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HEADLINE: Video essay: Va. Tech shooting alters lives
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CAPTION: Four members of the Virginia Tech community whose lives were changed forever on April 16, 2007, reflect on a somber anniversary. (April 16)
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Update from police on investigation into university shootings
April 25 2007
1. Wide shot Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum and Virginia State Police Superintendent Colonel Steven Flaherty at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent:
Witnesses do place Cho outside West Ambler Johnston Hall just prior to 7 o'clock on Monday morning near one of the entrances. Evidence also indicates that he returned to his residence hall some time after the first shooting. The videos mailed to NBC later that same morning, we know now, were made prior to April 16th, and not during the period of time between the first shooting incident and the second shooting incident. Ballistics tests that were conducted by the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) lab in Maryland confirm for us that the 9-millimetre handgun that was used in Norris Hall was also used in the first shooting event.
FILE: April 16 2007
3. Wide shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus on day of shootings, push to close up as officers enter vehicle
4. Close up rifle, tilt up to officer weeping, tilt down to rifle
April 25 2007
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent:
The evidence seemed to indicate that he was alone and, as we have gone through this evidentiary process, you know, that seems to be the theme. We can't find anyone or anybody that seems to have assisted him in any fashion, but because we're not 100 percent sure that we're not going to find, through our going-through of evidence and further leads and further interviews and investigation, you know, I stop short of saying categorically that he was alone.
FILE: April 16 2007
6. Wide shot exterior of Norris Hall on Virginia Tech campus with police tape in tree
FILE: date unknown - recent
7. Still of Cho Seung-Hui
FILE: April 16 2007
8. Wide shot flags at half mast on Virginia Tech campus in honour of shooting victims
9. Wide shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus
10. Medium shot police officers on Virginia Tech campus
STORYLINE:
Virginia police on Wednesday provided new details about the Virginia Tech shootings case, during a news conference on the Virginia Tech campus.
Colonel Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent, said witnesses placed the 23 year old gunman Seung-Hui Cho outside West Ambler Johnston Hall just before 7 o'clock on Monday morning, near one of the entrances.
He said Cho had fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes before killing himself with a bullet to the head in a classroom surrounded by his victims.
Evidence also indicates that he returned to his residence hall some time after the first shooting. The videos mailed to NBC later that same morning, we know now, were made prior to April 16th, and not during the period of time between the first shooting incident and the second shooting incident, he added.
Flaherty said investigators had compiled 500 pieces of evidence from Norris Hall alone, the site of the second burst of shooting.
Seung-Hui Cho chained shut three public entrances to Norris Hall before starting his rampage through the classrooms where he killed 30 students and teachers, police said.
Two hours earlier, he had gunned down his first victims in a dormitory across campus.
Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no evidence about what triggered the attack, or whether he singled out any of his 32 victims.
Flaherty said authorities found no close links between the 23-year-old loner and his victims and he also said that evidence seemed to indicate that he was alone when he carried out the attack
But Flaherty erred on the side of caution, saying that until they were 100 percent sure, he would stop short of saying categorically that he was alone.
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Virginia Tech Campus Tour - Baseball Stadium - English Field
This video is of Virginia Tech located in Blacksburg, VA. Virginia Tech boasts a large campus with beautiful buildings and grounds.
English Field at Virginia Tech is undergoing a major renovation to their baseball stadium. The Hokies baseball team are lead by newly appointed Head Coach, John Szfec and play Division 1 baseball in the ACC Conference.
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Thousands of Hokies gathered on the Drillfield to get geared up for their day service in the local community.
Virginia Tech Shooting - 2007 | Today In History | 16 Apr 17
On April 16, 2007, college student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.
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A gunman opened fire in a dormitory and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday April 16, 2007, killing at 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history, government officials said.
The gunman, a fourth-year student from South Korea, Cho Seung-hui, then committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.
The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus, with witnesses reporting students jumping out classroom windows to escape the gunfire.
Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.
