Virginia Tech massacre
| Virginia Tech massacre | |
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 Students gather to mourn after the shooting. |
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| Location | Blacksburg, Virginia, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°13′46″N 80°25′23″W / 37.22944°N 80.42306°WCoordinates: 37°13′46″N 80°25′23″W / 37.22944°N 80.42306°W |
| Date | Monday, April 16, 2007 ca. 7:15 a.m. and ca. 9:40 a.m.–9:51 a.m. (EDT) |
| Attack type | School shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, massacre |
| Weapon(s) | Glock 19, Walther P22 |
| Deaths | 33 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 23 |
| Perpetrator | Seung-Hui Cho |
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting incident on April 16, 2007, which took place at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a college in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Cho Seung-Hui, a senior English major at Virginia Tech who had been diagnosed with and was treated for a severe anxiety disorder in the past, killed 32 people before killing himself (suicide). The killings occurred in two separate attacks on the campus.[1] The first at around 7:15 a.m., when two students were shot and killed at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a co-ed residence hall that houses 894 students. More than two and a half hours later, 31 others, including Cho, were shot and killed across Norris Hall, which houses the Engineering Science and Mechanics program among others, where three main doors had been chained. Victims were found in different locations around the building.[2]
The number of people that died was more than any other mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Before then, the deadliest campus shooting in United States history was in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire, killing 16 people before he was gunned down by police. In the Columbine High attack in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before killing themselves.[3]
References[change]
- ↑ "Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel". Commonwealth of Virginia. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport.cfm. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ↑ Williams, Reed; Morrison, Shawna (2007-04-26). "Police: No motive found". The Roanoke Times. http://www.roanoke.com/vtshootingaccounts/wb/114655. Retrieved 2008-09-24.
- ↑ "Fact File: Deadliest shootings in the U.S.". MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18140540/. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
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