Patricia Zengerle, who is based in Washington, D.C., was one of the team of Reuters journalists who covered the Virginia Tech university shootings.

In the following story, slugged BC-WITNESS/USA-CRIM-SHOOTING and headlined "WITNESS-This time, a tragic campus visit", she reflects on how the story affected her as the parent of a daughter preparing to go to college and how students affected by the tragedy came to resent the media's attention.

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