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 BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Eight months ago, the mere possibility that a gunman was headed to Virginia Tech was enough for school officials to cancel classes and order a campus-wide lockdown. This week, the response was much different: Authorities waited more than two hours to alert the school's nearly 26,000 students that two of their classmates had been shot dead in a dormitory.
By that time, while police were chasing the wrong suspect, a different young man was murdering 30 more people to complete the worst shooting spree in modern U.S. history.
Police and school officials have spent nearly as much time defending their decisions as they have releasing details about the Monday morning massacre by Cho Seung-Hui.
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