Police with flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed the campus.
The shootings took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre (1,050-hectare) campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. (1115 GMT) at West Ambler Johnston, a coed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.
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Ceremony held for victims of Virginia Tech campus shooting spree
1. Wide of campus building
2. Pan of crowd attending mass service
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adeel Khan, President of Student Government Association:
++ Cutaway of crowd included++
I hope that you are inspired to work harder to honour 32, share your talents with the world for 32, achieve your dreams for 32, be more compassionate, friendly and thoughtful for 32, be better for 32.
4. Mid of crowd
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zenobia Lawrence, Vice President of Student Affairs:
Teaching and learning were central to their lives. And we will continue to invent the future through our university's steadfast dedication to teaching and learning, to research and discovery, to service and engagement, and to innovation.
6. Mid of bell being rung
STORYLINE:
The United States Virginia Tech university where 32 people were killed by a student gunman last April dedicated a memorial to the victims in a ceremony on Sunday.
Fall classes begin on Monday at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The memorial sits on the university's main lawn, the same site where students placed unmarked stones in the hours after the shootings.
Speaking at the ceremony, Adeel Kahn, a Virginia Tech student and president of the student government association, urged his classmates to remember the victims as they resumed their studies.
I hope that you are inspired to work harder to honour 32, share your talents with the world for 32, achieve your dreams for 32, he said.
One change this semester is that no classes will be held in Norris Hall, where many of the victims died.
It is being used exclusively for engineering laboratories and offices.
Twenty-seven students and five faculty members were killed on April 16 by Seung-Hui Cho.
A report on the shootings is expected this week.
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Interviews with brother of victim, and sister of another victim
(17 Apr 2007) SHOTLIST
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1. Flags at half mast
2. Exterior of Coliseum where convocation will be held
3. Home of the Hokies sign
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Omar Samaha, brother of Reema who was killed at Virginia Tech:
My sister was in one of the buildings and we could not get hold of her yesterday at all and we kept trying to call and call and she wasn't answering. We got hold of one of her friends told us her schedule that she was actually in the building. So, we drove down from Northern Virginia about a three and half hour drive, four hour drive and we we came here and found out she had died.
5. Pan of campus buildings
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Randa Samaha, sister Reema who was killed at Virgina Tech:
A man sitting next to me was reading the news on blackberry and he read it out loud and immediately once I heard shooting at tech my heart just sunk and I called Reema and she did not pick up. I assumed she had just left her cellphone in the room. She is never good at answering her phone so that is what I just kept thinking that maybe she didn't have her phone with her and then as time passed we found out she was actually in the building when the shooting occurred and I was hoping she was just on lock down and then we heard they were releasing students and we had yet to hear from her. So we drove down here praying for the best and just preparing ourselves for the worst and that's what we got, we got the worst.
7. Students walking on campus
8. Wide shot with sign for West Ambler Johnston Hall
STORYLINE:
Relatives of the victims of Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech spoke on Tuesday about how they discovered their siblings had been killed.
The family of Norris Hall victim Reema Samara travelled to Blacksburg after not being able to get through to the freshman all day on Monday.
Reema Samara's siblings, Omar and Randa Samara, said the car journey from Northern Virginia with both parents was filled with prayer and silence.
We could not get hold of her yesterday at all and we kept trying to call and call and she wasn't answering, said Omar, Reema's brother.
We got hold of one of her friends told us her schedule that she was actually in the building.
Reema's sister, Randa, said she had hoped that there was an innocent reason why calls to Reema's cellphone went unanswered.
She is never good at answering her phone so that is what I just kept thinking that maybe she didn't have her phone with her and then as time passed we found out she was actually in the building when the shooting occurred, said Randa.
I was hoping she was just on lock down and then we heard they were releasing students and we had yet to hear from her. So we drove down here praying for the best and just preparing ourselves for the worst and that's what we got, she added.
Reema was described as a person of strong character who enjoyed dance.
