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Virginia Tech shooting survivor shares story with first responders

She urged them to think outside the box and train for the unexpected

By Ann Smajstria
The Herald Democrat

DENISON, Texas — For Kristina Anderson, the morning of April 16, 2007 began normally enough.

A 19-year-old sophomore at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., she and a friend had rushed to get to their French class. Unbeknownst to Anderson and much of the campus at the time, two students had been shot in a dormitory across campus that morning.

Anderson, now 26, told a room full of local first responders her story Thursday morning at Grayson College. She described, in detail, what she experienced that morning seven years ago and how it changed her forever.

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