Police are continuing to investigate threatening remarks referencing Virginia Tech as the YouTube channel in question has been removed from the site.
"Law enforcement were investigating a theory somewhere to the east of us" said university spokesman Larry Hincker. "All we can say at this point is they are following all possible leads."
A YouTube account called NextKillerVirgTech showed in its commenting history a series of comments on various videos pertaining to Tech, including footage of April 16, 2007 shooter Seung-Hui Cho.
The university sent a campus-wide notification Wednesday night, which stated that "we have received no direct threats at the university."
Hincker said that someone outside the university had first alerted Tech police about the YouTube channel, whose comments included "the massacre is coming." The account had been created Wednesday, Oct. 21. Others also brought it to the attention of the university in the time the account had been created.
One similar threat has occurred since April 16 2007. A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty this past April to sending an e-mail threat to two Virginia Tech alumni on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the shootings.
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How is this information supposed to be helpful. I like how they send us these emails with no information ans just make us feel uneasy. Can we at least know what the threat is???
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Having been directly affected by the 2007 tragedy, I agree with you that a little more information would be helpful. Since 2007 I don't have respect for the Administration, or the Police down there, because more and more stuff has come out, as to what was being hidden from the families. Having family in law enforcement, I know that sometimes they cannot divulge certain things as it could affect their case. However, since there is little trust, I would not know if I could believe those at Tech/Blacksburg
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His youtube account was just closed. Busted.
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Yea, it seems the police got trolled. Welcome to the Internet guys.
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That's a bit dramatic. Not only do police and administrators have to gather the facts, they also need to verify them and put them in the proper context before presenting their findings. Releasing information before those steps have been taken can do a great deal of harm with no real benefit.
It is a shame you do not trust the police. Those are the people running in when everyone else is running out. While I have a healthy skepticism of anything released through an authorized process, I've seen the damage caused by information released too early, without enough diligence, or presented without proper context because it has yet to be ascertained. It's significant.
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