Virginia Tech shooting
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University... Wikipedia
- Location: Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.
- Date: April 16, 2007, c. 7:15 – 9:51 a.m. (EDT)
- Target: Students, staff and faculty at Virginia Tech
- Attack type: Mass shooting, school shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide, spree shooting
- Weapons: Glock 19 pistol, Walther P22 pistol
- Deaths: 33 (including the perpetrator)
- Non-fatal injuries: 23 (17 from gunfire, 6 from jumping out of windows)
- Perpetrator: Seung-Hui Cho
- Defenders: Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, G. V. Loganathan, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Haiyan Cheng, Derek O'Dell, Katelyn Carney, Henry Lee, Zach Petkewicz, Matthew La Porte
- Motive: Inconclusive, possible Misanthropy or retaliation for bullying
- Data source: DuckDuckGo