Virginia Tech shooting
| Virginia Tech shooting | |
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The candlelight vigil on the night of April 17,
taken in front of Burruss Hall. |
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| Location | Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Coordinates |
37°13′23″N 80°25′16″W / 37.2231°N 80.4211°W (Ambler Johnston Hall) 37°13′46″N 80°25′23″W / 37.2294°N 80.4231°W (Norris Hall) |
| Date | April 16, 2007 c. 7:15 a.m. – 9:51 a.m. (EDT) |
| Target | Students and staff at Virginia Tech |
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Attack type
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School shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 33 (including the perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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23 (17 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Seung-Hui Cho |
| Defenders | Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Derek O'Dell, and Zach Petkewicz |
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Part of a series of articles on the Virginia Tech shooting |
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Coordinates: 37°13′37″N 80°25′19″W / 37.227°N 80.422°W
The Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, occurred 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 (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.
The attacks received international media coverage and drew widespread criticism of U.S. gun culture. It was the second-deadliest shooting carried out by a single gunman in U.S. history (since surpassed by 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting). It sparked intense debate about gun violence, gun laws, gaps in the U.S. system for treating mental health issues, the perpetrator's state of mind, the responsibility of college administrations, privacy laws, journalism ethics, and other issues. Television news organizations that aired portions of the killer's multimedia manifesto were criticized by victims' families, Virginia law enforcement officials, and the American Psychiatric Association.
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