Cho Seung-hui

Cho Seung-hui was identified as the gunman in the Virginia Tech school shootings on April 16, 2007. Over 30 people were killed in the shootings, mostly occuring at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. Seung hui was 23 years old. He... [more]

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Mass shootings in recent years

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Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years: ___ Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas. Army officials initially said the suspected gunman was among the dead, but later said he survived and was hospitalized. April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed to the scene. March 10, 2009: ... Read Full Story

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Mass shootings in recent years

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Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years: ___ Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas. Lt. Gen Bob Cone said at a news conference that one shooter, an Army officer, was killed and two other soldiers were apprehended as suspects. April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed ... Read Full Story

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Police: Va. Tech Web posting not a direct threat

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Virginia Tech police are investigating written messages on YouTube that threaten a mass shooting at the university, but believe there is no direct threat to the school. Police informed students and faculty of the investigation in an e-mail late Wednesday night, saying that state police and the FBI are assisting. University spokesman Mark Owzcarski says authorities believe the threats may have originated in Europe. A YouTube user created a Web page under the name "nextvirgtechkiller" that included the statements "the massacre is incoming" and "next massacre is incoming." The page is no longer available. Virginia Tech was the scene of the worst mass shooting ... Read Full Story

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Ft. Hood Killer part of Government Mind Control Program

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Nov 9, 2009 News & Events All Voices November 09, 2009 The Ft. Hood killer is Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Virginia Tech graduate. Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students at Virginia Tech, then himself, in April of 2007. Cathy Oâ€™Brien claims to have been a victim of a U.S. Government mind control program operating in a secret facility near Blacksburg, Virginia, home of Virginia Tech. Cathy Oâ€™Brien wrote a book about this in 1995 entitled TRANCE-FORMATION of AMERICA . She claims Virginia Tech is good for two things, engineering and mind control. She adds that most of the mind ... Read Full Story

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New records: Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts

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Recently discovered records show the Virginia Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts to a school counselor nearly a year and half before the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history. The missing files for Seung-Hui Cho were released Wednesday, nearly five weeks they were discovered at the home of the former director of the university's counseling center. The files mostly contain forms from three counseling "triage" sessions released by Virginia Tech after his Cho's family agreed to make them public. Cho's family needed to give permission for the release because of privacy laws. Cho denied the homicidal thoughts in a session with counselor Sherry Lynch ... Read Full Story

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New records: Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts

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Recently discovered records show the Virginia Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts to a school counselor a year and half before the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history. The missing files for Seung-Hui Cho were released Wednesday, nearly five weeks they were discovered at the home of the former director of the university's counseling center. The files were released by Virginia Tech after his family agreed to make them public. Cho's family needed to give permission for the release because of privacy laws. Cho committed suicide after killing 32 students and faculty members in a dormitory and classroom building on the Blacksburg campus on ... Read Full Story

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Roanoke gun shop

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The Roanoke Times reported: Cho Seung-Hui bought one of the two handguns used in yesterday’s Virginia Tech shooting at a Roanoke gun shop. John Markell, owner of Roanoke Firearms on Cove Road, answered questions about Cho;s purchase. Markell said he was not in the shop when Cho bought the gun but said nothing stood out about the purchase. Cho paid $571 for the gun and a box of 50 9mm bullets, Markell said. "... It's bad enough watching the news to find out what he did," Markell said. "... But to find out he bought it here makes it so much worse." Check out ... Read Full Story

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Va. Tech shooter's mental health records surface

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The discovery of missing mental health records of the Virginia Tech gunman has victims' families and the governor questioning the thoroughness of the criminal investigation into the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The evidence eluded authorities for more than two years until Seung-Hui Cho's files turned up at the home of a former university counseling official, angering families still struggling to understand how the killer fell through the cracks at the university. The development, disclosed in a memo obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, represents another embarrassing lapse in the case. "Deception comes to my mind in my first response," said Suzanne ... Read Full Story

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Gunman who caused Florida campus alert still at large

