Historical Events tagged with "blacksburg"

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Crime & Law

Virginia Tech Shooting Leaves 32 Dead

April 16th, 2007 17 years ago

Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech, opened fire in two separate locations on campus, using handguns to kill 32 people and injuring 17 others. The rampage began in a dormitory before moving to a classroom building. After the shooting, Cho took his own life, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

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