Virginia Tech MBA Profile
| 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 9:30 a.m.–9:50 a.m. (EDT) |
| Attack type | School shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, massacre |
| Deaths | 33 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 29 |
| Perpetrator(s) | Seung-Hui Cho |
The Virginia Tech Massacre was a school shooting that unfolded as two separate attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. A shooter killed 32 people and wounded a further 29 before committing suicide, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was a South Korean who had moved to the U.S. at eight years of age. At the time of the shootings, he was a senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech. He had a history of incidents at the school, including allegations of stalking, referrals to counseling, and a 2005 declaration of mental illness by a Virginia special justice.
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