USA/FILE: Virigina Tech prepares to remembers its dead one year the worst campus shooting in U.S. history

Record ID: 324694

  • Title: USA/FILE: Virigina Tech prepares to remembers its dead one year the worst campus shooting in U.S. history
  • Date: 16th April 2008
  • Summary: (W5) BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - APRIL 18, 2007) (REUTERS) MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS PLACED OUTSIDE BURRUSS HALL, VIRGINIA TECH
  • Embargoed: 1st May 2008 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Education
  • Reuters ID: LVA291RR1J210PYRBQ5JXMDHHXF4
  • Story Text: As the first anniversary of the worst campus shooting in U.S. history approaches, Americans prepare to remember the 32 victims with memorials across the country.
    On Wednesday (April 16) the U.S. will mark the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings with ceremonies, including a candlelit vigil, in more than 70 cities and towns across America.
    A year ago a mentally disturbed student, Cho Seung-Hui, gunned down 32 people before killing himself. The shooting rampage began in the morning hours as students and faculty were arriving for classes. Police say there were two separate incidents -- one at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a student dormitory and Norris Hall, an engineering building. The shootings were about two hours apart.
    Now the only sign of the tragedy is a semi-circle of 32 granite blocks for each of the people that Cho killed on April 16, 2007 are a lasting memorial.
    US president George W. Bush said he was horrified by the shooting and joined the country in mourning.
    The massacre branded the university in southwestern Virginia as the site of the worse school shooting in US history.
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