Virginia Tech Shooting | At Least 30 Death on Television Today --- Virginia Tech Shooting | At Least 30 Death. April 16, 2007 police in Blacksburg, Virginia responded to the deadliest rampage by a single gunman in US history. A student named Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in a dorm and a classroom. Thirty-three people were killed today on the campus of Virginia Tech in what appears to be the deadliest shooting rampage in American history, according to federal law-enforcement officials. Many of the victims were students shot in a dorm and a classroom building.
The shootings put national attention on how schools warn students about emergencies, laws about purchasing guns and mental health care for students. Cho had previously been declared mentally ill.
“Today, the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said the university’s president, Charles Steger. The campus police chief said this evening that 15 people were wounded by the gunman, although there were other reports of higher numbers of injuries.
Witnesses described scenes of mass chaos and unimaginable horror as some students were lined up against a wall and shot. Others jumped out of windows to escape, or crouched on floors to take cover. The killings occurred in two separate attacks on the campus in Blacksburg, Va. The first at around 7:15 a.m., when two people were shot and killed at a dormitory. More than two and a half hours later, 31 others, including the gunman, were shot and killed across campus in a classroom building, where some of the doors had been chained. Victims were found in different locations around the building.
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The shootings put national attention on how schools warn students about emergencies, laws about purchasing guns and mental health care for students. Cho had previously been declared mentally ill.
“Today, the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said the university’s president, Charles Steger. The campus police chief said this evening that 15 people were wounded by the gunman, although there were other reports of higher numbers of injuries.
Witnesses described scenes of mass chaos and unimaginable horror as some students were lined up against a wall and shot. Others jumped out of windows to escape, or crouched on floors to take cover. The killings occurred in two separate attacks on the campus in Blacksburg, Va. The first at around 7:15 a.m., when two people were shot and killed at a dormitory. More than two and a half hours later, 31 others, including the gunman, were shot and killed across campus in a classroom building, where some of the doors had been chained. Victims were found in different locations around the building.
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