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The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus.
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
Timeline. v. t. e. Seung-Hui Cho (Korean: 조승희, Korean name ordering Cho Seung-hui; [a] January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), [9] is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872.
For the third time in two weeks, a rainbow Pride flag was stolen from outside a religious center on the Virginia Tech campus. This time, however, the LGBTQ symbol was replaced by two Confederate ...
Koch and his father alerted Virginia Tech campus police that Cho had sent Koch a suicidal instant message. Virginia Tech campus police took Cho off campus to a voluntary counseling evaluation at New River Community Services, [11] where he was examined by Kathy Goodbey. Goodbey determined that he was "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization."
The Virginia Tech campus was shocked by Zhu's crimes. [5] Virginia Tech president Charles W. Steger wrote in a letter to the campus community that their hearts "go out to the victim [Yang Xin] and her family". [4] It was the first murder on the campus since the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. [4] [1] [6]
On April 16, 2007, media from around the world descended on Blacksburg, Virginia, upon receiving word of the Virginia Tech shooting . Reports included US evening news anchors Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charles Gibson. Additionally, all network morning shows and the late-night ABC show Nightline sent reporters to the Virginia Tech campus ...