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