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Apr 16, 2007 · Kevin Sterne’s story of resilience and recovery as a Virginia Tech shooting victim began with his rescue — a harrowing moment captured on camera by Roanoke Times photographer Alan Kim.
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 Christopher ...
t. e. 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. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people (including himself) and ...
Ten years after the Virginia Tech shooting, objects of grief ... Photos by Andre Chung for The Washington Post April 15, 2017 Share on Facebook ... 2007, shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. Instead ...
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Here is some background information about the shootings at Virginia Tech in April 2007, one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history.
Twenty-three-year-old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, before taking his own life.
Cho was a senior at Virginia Tech, majoring in English. He was born in South Korea in 1984 and became a permanent US resident in 1992.
December 13, 2005 - Cho is ordered by a judge to seek outpatient care after making suicidal remarks to his roommates. He is evaluated at Carilion-St. Alban’s mental health facility.
February 9, 2007 - Cho picks up a Walther P-22 pistol he purchased online on February 2 from an out-of-state dealer at JND Pawn shop in Blacksburg, across the street from Virginia Tech.
March 2007 - Cho purchases a 9mm Glock pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition from Roanoke Firearms for $571.
April 16, 2007 - (Events are listed in local ET)
7:15 a.m. - Police are notified in a 911 call that there are at least two shooting victims at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a four-story coed dormitory on campus that houses approximately 895 students.
9:01 a.m. - Cho mails a package containing video, photographs and writings to NBC News in New York. NBC doesn’t receive it until two days later due to an incorrect address on the package.
West Ambler Johnston Hall (dorm)
Ryan Clark, 22, Martinez, Georgia
- Senior, English, Biology and Psychology
- Resident Assistant on campus, also in the Marching Virginians college band
- Known as “the Stack” to friends
Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, Woodville, Virginia
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Apr 16, 2007 · Emergency workers carried people from Norris Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., on Monday after a gunman killed 32 people. Alan Kim/The Roanoke Times, via Associated Press. At ...
Oct 29, 2024 · Accessed 12 November 2024. 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. Cho, who was born in South Korea but later moved to the.
