This Virginia Beach council member was a Virginia Tech student during the 2007 mass shooting. Now he's guiding his city through its own tragedy.
(CNN) Virginia Beach Councilman Aaron Rouse was a student at Virginia Tech 12 years ago when 32 people were gunned down on campus. It was one of the deadliest shooting rampages in US historyOn Friday afternoon, Rouse's hometown of Virginia Beach was witness to its own mass shooting. At Virginia Tech, whose Blacksburg campus is over 300 miles west of Virginia Beach, Rouse said students and faculty were "Virginia Tech Strong." "I can tell you, quite frankly, that after the massacre at Virginia Tech our community came together in Blacksburg. Rouse said he's taking the lessons he's learned from the tragedy at Virginia Tech and applying them to this tragedy.
Source: CNN June 01, 2019 23:37 UTC
