Gunman Arrested on NOVA-Woodbridge Campus

Shots were fired on the NOVA-Woodbridge campus this afternoon.  The shooter is in custody and law enforcement is doing safety sweeps.  Insidenova.com reports:

Police confirmed that shots were fired Tuesday afternoon at the Woodbridge campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.

Police said that a student armed with a high-powered rifle entered the main administration building at about 2:40 p.m.

Police responded to the call and treated it as an “active shooter” situation and the college implemented its emergency lockdown procedures, police said.

Police have one man in custody and said there are no injuries reported at this time.

More information will be released and we will update on the thread.  According to witnesses, gunshots were heard and teachers told students to run.  Thank goodness no one was injured.

UPDATE (5 PM):  From insidenova.com:

 Prince William County police spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Chinn says a student pointed a gun at a teacher in class Tuesday at the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Chinn says the teacher ‘hit the floor’ when she saw the gun. The student has been arrested.

 

More VA Tech ….aka Does It Ever End?

Parents of a student who commited suicide 2 years ago have filed a $43 million dollar lawsuit against Va Tech because the school allegedly did not take the proper steps after learning that Daniel Kim was suicidal.  According to insidenova.com:

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A $43 million lawsuit accuses Virginia Tech of negligence in its response to a warning that a student was suicidal.

According to the lawsuit, Daniel Kim committed suicide on Dec. 9, 2007, about a month after the university closed its review.

Kim’s parents, Elizabeth and William Kim of Reston, filed the lawsuit last week in Fairfax County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit claims the university didn’t contact Kim, his parents, roommates or professors after a friend sent an e-mail to the school’s health center saying the 21-year-old senior was suicidal.

The lawsuit says the school relied on a Blacksburg police officer’s assessment that Kim seemed OK.

We don’t send our children to college to die.  Does a college have responsibility for these young adults?  I understand that on a large campus, there are several ‘jumpers’ each year.  Some kids get away from home and die at parties from alcohol poisoning.  Others are despondent and commit suicide.  There are traffic accidents.  Some are killed by others.  Some are accidentally killed.  Some disappear. 

Where does the college have a responsibility and where is it a learning institution that cannot assume responsibility for everyone’s personal problems?  I don’t know the answer but Tech sure does seem to be under the gun.  If one believes the media, it sounds like the gang who couldn’t shoot straight.  It just sounds like the ball is being dropped way too often.

Too Many Child Molesters

Occassionally we here at Anti-bvbl blog have been criticized for not  posting a thread about child molesters.  We could always count on other blogs (that shall go unnamed) to trot out each and every story if the child molester had an Hispanic last name.  We didn’t feel the need to cover the story.  We also don’t run a mini news series.  However, tonight we made an exception.   News and Messenger is currently running 3 separate stories about various cases of sex crimes against children.

The first story  involved a man with a Latino last name.  He was charged with the rape of a 10 year old girl who lived at the same address.  The man in this case is being held without bond. 

The second story  started out in the town of Dumfries and led to the arrest of a man living in Alberta, Canada for various crimes involving pedophilia.  According to www.insidenova

Police were alerted to Mackintosh after a tip from Northern Virginia’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Dumfries police Officer John Chapman said he communicated with Mackintosh and posed as a male pedophile for two months.

 “The man found me online and expressed a desire to meet a young boy at a retail store and then take him by force back to his home,” Chapman said.

 After receiving that message, Chapman said he contacted police in Edmonton to alert them.

 Police searched Mackintosh’s home and computer, where they found “thousands” of images of child pornography, Wickens said.

Officer Chapman is a hero.  Who knows what horrors his actions prevented.  MacKintosh has been charged with distributing child pornography. 

The third story  involved a 49 year old Dumfries man who gets the dubious honor of being dubbed ‘Fugitive of the Week.’  He is wanted for child sexual assault which includes:

The warrants charge him with object sexual penetration, aggravated sexual battery and taking indecent liberties with children.

Anyone with information about Snider’s whereabouts is encouraged to call Prince William County Crime Solvers at 703-680-3700.

So we have a Latino charged with rape , a Canadian charged with pedophilia Internet crimes and a white guy from Dumfries charged with sexual assault which includes object penetration.  Obviously sexual deviancy against children crosses all racial and cultural lines, if our sampling is any example.  What makes these creeps do these heinous behaviors?  Why do these people ever get out of prison? 

Every day there is some statement made about childhood obesity.  I venture to say half of it is caused by children not being allowed to go outside and be kids.  They can’t.  It is too dangerous with these kinds of people running loose and preying upon our children.   They stay inside, eat, watch TV or play video games. 

I vote for life in prison when these acts are committed against children.  One child molester is one too many.