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Seung-Hui Cho (Korean: 조승희, Korean name ordering Cho Seung-hui; [a] January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia .
The shooter was identified as 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech. He was a South Korean citizen with U.S. permanent resident status who was majoring in English. The Virginia Tech Review Panel's August 2007 report (Massengill Report) devoted more than twenty pages to Cho's troubled history.
9:15 a.m.: Virginia Tech Police Department released name of shooter as Cho Seung-Hui and confirmed the death toll of 33. [69] 9:30 a.m.: Virginia Tech announced that classes would be cancelled "for the remainder of the week to allow students the time they need to grieve and seek assistance as needed." [69] 2:00 p.m.:
Seung-Hui Cho: English: 16 April 2007: The manifesto was mailed to NBC News an hour and a half after Cho had first opened fire. Upon receiving the package on April 18, 2007, NBC News contacted authorities and made the controversial decision to publicize Cho's communications by releasing a small fraction of what it received.
Seung-Hui Cho (2007), American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, gunshot [275] Choi Jin-sil (2008), South Korean actress, hanging [276] Choi Jin-young (2010), South Korean actor and singer, hanging [277] Choi Sung-bong (2023), South Korean singer [278] Chongzhen (1644), Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty [279]
Virginia Tech shooting: 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the campus of Virginia Tech and then committed suicide. In a dorm room, he first shot one student, then another who came to help; two hours later, he went to a school building where he barricaded the main entrance ...
On April 18, NBC aired the videotape and some pictures that it received from the killer, Seung-Hui Cho, that afternoon. The package, which Williams called a "multimedia manifesto," was mailed between the two shooting episodes and was received at NBC's New York headquarters that afternoon, and they reported the package to the FBI.
Indian actress, [112] hanging, [113] her husband was suspected of encouraging her to die by suicide Seung-Hui Cho: 2007: American university student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, gunshot [114] Choi Jin-sil: 2008 South Korean actress, hanging, [115] likely due to grief resulting from her friend, Ahn Jae-hwan's, suicide Choi Jin ...