Virginia Tech shooting 2007

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13 May 2007

Virginia Tech Shooting - 2007

Monday , 16th April , 2007 - will be etched onto the minds of the Virginia Tech community forever . For it was on that day that 23 year old , Seung-Hui Cho , a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg , killed 32 people in two attacks whilst injuring around 15 others , in what was considered as one of the most gruesome mass shootings in US history

Cho , was a South Korean who had migrated to America when

he was 8 years old . He was majoring in English at Virginia Tech . Many described him as a loner and he was often referred to as `the question mark kid Cho had a disturbing past he had been accused of stalking two female students in late 2005 . Apparently on one occasion he even tried to commit suicide . His creative writing teacher was very concerned with his writings , since it frightened her she claimed . She urged him to stop writing the way he did and even recommended him for counseling . One of Cho 's poetry teachers had him removed from her class , because she felt intimidated by his writings and felt he had a mean streak in him . Cho 's classmates believed that the plays were morbid and grotesque . Ian MacFarlane , Cho 's former classmate , wrote in a news blog posted on AOL website , about Cho 's writings "when we read Cho 's plays , it was like something out of a nightmare . The plays had really twisted , macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn 't have even thought of (qted . in pantagraph .com . In 2005 , Cho had been declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice and ed to seek HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Outpatient_commitment " \o "Outpatient commitment " outpatient treatment

The bloody massacre occurred in two separate attacks on the campus in Blacksburg , Virginia . The first shooting took place at around 7 :15 a .m , on the fourth floor of a high-rise co-educational dormitory , where two students were killed . And about two and a half hours later , at some distance away , at a classroom building , he opened fire and killed 30 others , injuring many more and finally shot himself in the temple Victims were found in different locations around the building . Between these two hours , the gunman , Cho , managed to post out a multi-media package outlining his grievances to NBC News . The texts , videos contained in the parcel were filled with hatred toward unidentified people . The video reeks of rage and he expresses his anger and a desire to get even , not mentioning to whom he wants to get even to . Police claim that this package did not assist them in the investigation in any way

It is impossible to understand how such an event could have occurred . Angry and shaken students and staff demanded to know why the university did not notify them until several hours later of the incident , when they were aware of the first shooting at...