Virginia Tech shooting report details fumbled response

Friday, December 4, 2009 | 2:01 p.m. CST

RICHMOND, Va. — Some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families and the president's office was locked down well before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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