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Police were searching Friday for a gunman who caused a two-hour emergency alert at the University of South Florida. A Tampa police spokeswoman told local media the suspect was a black male driving a gold Saturn car. The suspect prompted the university alert when he placed a call to the local county crisis center at 12:15 pm (1615 GMT), university police said. "The caller was on campus in a parking lot adjacent to our bioscience parking lot... and (said) that he had a gun and that he was willing to use it," university assistant chief of police Major JD Withrow told AFP. "We got ... Read Full Story

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Call from gunman forced Florida campus alert

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A call from a gunman caused a two-hour emergency alert at the University of South Florida Friday and prompted a police search that failed to find the suspect. The campus police force responded to a call at 12:15 pm (1615 GMT) placed to the local country crisis center. "The caller was on campus in a parking lot adjacent to our bioscience parking lot... and (said) that he had a gun and that he was willing to use it," university assistant chief of police Major JD Withrow told AFP. "We got the call, we dispatched officers immediately. We activated our emergency notification system." The system ... Read Full Story

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Virginia Tech Didn't Need This

The Muslim who slaughtered all those innocent people down at Ft. Hood yesterday graduated from VT.Let the Cho Seung-Hui analogies begin.From today's New York Times:A personnel record for Major Hasan obtained by The New York Times says that he was born in Virginia in September, 1970. He had an undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech. His record said that he had expressed no religious preference. His last posting was at Darnell Army Medical...

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Va. Tech names student center for slain professor

BLACKSBURG—A Virginia Tech center for student collaboration in a wing that was the site of mass shootings in 2007 has been named for an engineering professor who was slain. The school’s Board of Visitors yesterday approved the engineering faculty’s proposal to name the room the Dr. Liviu Librescu Student Engagement Center. The center is one of six rooms in a renovated second-floor wing of Norris Hall, where student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed...

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Kimberly Munley ended Fort Hood rampage using Virginia Tech lessons

Lessons learned from the horrific Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 are credited with averting an even bigger massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, Thursday afternoon when police officer Kimberly Munley confronted the gunman without waiting for backup and took him down with four shots. Reviews in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech, where 32 died, found that first responders' decision to be careful and wait for backup probably cost lives as...

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Virginia Tech Reaches Out to Fort Hood

WSLS.comVirginia Tech Reaches Out to Fort HoodWSETOf course, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Tech in April 2007 before taking his own life. Now- Nidal Hasan's rampage. The community wants to reach out to ...Tragedy-rocked Tech reaches out to Fort HoodRoanoke TimesOur View: Make room, H1N1, for the other US epidemicPeoria Journal Starall 300 news articles »

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Suspected Fort Lee gunman a Virginia Tech grad

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.

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Suspected Fort Hood gunman a Virginia Tech grad

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

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Llevan a escena la problemática de la violencia como fenómeno ...

La Jornada (México)Llevan a escena la problemática de la violencia como fenómeno ...La Jornada (México)Además de ser homicidas, ¿qué peculiaridad tienen en común Jack el Destripador, El Caníbal de la Guerrero (José Luis Calva Zepeda) y Cho Seung-Hui, ...

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Emily Hilscher

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Emily Hilscher was a victim in the April 16 Virginia Tech massacre.

She was never in a relationship with the gunman, Cho Seunghui. Reportedly, Cho got into an argument with Emily in the early morning on Monday April 16th. Cho pulled out a gun and killed Emily, as well as a student advisor who had come to the room because of the argument.

Later that day, Cho killed many other faculty and students in nearby Norris Hall .

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Audio and Podcasts about the Virginia Tech Shootings

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Podcasts from April 17th news conference:

President Steger
(3.2 MB; Length 3:22)

Police Chief Wendell Flinchum
(2.7 MB; Length 2:52)

State Police Col. Steve Flaherty
(3.2 MB; Length 3:23)

State Medical Examiner Marcella Fierro
(1.6 MB; Length 1:43)

State Secretary of Public Safety John Marshall
(3.1 MB; Length 3:20)