Kevin Sterne, the Virginia Tech student photographed being carried to safety this week with a gunshot wound to his leg, is doing well in the intensive care unit of Montgomery Regional Hospital.

Sterne's bloody image ran on the front page of The Roanoke Times and has been featured in newspapers and on television and cable stations across the country.

Sterne was shot twice in the right leg Monday in a second-floor classroom in Norris Hall, while he tried to barricade the door from Cho Seung-Hui, a Tech student who shot 32 people to death that day.

Sterne, who is set to graduate next month with two degrees in electrical engineering and media communications, used an electrical cord as a tourniquet to stop his wounds from bleeding until the rampage ended.

Dr. David Stoekle, who later operated on Sterne, said the Eagle Scout's training and quick thinking likely saved his life.

Stoekle said Sterne could be in the hospital for some time because a bullet fragment is still lodged in his leg.

"It really upsets me what happened," Kevin's father, Randy Sterne, of Cumberland, Md., told the Cumberland Times-News in a phone interview Tuesday. "We just thank God [Kevin] was one of those who was spared."

According to The Associated Press, Sterne had been accepted to graduate school at Virginia Tech and the University of Colorado, but likely will require extensive therapy.

-- Jay Conley