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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. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
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.
Apr 13, 2011 · On April 16, 2007, 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide. The Virginia Tech shooting began ...
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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 17, 2007 · Combo drawn from various sources (Facebook.com, Carson Long Military Institute, and Viriginia Tech) shows 13 faculty and student victims out of 32 killed in the 16 April, 2007 shooting massacre at ...
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 ...
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.
