The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universi
A candlelight vigil following the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus on April 17, 2007
Aerial photo showing location of Harper Hall (Cho's dorm), Norris Hall, West Ambler Johnston Hall, and the Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. Post Office
Elementary French class students take cover in Holden Hall room 212.
The Hokies released 32 balloons before their 2007 football opener as part of a ceremony in the victims' memory.
Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm related violence. Definitions vary, with no single, broadly accepted definition. One definition is an act of public firearm violence—
Virginia Tech shooting
…fired into four classrooms and a stairwell, killing thirty more people. As police stormed Norris Hall, Cho fatally shot himself in the head. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and remained so for nine years until the Pulse nightclub shooting, which was surpassed a year later by the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. It remains the…
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The body of the perpetrator of the 1989 Stockton schoolyard shooting being removed from the grounds of Cleveland Elementary School following his suicide.
A survivor of the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting takes refuge behind a flagpole base as an injured student lies beside a hedge
A slightly wounded survivor of the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, pictured shortly after the incident