Kyle died in a fire in Woodbridge, Va., on April 16, 2007, the same day as the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. From a news broadcast, she learned that a shooting had taken place at Virginia Tech on the same day her dad had called. After the Virginia Tech shooting, I spent many days on the Blacksburg campus, writing about how students and the faculty were coping, thriving and remembering the lost. [What was saved: Ten years after the Virginia Tech shooting, objects of grief]“He was the best of the best,” Kevin McGee, who was then the assistant fire chief, said at the time. “You remember the shooting at Virginia Tech?” Wilson recalled the man asking.

Source: Washington Post April 13, 2019 11:26 UTC