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The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.
Cho Seung-hui [a] (Korean: 조승희; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007), anglicized as Seung-Hui Cho, was a South Korean mass murderer who was 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.
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.:
List of school shootings by death toll (four or more deaths) Date Location Deaths Injuries Description April 16, 2007: Blacksburg, Virginia: 33 [n 1] 17: 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 ...
Complete Coverage: Virginia Tech Shooting Archived 2009-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Newsday, April 17, 2007; Heroes in the Midst of Horror: Holocaust Survivor, Students Saved Others by Marcus Baram, ABC News, April 17, 2007; Librescu 'cared only about science' [permanent dead link ] by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2007
The suspect in the Richmond, Virginia high school graduation shooting has been identified as 19-year-old Amari Ty’Jon Pollard. Ariana Baio reports: Suspect identified as 19-year-old in Richmond ...
Virginia Tech shooting: A 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two pistols, a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, killed thirty-two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech and wounded another seventeen students and faculty members in two separate attacks before committing suicide. The first attack was on the second floor of West Ambler ...
The school district in Richmond canceled a different graduation scheduled for later on Tuesday “out of an abundance of caution” following the shooting at the graduation ceremony in Virginia.