I found this very distressing, even though I don't personally know anyone involved (although I think my parents have a friend with a child at Tech - haven't heard anything yet.) I did grow up and go to college in VA (at William & Mary, not Tech), so it kind of feels like it happened in my home town anyway. We have lots of friends with college age kids, and my daughter will be going in three years. And my husband just wrote a church newsletter article interviewing all the college kids in our church. So college kids are on my mind.
I taught an adult Sunday School lesson yesterday about how there is redemption even in evil events. But I'm having real trouble finding how that applies here.