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New Virginia Tech report finds lapses

Some leaders’ kin told of gunman 80 minutes before rest of campus

Posted: December 5, 2009 at 5:47 a.m.

During the deadliest campus shooting in American history, Virginia Tech officials locked down some administrative offices and warned their own families well before the rest of the campus was alerted, according to revisions made in the state’s official report on the massacre.

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