RIP VP
I did not know anyone in the shooting, thank God, but I still can't help but feel sad about all of this. Most of the people who died there were my age or terribly close to my age, even the murderer. They should have really gotten a warning after the dorm room shootings. I mean, emailing everyone two hours later wasn't going to cut it. The 30 people in the classrooms would never get that email because they were in class with the creepy guy wandering around them with two guns. I was looking at all of their pictures, and of course I started thinking about my own brother who was suffering from severe depression. When I saw the picture of the intro to German teacher, Jamie Bishop, we connected in some weird way. I think I must have known him in a past life, and I just felt so sorry for him. I heard about the 76 year old teacher who stood in the doorway so the students could get out through the windows (poor guy died), but the german teacher had no chance. Students reported that Cho looked into the room twice like he was looking for someone before he went in. The guy simply walked into his classroom and shot Jamie Bishop in the head in front of the entire class. Jamie was the first to die in Norris Hall, room 207. Then Cho started firing on the students with a very calm look on his face. That ordeal lasted less than two minutes if you can believe that. About 19 people were shot in the German classroom, only 4 got out unharmed. Five of them died including Jamie. I can only imagine how scared I would be if I saw my teacher drop down dead in front of me. I'd be screaming hysterically, I know that much. And then all of their families finding out that those killed weren't coming home. I went to one of the girl's myspace, and on her comments, it shows her friends hearing about the shooting on the news and then begging her to call her parents so they would know she was alright. She never called. With Jamie Bishop, one of his friends heard about the shooting and figured that the teacher was alright but called him anyway. When no one answered, he didn't think much of it until he heard a student say on the news that their german teacher had been shot. Bishop's wife figured he was alright as well and when the police finally told her, she went into shock of course. She worked at the same school as her husband. She was the one who told Bishop's frantic friend. All of this is just so depressing and I don't know why I even read this shit anymore. God knows I've had too much sadness in my life already. I know that everyone who died that day is much happier now even though most of them didn't even have time to live their lives. They had plans to do, and this wasn't part of the plan. Jamie Bishop was only 35 years old, thats just about the age of my older sister, and someone stole his life away. I wish someone had caught onto the killer sooner. Just by reading two plays he wrote, you can tell there is something seriously wrong with him and it makes me mad no one did anything but refer him to the school shrink. Wow, I've written a lot about this and I don't even know these people...I guess I can almost feel what their families are going through with the sudden deaths. My brother was taken away from me much too soon.