From Deseret News archives:
Virginia Tech at a glance
• Founded: 1872
• Location: Blacksburg, Va., population, 39,573; 220 miles west of Richmond
• Enrollment: 26,370
• Race: White 69.5 percent; black 4.3 percent; Asian 6.2 percent; international 7 percent; Hispanic 2.2 percent; unknown 10.2 percent
• Percentage of freshmen in top 10 percent of high school class: 38 percent
• Number of police officers: 40; 50 in Blacksburg
• Most prominent on-campus crimes in 2005: burglary 22, arson 9, forcible sex offenses 7, aggravated assault 5.
• Blacksburg crime: Number of crimes dropped 15 percent from 3,056 in fiscal 2003-04 to 2,593 in 2005-06. No murders were reported in fiscal 2005-06, but number of assaults rose 13 percent, to 312.
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Virginia Tech freshman Ryan Fowler, third from right, hugs his dad, Tim, of Mt. Airy, Md., as his mother, MaryEllin hugs another student near Norris Hall, where the gunman opened fire Monday before killing himself in the engineering building.
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