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{{Virginia Tech shooting}}<!-- Title coordinates at midpoint between the two buildings and at precision suggested by WP:OPCOORD (object size ~950 m) -->
The '''Virginia Tech shooting''' was a [[spree killer|spree shooting]] that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the [[Virginia Tech|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 two [[semi-automatic pistol]]s. Six others were injured jumping out of windows to escape Cho.
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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}}
During the two attacks, Cho killed
== Perpetrator ==
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=== Campus response ===
In the hours and days following the shooting, makeshift memorials to those killed or injured began appearing in several locations on the campus. Many people placed flowers and items of remembrance at the base of the Drillfield observation podium in front of [[Burruss Hall]]. Later, members of Hokies United, an alliance of student organizations on campus created to respond to shooting,{{r|OwczarskiUnited}} placed thirty-two pieces of [[Hokie Stone]], each labeled with the name of a victim, in a [[semicircle]] in front of the Drillfield viewing stand.{{r|HinckerMemorial}} What was originally termed an "intermediate memorial" was modeled after the makeshift memorial
[[File:VT April 16 memorial.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Blocks of stone arranged in a semi-circle in a bed of white gravel with a paved walkway in front and green bushes behind.|Permanent memorial on Virginia Tech's Drillfield]]
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===Global support and outreach===
In the days following the shooting, the campus community received several thousand pieces of artifacts and messages of condolence, arriving from over eighty countries and every state within the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/in-newman-library-memories-of-loss-and-condolence/article_29fe7f31-5107-53fd-9b25-f40f59472104.html |title = In Newman Library, 90,000 memories of loss and condolence |first = Robby |last=Korth |website = Roanoke Times |date = April 11, 2017 |language = en |access-date = April 11, 2019 |archive-date = April 11, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411233536/https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/virginia_tech/in-newman-library-memories-of-loss-and-condolence/article_29fe7f31-5107-53fd-9b25-f40f59472104.html |url-status = live }}</ref> These included artwork, cards, poetry, and original music. These items were later gathered and photographed by the University Library and are available online.<ref>{{Cite
=== Government response ===
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<ref name=Loganathan>{{cite web |url = http://www.remembrance.vt.edu/biographies/loganathan.html |title = G.V. Loganathan |work = We Remember–Biographies |publisher = Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |date = April 16, 2008 |access-date = May 3, 2014 |archive-date = June 18, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120618125826/http://www.remembrance.vt.edu/biographies/loganathan.html |url-status = live }}</ref>
<ref name="Losey">{{cite web |last1 = Losey |first1 = Stephen |title = Virginia Tech cadet honored for saving lives in 2007 campus massacre |url = https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2015/04/14/virginia-tech-cadet-honored-for-saving-lives-in-2007-campus-massacre/ |website = [[Air Force Times]] |publisher = [[Sightline Media Group]] |access-date = September 20, 2017 |archive-url = https://
<ref name=Lueders>{{cite book |last = Lueders |first = Beth J. |title = Lifting Our Eyes: Finding God's Grace Through the Virginia Tech Tragedy ''The Lauren McCain Story'' |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/liftingoureyesfi00lued |chapter-url-access = registration |date = September 4, 2007 |publisher = [[Berkley Books|Berkley]] |edition = Kindle |chapter = Chapter Three: Lights in the Darkness |isbn = 9780425221136 }}</ref>
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{{Wikinews|33 dead, 15 injured in Virginia Tech shootings | Virginia Tech shooter identified, witness reports emerge | Virginia Tech gunman sent package to NBC}}
* ''Massengill Report'': {{cite web |title = Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech April 16, 2007: Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel |url = http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport.pdf |publisher = Commonwealth of Virginia |date = August 2007 |access-date = April 26, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131015095917/http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport-docs/FullReport.pdf |archive-date = October 15, 2013 |url-status = dead }} (Additional [
* {{cite web |title = Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech: Addendum to the Report of the Review Panel ''(revised)'' |url = http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport-docs/VT_Addendum_12-2-2009.pdf |publisher = Commonwealth of Virginia |date = December 2009 |orig-year = first published November 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131015082946/http://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport-docs/VT_Addendum_12-2-2009.pdf |archive-date = October 15, 2013 |url-status = dead }}
* {{cite web |url = https://ccri.edu/campuspolice/pdfs/AAR%20VA%20Tech.pdf |title = After Action Review: An Evaluation and Assessment of the Law Enforcement Tactical Response to the Virginia Tech University Shootings of Monday, 16 April 2007 |publisher = Archangel Group, Ltd. |date = September 5, 2008 |accessdate = April 7, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230128112835/https://ccri.edu/campuspolice/pdfs/AAR%20VA%20Tech.pdf |archive-date = January 28, 2023 |url-status = live }}
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