Despite years of preparing for possibility, reality of shooting shakes University of Virginia students

University of Virginia students participate in a vigil Monday night in response to shootings that happened on campus the night before in Charlottesville, Va. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Students huddled inside laboratory closets and darkened dorm rooms across the University of Virginia while others moved far away from library windows and barricaded the doors of its stately academic buildings after an ominous warning flashed on their screens: “RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.

When Lake and the others heard someone might be right outside the business school building, they all decided to go into the closet, turn off the lights and barricade the door. University President Jim Ryan said authorities did not have a “full understanding” of the motive or circumstances surrounding the shooting.

Ellie Wilkie, a fourth-year student, was about to leave her room on the university’s prestigious, historic Lawn at the center of campus when her group texts with friends began exploding with word of the shooting. But she didn’t barricade herself in right away. Hours after Jones was arrested, first-year head football coach Tony Elliott sat alone outside the athletic building used by the team, at times with his head in his hands. He said the victims “were all good kids.”

Tha Shoota don't fit tha narrative...must pivot to guns.

Schools & police can prep/drill, lockdown all they want. You can’t prepare or stop crazy. That’s the X factor that no one knows will decide to strike.

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