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  1. On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber ...

  2. Sep 21, 2024 · Accessed 24 October 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.

  3. On April 16, 2007, media from around the world descended on Blacksburg, Virginia, upon receiving word of the Virginia Tech shooting. Reports included US evening news anchors Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charles Gibson. Additionally, all network morning shows and the late-night ABC show Nightline sent reporters to the Virginia Tech campus ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Apr 16, 2017 · The shooting at Virginia Tech was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history. A massacre that claimed 49 lives at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub surpassed it last year.

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  6. Apr 19, 2007 · Timeline: Tragedy unfolds at Virginia Tech. The sequence of events that led to the killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech University on April 16 2007, the United States' worst mass-shooting. An emergency call to attend a dormitory room in West Ambler Johnston Hall is received by Virginia Tech Police Department (VTPD), the college's own police unit.

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  8. encyclopediavirginia.org › entries › virginia-techVirginia Tech Shootings

    May 3, 2024 · SUMMARY. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, also known as Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, shot and killed twenty-seven students and five faculty members, and injured more than seventeen others before killing himself. At the time it was the largest mass shooting in contemporary ...

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