By Gerardo R. Partido
Variety News Staff

VIRGINIA Tech’s Guam students are unharmed and accounted for, Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo announced yesterday following the worst school campus shooting in U.S. history.
Matthew Mateo of Latte Heights and Nicky Leonen of Yigo, who are both attending the school, are safe and sound.
“My heart skipped a beat when I learned of the Virginia Tech shootings because one student from Guam who is attending the university, Matthew Mateo, had interned for our Washington office last year,” Bordallo said in a statement.
According to the congresswoman, she was able to speak to Mateo personally to confirm that he and Leonen survived the killing rampage.
As many as 30 students and at least two professors died during two shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech. The gunman — who later shot and killed himself, according to police — was described as a young man wearing a short-sleeved tan shirt and black ammunition vest.
The death total so far — 33, including the gunman — makes the Virginia Tech rampage the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
“Our prayers are with the victims and their families during their time of loss and sorrow. It is too early to speculate what caused this senseless violence, but we share the shock and grief of our fellow citizens across the nation, and we take consolation in the knowledge that our students from Guam were not harmed,” Bordallo said.
Last August, the first day of class at Virginia Tech was cut short by a manhunt for an escaped prisoner accused of killing a Blacksburg hospital security guard and a sheriff’s deputy.