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Virginia Tech School Shooting
Virginia Tech suffered the worst school shooting in US history. On April 16th 2007 a gunman began a shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus, killing more than 20 people. The gunman was eventually killed. Details of the shooting can be... [more]
Virginia Tech suffered the worst school shooting in US history. On April 16th 2007 a gunman began a shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus, killing more than 20 people. The gunman was eventually killed. Details of the shooting can be collected here, with breaking news and pictures of the campus reaction.
(The Associated Press)
Virginia Tech administrators have been advising Pentagon officials on how to respond to the mass shootings at Fort Hood.University spokesman Mark Owczarski (oh-ZAR-skee) says that Virginia Tech President Charles Steger (STEE-ger) and about a dozen administrators had a teleconference with Pentagon...
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Leave campus gun laws to universityNorth Wind OnlineOn April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho committed the second deadliest mass shooting in US history when he took 33 lives on the university's ...
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- Virginia Tech Reaches Out to Fort Hood (news.google.com)
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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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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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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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- As Americans scrambled to make sense of the life of Army psychiatrist Nidal M. Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people and injured 38 more at Fort Hood, Tex., last week, one fact stood out for those living here: Hasan graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995. "We were like, 'Oh, jeez, not again,' " said Liana Bayne, a freshman communications major who was in charge of writing about the shooting for the campus newspaper, the...
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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 (godanriver.com)
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
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
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
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