A convocation ceremony already planned before the tragedy was to be the first opportunity for staff, students and family to get together as a group and console one another since the killings.
The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people, including himself, dead was identified on Tuesday as a
student from South Korea whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counselling service.
Police and university officials offered no clues to 23-year-old Cho Seung-hui's motive in the massacre, the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
The rampage consisted of two attacks, more than two hours apart - first at a dormitory, where two people were killed, then inside a classroom building, where 31 people, including Cho, died after being locked inside, Virginia State Police said.
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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). The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history and one of the deadliest by a single gunman worldwide.
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Virginia Tech tragedy anniversary
Memorial ceremony for April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech shootings. Bloomington, Ind. Also a protest against gun violence.
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President Bush and others speak at the Cassell Coliseum at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA.
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting by Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old resident alien from South Korea, who made two attacks at two different time periods and locations on April 16, 2007, on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Government officials, the university, and most news sources have confirmed the deaths of 33 people including the shooter, making it the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history
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Virginia Tech massacre
Students gather to mourn at the convocation after the shooting
Location Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Target(s) Virginia Tech
Date Monday, April 16, 2007
7:15 a.m. and 9:41 a.m.--9:51 a.m.[1] (EDT)
Attack type School shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, massacre
Weapon(s) Glock 19, Walther P22
Deaths 33 (including the perpetrator)[2][3]
Injured 25[4]
Perpetrator(s) Seung-Hui Cho
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The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting comprised of two separate attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people[5] and wounded many more[4] before committing suicide,[6] making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.[7][8]
Cho, a South Korean who had moved to the U.S. at age 8, was a senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech.[6] In 2005, he had been accused of stalking two female students[9] and was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice.[10] At least one professor had asked him to seek counseling.[11]
The incident, which received international media coverage, sparked intense debate about gun laws, the perpetrator's state of mind,[12] journalism ethics, the responsibility of college administrations, and other issues.
Television news organizations that aired portions of the killer's multimedia manifesto were criticized for it by victims' families, Virginia law enforcement officials, and the American Psychiatric Association.[13][14]
The massacre also reignited the gun politics debate in the United States, and drew criticism of U.S. laws and culture from commenters around the world.[15] Cho bought semi-automatic pistols two years after being declared mentally unsound, despite federal law intended to prevent such purchases.[16] Within two weeks, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine issued an executive order intended to close gaps between federal and state law that had allowed Cho to purchase handguns.[17] Proponents of gun rights suggested that students or faculty might have shot Cho and stopped his rampage if not for Virginia Tech's gun-free safe zone policy; proponents of gun control argued that Cho's easy access to handguns was unconscionable.
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Short plays comprise Virginia Tech memorial at Brown University
What a Stranger May Know,a performance memorializing the 32 victims, students and faculty, of the Virginia Tech shootings on the 5th anniversary, written by Brown faculty member Erik Ehn was performed on Lincoln Field this morning, April 16. Providence Journal video by Mary Murphy
Mass School Shooting - The Virginia Tech Massacre - Serial killer
The Virginia Tech Massacre
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Shooting rampage
Number of victims: 32
Date of murders: April 16, 2007
Date of birth: January 18, 1984
Victims profile: Ryan Clark (22) / Emily Hilscher (19) / Minal Panchal (26) / G. V. Loganathan (53) / Jarrett Lane (22) / Brian Bluhm (25) / Matthew Gwaltney (24) / Jeremy Herbstritt (27) / Partahi Lumbantoruan (34) / Daniel ONeil (22) / Juan Ortiz (26) / Julia Pryde (23) / Waleed Shaalan (32) / Jamie Bishop (35) / Lauren McCain (20) / Michael Pohle Jr. (23) / Maxine Turner (22) / Nicole White (20) / Liviu Librescu (76) / Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (49) / Ross Alameddine (20) / Austin Cloyd (18) / Daniel Perez Cueva (21) / Caitlin Hammaren (19) / Rachael Hill (18) / Matthew La Porte (20) / Henry Lee (20) / Erin Peterson (18) / Mary Karen Read (19) / Reema Samaha (18) / Leslie Sherman (20) / Kevin Granata (45)
Method of murder: Shooting (a .22 caliber Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol, and a 9 mm Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol)
Location: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Status: Committed suicide by shooting himself the same day
eung-Hui Cho (January 18, 1984–April 16, 2007), also known as Cho Seung-Hui or Seung Cho was a mass murderer who shot and killed 32 people and wounded many more.
