Resident recalls VT shootings

As Pat Young walked back from his biology lab at around 9:45 a.m. Monday, April 16, he wondered where everybody was. On a campus with more than 25,000 students, there wasn't another soul to be found.

“I was walking back across the drill field, and there was no one ... at all,” said Young, an 18-year-old Skaneateles resident and a freshman at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

Young figured that people had slept in or decided not to go to class for one reason or another. It wasn't until he got back to his dorm at Pritchard Hall that he learned of all that had transpired, of the 30 people who had been massacred in Norris Hall, a building that Young had walked by on his way to and from class that morning.