Walsh said she could see the gunman pushing against the door.
"Then he started firing bullets through our door and we were lying on the ground and they were going over us," Kaiser said. "And we threw a table up against the door, and sure enough, two seconds after we threw that table against door he was at our handle trying to get in, pushing against the door. "One of our classmates, Zach, says, 'we need to block the door, he's coming for our classroom next,'" said Lisa Kaiser, 21, a junior at Virginia Tech.
The students in Room 205 said Cho came from the other end of the hallway and opened fire on many classrooms, including two where German and engineering classes were being held. "We thought it was construction, but then when we saw the police rolling up in the cars - we realized what was going on," Anderson said. One senior, Ben Anderson, 22, told Gibson when he heard the gunshots from Norris, he and his classmates were not sure what was causing the noise. He was walking, he didn't raise his gun fast." Walsh said Cho's facial expression was "blank" … Just no expression.
"I'm the closest one to the door so I got up and went in the hallway and that's when I saw the professor across from me had this horified look on his face and then a few seconds later I caught aglimpse out of the corner of my eye and I saw the shooter and he had just walked out of the classrom, and was walking down the hall towards our classroom."
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"You just hear a loud crack followed by 'bam, bam, bam," the 22-year-old added. Gibson asked the students when they first heard shots, "9:40 exactly, I was looking at my watch, and seeing how many minutes were left for math class to be over with," commented another senior, Theresa Walsh.