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Virginia Tech shooting

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IRPT: VA TECH SHOOTING

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Va. Tech Broke Fed. Law in '07 Shooting

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Virginia Tech student recounts Friday night's shooting

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First Look: Virginia Tech (CBS News)

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One year after the massacre at Virginia Tech, the former roommate of gunman Seung-Hui Cho talks abou

On April 16, 2007, a school shooting occurred at West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident of South Korean origin, shot 49 people on campus with two semi-automatic pistols, killing 32 and wounding 17. Several other victims were injured jumping from windows to escape Cho. As police stormed Norris Hall to find and arrest Cho, he shot himself in the head with a pistol, and died instantly.
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