The shooting rampage, termed the Virginia Tech massacre, took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University—commonly known as Virginia Tech—in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students. Cho was a South Korean national with permanent resident status in the United States and was a senior English major at Virginia Tech.
Childhood and adolescence
In September 1992, Seung-Hui Cho immigrated to the United States at age 8 with both of his parents and his older sister, Sun-Kyung Cho. Chos family lived in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Centreville, an unincorporated town located in western Fairfax County, Virginia about 25 miles (40 km) west of Washington, D.C. Cho was a permanent resident of the United States and a South Korean national whose permanent address was in Centreville.
Behavior as a young child
Chos maternal great-aunt, Kim Yang-soon, described Cho as cold and a cause of family concern from as young as 8 years old. According to Kim—who met him only twice—Cho was extremely shy and just wouldnt talk at all. He was otherwise considered well-behaved, readily obeying verbal commands and cues. The aunt said she knew something was wrong after the familys departure for the United States because she heard frequent updates about Chos older sister, but little news about Cho.
During a New Years telephone call in 2006, Chos mother told the elderly aunt that Cho might have autism, a developmental disability marked by profound social isolation and delayed speech acquisition. No autism diagnosis could be verified with Chos parents, and no records or other evidence have surfaced to indicate such a diagnosis was made or relied upon by U.S. school authorities. Chos relatives thought that he was mute or even mentally ill. According to Chos uncle, Cho didn’t say much and didnt mix with other children.
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Virginia Tech Massacre - Breaking News
Breaking News Virginia Tech - From The Archives :
The Virginia Tech Massacre was a mass shooting which occurred in Blacksburg Virginia in the United States at the Virginia Tech University on April the 16th 2007. The shooting spree began at 7:15 a.m. (EDT) and ended approximately 9:50 a.m. (EDT). The shootings claimed the lives of 32 people and occurred in Ambler Johnston and Norris Hall's. 23 others were injured and the gunman was also killed by a self inflicted gunshot wound.
This clip presents news coverage just as the affiliate station began reporting the full extent of the injured and dead, which up to that point had been a relatively low number. The coverage continues in segments throughout the breaking news story as we learn of the tragedy of those lost and the identity of the gunman.
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Virginia Tech VT Memorial / Tribute Video
Child friendly version~There are NO photos of the shooter in this video or graphic video/photos. This is for those who lost their lives on April 16th, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Song: Slipped Away by Avril Lavigne.
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Virginia Tech Honor Lives 10 years After Shooting
It's been ten years since a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech/ Survivors and families of the slain are returning to campus to honor the lives that were lost that day.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, widely known as Virginia Tech, is holding a series of events Sunday to mark the anniversary of the deadly campus shooting on April 16, 2007. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine will be among the 10,000 to 20,000 people expected at the Blacksburg campus for the solemn occasion.
Kaine, who was governor at the time of the shooting, said he still vividly remembers the horrors of that day, but has also grown close to many of the survivors and the victims' families. Kaine said April 16, 2007 remains the worst day of my life.
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Virginia Tech - Remembrance
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Virginia Tech honors 32 lives lost
VT holds Day of Remembrance to honor 32 lives lost
Virginia Tech Memorial 04-17-2007
A hymn to the fallen at Virginia Tech and a tribute to the courage and strength of the students, faculty and staff of Va. Tech and the Blacksburg, Va. community. We are Virginia Tech.