During the nation’s deadliest campus shootings nearly three years ago, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative buildings and warned their own families more than 90 minutes before alerting the rest of campus, according to revisions to the state’s official report on the tragedy.
An addendum to the August 2007 report, originally obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, discloses that at least two university officials who were part of a crisis-response team notified family members about the shooting of two students in a dormitory and that some offices, including the president’s, were locked well before the rest of campus was informed.
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