Holocaust Survivor Killed at Virginia Tech Saving Students

29099920.jpeg“It wasn’t like an automatic weapon, but it was a steady ‘pow,’ ‘pow,’ ‘pow,’ ‘pow,’ ” Mallalieu, 23, said in a phone interview with The Sun. “We didn’t know what to do at first.” Then the sound of the gunshots shifted. Coming closer.Their next move became instantly clear: Get out.

Mallalieu said his professor held the door shut while students darted to the windows. Some climbed on desks, ledges and a radiator cover to pull down the screens and kick at the metal-framed glass, Mallalieu said. Three windows easily gave way and swung open on hinges as the gunshots got louder.

Mallalieu said he never saw Librescu escape. “I don’t think my teacher got out.”Librescu, a professor of engineering science and mechanics who was educated in Romania and is a U.S. citizen, could not be reached Monday. As of 4 p.m., his wife had not been able to find him either.

“I am looking also. I know that he was shot, but I cannot find him,” she said, panicked, in a phone interview. “How is it possible that a wife cannot know?”

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A 75-year-old Israeli professor and Holocaust survivor was killed in the massacre at Virginia Tech on Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday when he leaped between the gunner and his students.

According to eye witnesses the heroic action of Liviu Librescu, a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, saved the lives of an unknown number of students in his class. Asael Arad, an Israeli Virginia Tech student told Army Radio that “all the students lived — because of him,” The Jerusalem Post reported.

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Gun-loving student wrongly accused

n6202368_335988158592narrowweb300×4140.jpegHe is an Asian-American student at Virginia Tech University, whose personal blogs reveal a recently wounded heart and an eye-opening gun fetish.

But Wayne Chiang – the subject of fevered speculation on the internet – is not the man responsible for this morning’s massacre at the southern US university.

Rumours that Chiang, 23, was the mass murderer spread across the world after links to his various blogs were posted on social networking website Facebook and similar sites. Many noted the similarities between Chiang and the person described in accounts of the Virginia Tech tragedy as the shooter.

More than 80,000 people visited Chiang’s sites. The sites are decorated with photos of Chiang posing with semi-automatic weapons and Russian rifles. His last post before the killings showed him proudly standing alongside 14 Russian Mosin Nagant M44 weapons.

The sites also suggested a recent break-up, quoting maudlin love songs by Justin Timberlake and Katie Melua and quoting an “American proverb”: “There are plenty of fish in the sea”. One of the blogs was titled “Those who love at first sight are traitors at every glance”.

At 10.29pm US Eastern time, Chiang finally sought to clear up the confusion.

“Coming out,” his post said. “I am not the shooter. Through this experience, I have received numerous death threats, slanderous accusations, and my phone is out of charge from the barrage of calls. Local police have been notified of the situation.”

Later, he sent his condolences to the families of those killed in Virginia, signing off with the slogan, “Go Hokies.”

In an interview with American ABC, Chiang said: “Right now pretty much the internet thinks it is me . . . I am just interested in trying to clear my name.

“It was five for five. I was Asian, I lived in (the dorm), I go to V Tech, I recently broke up with my girlfriend and I collect guns.”

Chiang believes that guns should be allowed on the Virginia Tech campus.

“I am a firm believer that if Virginia Tech students were allowed to conceal carry, this situation could have ended sooner.”

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