Virginia Tech shooting
Injured people were carried out of Norris Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Monday, April 16, 2007, as NBC News photographs of the emergency response record. At a nationally televised prayer service afterwards, a university poet and English professor delivered a tribute whose line "We are Virginia Tech" became a rallying cry for those grieving.
- Date
- 2007-04-16
- People killed, not counting the perpetrator (Wikipedia table)
- 32
- What the pin marks
- Where the shooting took place, as the cited page positions it.
- Where the position is published
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: virginia, university, blacksburg
Coordinates: 37.22694, -80.42194
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