Dominican student Carlos Alberto Espaillat Bonnelly was one of the many students who personally experienced the tragedy at Virginia Tech University where 32 people were killed and 15 injured after a gunman went on a morning shooting rampage. Espaillat explains that he was sleeping in his dorm room when he received a phone call at around 7:30am warning him about events outside his dorm room. He said that he then turned on the television and watched the story as it developed. Espaillat is a first year civil engineering student.