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   Crime   
   2007   
      
   Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead   
      
   In one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, 32   
   people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia   
   Tech by Seung Hui Cho, a student at the college who later   
   committed suicide.   
      
   The Virginia Tech shooting began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a   
   23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based   
   Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shot a   
   female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus   
   dormitory before fleeing the building.   
      
   Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity,   
   they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a   
   suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-   
   violence incident.   
      
   However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter   
   handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of   
   ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked   
   several main doors and went from room to room shooting people.   
   Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he died from a   
   self-inflicted gunshot wound.   
      
   The attack left 32 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. In   
   all, 27 students and five faculty members died in the massacre.   
      
   Two days later, on April 18, NBC News received a package of   
   materials from Cho with a timestamp indicating he had mailed it   
   from a Virginia post office between the first and second   
   shooting attacks. Contained in the package were photos of a gun-   
   wielding Cho, along with a rambling video diatribe in which he   
   ranted about wealthy “brats,” among other topics.   
      
   In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, authorities   
   found no evidence that Cho, who was born in South Korea and   
   moved to America with his family in 1992, had specifically   
   targeted any of his victims. The public soon learned that Cho,   
   described by students as a loner who rarely spoke to anyone, had   
   a history of mental-health problems.   
      
   It was also revealed that angry, violent writings Cho made for   
   certain class assignments had raised concern among some of his   
   professors and fellow students well before the events of April   
   16.   
      
   In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined by the U.S. Department of   
   Education for failing to issue a prompt campus-wide warning   
   after Cho shot his first two victims.   
      
   School officials sent an email notification about the dorm   
   shooting to students and faculty at 9:26 that morning. According   
   to the Department of Education, the message was vague and did   
   not indicate there had been a murder or that the gunman was   
   still at large.   
      
   https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/massacre-at-virginia-   
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