Virginia Tech School Shooting

Some of the best coverage of the Virginia Tech school shooting is at The Roanoke Times, a local paper covering the area.  Roanoke.com published this map of the campus, with detail about where each of the two shootings occured:




For additional coverage of the shooting from the Roanoke Times, check out the following:
- Hourly Updates
- Front Page Coverage
- Eyewitness Reports

• Located in Blacksburg, Va., 240 miles west of Washington

• Sixty bachelor's degree programs; 140 master's and doctoral degree programs

• Enrollment: 26,370 on-campus; 83.2% undergraduate students; 16.8% graduate students; 58.1% male; 41.9% female.

• Full-time faculty: 1,304; 66.5% are tenured.

• Main campus includes more than 100 buildings, 2,600 acres and an airport

Source: Virginia Tech

A toll-free information line has been established for parents and family:
1-800-533-1144


Anyone who has information related to the incidents is encouraged to go to the Blacksburg Police Department to make a statement.
To call the Blacksburg polics, dial:
540/231-6411

This is a partial list and only includes victims who have been specifically named in the media.  Collection originally compiled at Wikipedia.org:

First shooting: West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory

    * Ryan Clark, 22, a senior from Augusta, Georgia triple-majoring in Biology, English, and Psychology. A resident advisor at the West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory, Clark was killed in the dormitory as he rushed over to investigate what was going on and came upon the gunman.  Clark played the baritone in the Marching Virginians.

    * Emily J. Hilscher, 19, a freshman from Woodville in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

Second shooting: Norris Hall Engineering Building

    * Ross Alameddine, a sophomore from Saugus, Massachusetts.

    * Caitlin Hammaren, a sophomore in International Studies and French.

    * Matt La Porte, a freshman from Dumont, New Jersey in University Studies.

    * Jarrett Lane, a senior from Narrows, Virginia in Civil Engineering.

    * Henry Lee, a freshman from Roanoke, Virginia in Computer Engineering.

    * Juan Ortiz Ortiz, a graduate Puerto Rican student in Civil Engineering.

    * Daniel Pérez-Cueva, a student from Peru in International Relations.

    * Mary Read, a freshman from Annandale, Virginia.

    * Reema Samaha, a freshman from Centreville, Virginia.

    * Leslie Sherman, a sophomore in History and International Studies from Springfield, Virginia.

    * Maxine Turner, a senior from Vienna, Virginia in Chemical Engineering.

    * Christopher Jamie Bishop, an instructor killed while teaching a German class.

    * Kevin Granata, a professor.

    * Liviu Librescu, a professor and Holocaust survivor killed while holding off the gunman so his students could escape out the window.

    * G. V. Loganathan, a professor.

    * Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French teacher from Montreal, Quebec.

    * Brian Bluhm, a graduate student in Civil Engineering.

Source: Wikipedia.org