Deletion of Wendell Flinchum

Comment: The first 3 references are directly about Flinchum, the USA Today article covers his involvement in the Morva incident as well as Flinchum's background, The CNN article talks about  his involvement in both events and includes comments from a base police chief on Flinchum.  The Roanoke Times article is focuses on his history and current educational efforts.  The media, these 3 articles in particular, provide coverages of Flinchum's involvement in both incidents so while the masacre certainly did receive the most attention, it's not the only event "anyone cares about".  Not seeing how you are finding this article as e definition of a |coatrack, can you please ellaborate
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Coatrack articles (WP:COATRACK)

Comment: to Virginia Tech massacre or Virginia Tech police.  Although  is often misunderstood as requiring deletion of famous people known for one event (such as Jack Ruby), what it refers to is the question of mentioning someone within the article about the event rather than giving them their own individual article.  This seems analogous to the example given in  of the difference between Rodney King, and the guy who shot the video of Rodney King being beaten.  I agree that it's a coatrack, along the lines of "it's this guy's fault
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:1E)