Hospital. Page IB 150 m. Source: Virginia Tech, AP, CNN Graphic: MCT News Service I U.S. SHOOTING INCIDENTS The worst U.S. civilian shooting before Monday happened in 1991, when George Hennard killed 23 people, wounded more than 20, then killed himself in Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.

Others include: I The worst lower-school shooting occurred when two teenagers killed 13 people, then themselves, at Columbine High School in Littleton, on April 20, 1999. The worst previous college shooting was in 1966, when Charles Whitman killed 16 people with a rifle from the clock tower at the University of Texas before police shot and killed him. "4 fs mm ii iiA MORE INSIDE STORE OPENING: New Meijer store opens today in DeWitt Township Pg. 6D FIRE DESTROYS SOUTH LANSING HOME see Massacre page3A WILLIAMST0N MOM SAYS SON, VA. TECH STUDENT, SAFE university police Chief Jim Dunlap said.

MSU has a training simulator called Range 3000 that simulates actual university i 1 1 yhrruM "We can only make decisions based onthe information you had at the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it." Charles Steger Virginia Tech president defending the school's handing of the situation Dunlap Lansing State Journal About 10:30 a.m. Monday, Ellen Wigginton received a phone call at her Williamston home that made her stomach sink. Her daughter, Miranda, a junior at Michigan State University, told her about the shooting that left more than 30 people dead at Virginia Tech the school Ellen's son Nicholas Wigginton attends. It took about a half an hour before Wigginton knew her son was safe.

Nicholas, in his third year in the school's nanogeochemistry program, works next to the engineering building where many of the victims were shot and killed. "My husband and I visited Virginia Tech; it's such a horrifying thought about what happened there," she said. "It's a parent's worst nightmare. "Our thoughts and prayers are with those families dealing with this." MSU, LCC officers trained for crisis If such a violent incident occurred at Michigan State University, all the university's officers are trained in "critical incident response," It's just kind of shocking how (the shooter) can do that in a dorm and then two hours later do it again in a classroom without the university taking any action." Adam Darling MSU freshman, 19 buildings, allowing' officers to practice responses in realistic confines. What's more, the university has invested in a "reverse 911" system, which allows emergency officials to ROD SANFORDLansing State Journal Morning fire: Lansing firefighters work to cut a hole near the porch area as they battle a house fire Monday on Gardenia Avenue in south Lansing.

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