Virginia Tech Massacre

Virginia Tech Massacre

The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows).^[2] The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history.^[3] It was the worst act of mass murder of college students since Syracuse University lost 35 students in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103,^[4] and the second-deadliest act of mass murder at a US school campus, behind the Bath School disaster of 1927.

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