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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 (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
Perceived workplace animosity and racial prejudice, supposed revenge for the Charleston church shooting[4] On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBSaffiliate WDBJin Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith ...
Seung-Hui Cho ( Korean: 조승희, Korean name ordering Cho Seung-hui; [ a] January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Friday, February 9. Cho picked up the .22 caliber Walther P22 from J-N-D Pawnbrokers pawnshop in Blacksburg, Virginia, [ 23][ 24] across the street from the school. [ 26] March. Cho stayed in a Roanoke motel and hired a dancer, Chastity Frye, for a one-hour performance. [ 27] Monday, March 12.
Update: Police identified the victim as 57-year-old Wayne E. Gordon. A man died in a shooting in Kansas City’s Roanoke neighborhood Monday afternoon, according to police.
2022 Bridgewater College shooting, occurred on February 1, 2022. 2022 University of Virginia shooting, occurred on November 13, 2022. 2022 Chesapeake shooting, occurred on November 22, 2022. Shooting of Abby Zwerner, occurred on January 6, 2023, when an unidentified 6-year-old boy open-fired at a teacher in her mid-30s, critically injuring her.
Jocelyne M. Couture-Nowak (February 17, 1958 [1] – April 16, 2007) was an instructor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and was the only Canadian victim of the Virginia Tech shooting. She was a native of Canada, and while residing in Truro, Nova Scotia, she co-founded the ...
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...