Virginia Tech shooting: Difference between revisions

| injuries = 23 (17 from gunfire, 6 from jumping out of windows){{r|MR.VIII|p=92|NSCC1}}

| perp = [[Seung-Hui Cho]]

| dfens = *[[Liviu Librescu]]

*[[Kevin Granata]]

[[File:Virginia Tech massacre Damiano photo from Holden Hall modified2.jpg|right|thumb|alt=Students sitting on the floor.|Elementary [[French language|French]] class students take cover in [[Campus of Virginia Tech|Holden Hall]] room 212.]]

 

 

Cho geared up in empty room 200 before the shooting began. According to several students, he looked into several classrooms, likely to see how many people were in each room. Erin Sheehan, an eyewitness and survivor who had been in room 207, told reporters that the shooter "peeked in twice" earlier in the lesson and that "it was strange that someone at this point in the semester would be lost, looking for a class".{{r|Suvivors}} At 9:40&nbsp;a.m., Cho began shooting.<ref name="We Remember 32">{{cite web |title=We Remember 32 |url=http://weremember32.com/timeline/ |website=weremember32.com/timeline/ |access-date=May 8, 2021 }}</ref> His first attack after entering Norris occurred in an advanced hydrology engineering class taught by [[G. V. Loganathan]] in room 206. Thirteen registered students were inside. Cho shot and killed the professor, then continued firing, killing nine of the thirteen students in the room and injuring two others.{{r|MR.VIII|p=90}}

At 9:50 am, 10 minutes after the second shooting began, a [[SWAT]] team started to enter the building.<ref name="We Remember 32"/> They were not able to shoot their way through the chain locked entrances, but managed entry via a separate entrance. They went up to the third floor, but heard from student Emily Haas, who was wounded and survived in room 211 (Nowak's French class), saying that the gunman was in her classroom as she stayed on the line. As police started to descend the stairwell, Cho had already begun to hear the footsteps. He looked out into the hallway briefly, before walking back into the centre of room 211 towards the windows and, just as police reached the second floor, shot himself in the temple with the Glock 19 and died instantly. When police arrived at room 211, they saw Cho lying on the ground with his guns beside him, and some students, who were either injured or playing dead, heard the officer's first words: "Gunman down!". During the investigation, State Police Superintendent William Flaherty told a state panel that police found 203 remaining rounds of ammunition in Norris Hall on Cho and later testified that the armed aggressor was well prepared to continue on.{{r|200Rounds}}

 

 

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<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |title = US university shooting kills 33 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm |work = News |publisher = BBC |date = April 17, 2007 |access-date = April 26, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105225710/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm |archive-date = November 5, 2013 |url-status = live }}</ref>

<ref name=Kapsidelis>{{cite news |first1 = Karin |last1 = Kapsidelis |title = Va. Tech pays U.S. fines related to '07 killings |date = April 17, 2014 |access-date = June 10, 2014 |url = http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/va-tech-pays-u-s-fines-related-to-killings/article_22d2e294-c656-11e3-9792-0017a43b2370.html |newspaper = [[The Daily Progress]] |location = [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191210051341/https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/va-tech-pays-u-s-fines-related-to-killings/article_22d2e294-c656-11e3-9792-0017a43b2370.html |archive-date = December 10, 2019 |url-status = live }}</ref>

 

 

<ref name=Ki-moon>{{cite web |title = Saddened by Virginia Tech shootings, Ban Ki-moon voices hope for healing |url = http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7891 |work = Associated Press of Pakistan |access-date = May 17, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140517004515/http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7891 |archive-date = May 17, 2014 |url-status = dead |date = April 18, 2007 }}</ref>

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<ref name=Norris>{{cite web |url = http://www.vt.edu/about/buildings/norris-hall.html |title = Norris Hall |publisher = [[Virginia Tech|Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] |access-date = May 3, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140122155911/http://www.vt.edu/about/buildings/norris-hall.html |archive-date = January 22, 2014 |url-status = live }}</ref>

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