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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.
- Colin Goddard
- ’It Was The Most Scared I've Ever Been in My Life’
- Emily Haas
- Moving Forward: ‘It Was Hard’
- Austin Cloyd
- Remembering Austin
- Matthew La Porte
- A Heroic Act Recognized
- A Mother Fights For Change
- Virginia Tech 10 Years Later
With his parents working in international development, Colin Goddard lived all over the world as a child and graduated high school in Cairo, Egypt. In 2007, Goddard was in his fourth year pursuing an international relations degree at Virginia Tech. "I was the average 21-year-old college student enjoying life downtown," Goddard told ABC News recentl...
Moments later, the class heard what Goddard described as "bangs." Professor Couture-Nowak looked outside the classroom door and slammed it shut before telling the students to get under the desks and call 911, Goddard recalled. "For the first time in my life, I called 911 from my phone and heard a woman's voice and tried to explain to her that I tho...
Emily Haas was a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in business at the time of the Virginia Tech shooting. Haas was huddled underneath her desk when two shots grazed her head. Although she was injured, Haas picked up Goddard's cellphone and remained on the line with emergency personnel. "When the shooting was over, the 911 operator told me the police c...
Haas, now 29, teaches high school French, is married and has a toddler daughter. She returned to Virginia Tech to pursue her degree after a short leave of absence. While she seldom shares her story, Haas said her message is to always be kind to others. “Because you never know what someone else is going through or what they're struggling with," she ...
Austin Cloyd, an international relations and French major, was two weeks shy of her 19th birthday when she died in her room 211 French class in Virginia Tech's Norris Hall. Austin was an A-student, a children's lifeguard, an officer in the International Relations Organization, an active participant in model United Nations conferences and passionate...
When asked what he misses most about his daughter, Bryan Cloyd replied, "Everything." "I don't think I can say one particular thing," he said. "Your future kind of goes away when your kids go away. One of the good things that Renee and I decided pretty early on was that we were going to focus on trying to help the students at Tech heal by engaging ...
Matthew La Porte was a 20-year-old political science major who had military aspirations. He attended high school at Carson Long Military Academy in Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, before being accepted to Virginia Tech and entering the Air Force ROTC. Prior to his death, Matthew’s mother, Barbara La Porte, recalls his calling her up to tell her he had pa...
On April 9, 2015, Matthew was posthumously honored with the Airman’s Medal. His family accepted the award given by the Air Force for his heroism for saving lives in his classroom that day. It took one of Matthew's advisers, an Air Force retiree, eight years to have Matthew's actions investigated and the award approved. Criteria for the award called...
Barbara La Porte is involved with the VTV Family Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit formed by the families and survivors affected by the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. Determined to prevent another tragedy, VTV advocates for stronger school safety. La Porte advocates for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), through "Campaig...
All the classroom spaces where people were shot April 16, 2007, have been completely renovated in the past 10 years, a spokesman at Virginia Tech wrote to ABC News. The West Amber Johnston dormitory was closed for two years and the entire residence hall was gutted and renovated. The wing in Norris Hall was "gutted to stud" and completely renovated....
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Virginia Tech shooting, school shooting at the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus of Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, that left 33 people dead, including the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States .
Apr 17, 2007 · As the list of confirmed victims in Monday's massacre on the Virginia Tech campus grew, so too did the number of stories about the individuals who fell victim to the gunman, 23-year-old...
Apr 19, 2007 · Cho left the bathroom, got dressed, pulled a stocking cap over his head, and set out from the dorm on his way to kill 32 students and teachers and then himself in the bloodiest mass murder by a...
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Apr 13, 2017 · 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre, which still stands as the worst school shooting in U.S. history: Ross A. Alameddine; Christopher James Bishop; Brian R. Bluhm; Ryan...
Apr 14, 2017 · Thirty-two people were killed and many others injured on April 16, 2007, on the campus in Blacksburg, Va. Still others witnessed the shooting and were physically unharmed, but carry psychological...
