Va Tech President Defends Actions Despite Report

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RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Tech's president, facing calls for his ouster, defended his university's response to the nation's deadliest school shooting, saying Thursday that officials couldn't have known the gunman would attack twice.

"Nobody can say for certain what would have happened if different decisions were made," President Charles Steger told a news conference in Blacksburg.

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Va Tech President Defends Actions Despite Report

"The crime was unprecedented in its cunning and murderous results," he said.

A governor-appointed panel that investigated the April 16 massacre at the Blacksburg campus released a report late Wednesday criticizing Virginia Tech officials, saying they could have saved lives if they had acted more quickly to warn students about the first shootings that...

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