Virginia Tech President Charles Steger discussed the aftermath of last week’s massacre in an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, Steger discusses the university’s focuses in the past week and what will transpire in the future, including the possibility of endowed scholarships in the name of each victim.
Steger talks about hearing some of the shots, estimated at 170, that were fired by Seung Hui Cho during the second assault that lasted nine minutes. He says,
What is hard to get one’s thoughts around is that we had this one
incident, tragic as it was, and later that we learned that two people
were killed and so all of our response was focused on, first of all,
what actually happened, was there a security risk. … And then all of
a sudden coming across the radio was there’s a shooting going on in
Norris, we think there are fatalities, and we saw police running down
the sidewalk — I mean, out of the window of my board room — with
their guns drawn, and I did hear several shots.
