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Yonnie3

(19,570 posts) Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:10 AM Feb 2022

One dead, four injured after shooting at Blacksburg nightspot, police say

From the Roanoke Times 2/5/2022

One dead, four injured after shooting at Blacksburg nightspot, police say

Mike Niziolek 2 hrs ago

BLACKSBURG — A shooting in a downtown nightspot just before midnight Friday left one person dead and four injured as police continued to search a closed-off, multiple block section near the Virginia Tech campus hours later.

A Blacksburg police statement issued at 2 a.m. gave few details of the gun violence at Melody Hookah Lounge, located at 109 North Main St., but said "multiple individuals were transported from the scene to local hospitals."

A 5:30 a.m. update later said five people were injured in the shooting, four were transported to local hospitals and one died. No identities have been released.

A statement issued by Virginia Tech President Tim Sands said one of the injured people is a Virginia Tech student.
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https://roanoke.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/multiple-people-taken-to-hospital-after-shooting-at-blacksburg-nightspot-police-say/article_f52efd72-865b-11ec-ba07-ab74407bba9e.html

Every damn day there are more gun wounds and deaths in the news.

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One dead, four injured after shooting at Blacksburg nightspot, police say (Original Post) Yonnie3 Feb 2022 OP

The Second Amendment is doing us all in. secondwind Feb 2022 #1

Of all the cities, too. I didn't go to VT, but tons of my coworkers did. Thanks. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #2

I have family in Blacksburg employed* at VT Yonnie3 Feb 2022 #5

That thought has crossed my mind too. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #6

We have had more than 1 mass shootings per day in 2022 Botany Feb 2022 #3

Too many guns + too much rage Wicked Blue Feb 2022 #4

Patrick Henry High School student killed in Blacksburg shooting, four injured; suspect taken into... mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 #7

Thanks for the update. n/t Yonnie3 Feb 2022 #8

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. The Second Amendment is doing us all in.

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:12 AM

Feb 2022

😭😭😭

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,830 posts)

2. Of all the cities, too. I didn't go to VT, but tons of my coworkers did. Thanks.

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:15 AM

Feb 2022

Nothing here yet:

https://twitter.com/CollegiateTimes

Yonnie3

(19,570 posts)

5. I have family in Blacksburg employed* at VT

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:24 AM

Feb 2022

They lost a friend in the mass 2007 shooting. They are always upset when things like this happen.

I declined VT's admission offer and went to UVa. I'm still wondering if I choose wrong.

* one just retired

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,830 posts)

6. That thought has crossed my mind too.

Reply to Yonnie3 (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:32 AM

Feb 2022

I declined VT's admission offer and went to UVa. I'm still wondering if I choose wrong.

I've never met anyone from VT who wishes he hadn't gone there.

Botany

(77,881 posts)

3. We have had more than 1 mass shootings per day in 2022

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:20 AM

Feb 2022

Last edited Sat Feb 5, 2022, 08:43 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Its the guns end of story.

Wicked Blue

(9,025 posts)

4. Too many guns + too much rage

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Sat Feb 5, 2022, 10:22 AM

Feb 2022

one shooting after another after another after another

Rinse and repeat.

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,830 posts)

7. Patrick Henry High School student killed in Blacksburg shooting, four injured; suspect taken into...

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 09:48 AM

Feb 2022

ALERT | TOP STORY | BREAKING

Patrick Henry High School student killed in Blacksburg shooting, four injured; suspect taken into custody

Mike Niziolek , Mike Gangloff 9 hrs ago

BLACKSBURG — A student at Roanoke’s Patrick Henry High School died late Friday in a shooting at a downtown Blacksburg hookah lounge. Police took a man into custody for his slaying and for the wounding of four others.

In a statement issued Saturday night, Blacksburg police identified the person killed in the shooting as Isiah O. Robinson, 18. They said that six warrants have been issued for Jamel D. Flint, 24: for first-degree murder, four counts of attempted first-degree murder, and one count of using a gun to commit a felony.

After 10:30 p.m. Saturday night, the Blacksburg police issued a statement saying Flint "has been taken into custody in Roanoke Virginia without incident." ... Earlier in the evening, police said Flint was considered to be armed and dangerous. The Blacksburg police statement offered no explanation as to why the department waited almost 20 hours to disclose that an armed and dangerous suspect was at large.

Robinson, a linebacker and running back, was mourned in a Saturday night post on the Patrick Henry football team Twitter account. It included a picture of Robinson in his Patriots uniform with No. 3 on his chest. “Isiah will be missed and our hearts and prayers go out to his family, football family and friends,” the tweet said.

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Staff writer Robert Anderson contributed to this report.

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Mike Niziolek
Author email mike.niziolek@roanoke.com

Mike Gangloff
Mike Gangloff covers crime, breaking news and courts in the New River Valley. He can be reached at mike.gangloff@roanoke.com or (540) 381-1669.
Author twitter https://www.twitter.com/MikeGangloffRT
Author email Mike.Gangloff@roanoke.com

Yonnie3

(19,570 posts)

8. Thanks for the update. n/t

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #7)

Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:06 AM

Feb 2022

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