Update from police on investigation into university shootings

Описание: (25 Apr 2007)
April 25 2007
1. Wide shot Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum and Virginia State Police Superintendent Colonel Steven Flaherty at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent:
"Witnesses do place Cho outside West Ambler Johnston Hall just prior to 7 o'clock on Monday morning near one of the entrances. Evidence also indicates that he returned to his residence hall some time after the first shooting. The videos mailed to NBC later that same morning, we know now, were made prior to April 16th, and not during the period of time between the first shooting incident and the second shooting incident. Ballistics tests that were conducted by the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) lab in Maryland confirm for us that the 9-millimetre handgun that was used in Norris Hall was also used in the first shooting event."
FILE: April 16 2007
3. Wide shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus on day of shootings, push to close up as officers enter vehicle
4. Close up rifle, tilt up to officer weeping, tilt down to rifle
April 25 2007
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent:
"The evidence seemed to indicate that he was alone and, as we have gone through this evidentiary process, you know, that seems to be the theme. We can't find anyone or anybody that seems to have assisted him in any fashion, but because we're not 100 percent sure that we're not going to find, through our going-through of evidence and further leads and further interviews and investigation, you know, I stop short of saying categorically that he was alone."
FILE: April 16 2007
6. Wide shot exterior of Norris Hall on Virginia Tech campus with police tape in tree
FILE: date unknown - recent
7. Still of Cho Seung-Hui
FILE: April 16 2007
8. Wide shot flags at half mast on Virginia Tech campus in honour of shooting victims
9. Wide shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus
10. Medium shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus
STORYLINE:
Virginia police on Wednesday provided new details about the Virginia Tech shootings case, during a news conference on the Virginia Tech campus.
Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent, said witnesses placed the 23 year old gunman Seung-Hui Cho outside West Ambler Johnston Hall just before 7 o'clock on Monday morning, near one of the entrances.
He said Cho had fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes before killing himself with a bullet to the head in a classroom surrounded by his victims.
"Evidence also indicates that he returned to his residence hall some time after the first shooting. The videos mailed to NBC later that same morning, we know now, were made prior to April 16th, and not during the period of time between the first shooting incident and the second shooting incident," he added.
Flaherty said investigators had compiled 500 pieces of evidence from Norris Hall alone, the site of the second burst of shooting.
Seung-Hui Cho chained shut three public entrances to Norris Hall before starting his rampage through the classrooms where he killed 30 students and teachers, police said.
Two hours earlier, he had gunned down his first victims in a dormitory across campus.
Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no evidence about what triggered the attack, or whether he singled out any of his 32 victims.
Flaherty said authorities found no close links between the 23-year-old loner and his victims and he also said that evidence seemed to indicate that he was alone when he carried out the attack

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