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[email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 140 ● SINCE 1908 MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH MORE THAN 30 PEOPLE KILLED, DOZENS WOUNDED IN MULTIPLE SHOOTINGS ON CAMPUS Sue Lindsey team members with helmets, Th e Associated Press fl ak jackets and assault rifl es swarmed over the campus. BLACKSBURG, Va. — A Students and faculty members gunman opened fire in a carried out some of the Virginia Tech dorm and wounded themselves, without then, two hours later, shot waiting for ambulances to up a classroom building arrive. A student used his across campus Monday, cell-phone camera to record killing 32 people in the the sound of shots echoing deadliest shooting rampage through the stone classroom in U.S. history. The gunman building. committed suicide, bringing The massacre took place at the death toll to 33. opposite sides of the 2,600- Students bitterly acre campus, beginning at complained that there about 7:15 a.m.