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Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal Albarghouti used his cell phone to
capture video of police and audio of gunfire in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Monday.
Click above to see Jamal's video |
(CNN) -- Virginia Tech graduate student
Jamal Albarghouti captured dramatic video of the deadly shooting on his cell
phone.
He was heading across campus to meet with an adviser, not knowing anything of
the 7.15 a.m. dormitory attack that killed at least one person.
He was nearing Patton Hall when a man started shouting at everyone to get out
of the way, Albarghouti told CNN.
He said he was only about 200 feet from Norris Hall, where the second round
of shooting happened.
"I just turned around and left," he said, and that was when he ran into
police officers rushing to the scene.
"When I saw the policemen taking their guns out, then I knew that this was
serious."
Albarghouti took cover on the ground as ordered by the officers and then
pulled out his cell phone to shoot video.
He captured scenes of police officers with guns drawn, moving toward a
building. The sound of multiple shots being fired can also be heard on the
video.
Albarghouti, like many other students on the campus, was aware there had been
bomb threats recently.
But he said seeing the officers draw their guns made him realize this was
different.
"I knew it was something way more serious than that, so I started taking the
video," he said, adding that he often visited CNN.com and knew he could send his
video to I-Report.
Update 4/17/2007
 Virginia
Tech
Killer identified - Cho Seung-Hui, 23
Attention: Jamal Albarghouti may
claim his name at:
www.domainrescueservice.com
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