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Waterproof, Louisiana, USA
Why, Arizona, USA
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Northern Illinois Shooting
Five dead in Illinois university mass shooting
By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 2:38am GMT 15/02/2008
A gunman has opened fire in a packed university lecture hall in Illinois, shooting 18 people and killing four before turning his gun on himself.
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The attacker, described as a tall skinny white young man dressed entirely in black, walked out from behind a screen in a geology class around 3pm, said officials at Northern Illinois University.
The gunman, armed with a shotgun and two handguns, then opened fire before shooting himself on the stage.
Police officials said five people had died, including the gunman. Many victims were shot in the head at the university in DeKalb, 65 miles west of Chicago.
Witnesses said the gunman- said to be aged between 18 and 20 - kicked open a door near the stage in Cole Hall just 10 minutes before the end of the lecture and started shooting with the shotgun without saying a word.
Dispensing with the shotgun, the gunman - who was wearing a black ski cap and black trenchcoat - pulled out a pistol and walked down the aisles firing it into the crowd of terrified students.
Police Chief Donald Grady said the gunman was a student but not at the DeKalb campus.
Kevin McEnery, who was sitting in the fourth row of the lecture, estimated that he let off around 30 shots. He said: “He just kicked the door open and started shooting. I didn’t hear him say anything, just people shouting and screaming to get out.”
Some students dived for cover under their desks while others ran for the exits.
The campus was plunged into panic, as students poured out of the building, many trying to use their mobile phones and others simply praying.
All the injured were taken to the local Kishwaukee Community Hospital which said it had received 17 victims, of whom three or four had head wounds.
The university issued a statement on its website about an hour after the shooting saying that “the immediate danger has passed. The gunman is no longer a threat.”
George Gaynor, a fourth year geography student, who was in Cole Hall when the shooting happened, described the gunman as “a skinny white guy with a stocking cap on”.
He described the scene immediately following the incident as terrifying and chaotic. “Some girl got hit in the eye, a guy got hit in the leg,” he said.
Some witnesses said the gunman shot at random but Edward Robinson, another student, claimed he appeared to target students in one part of the lecture hall. “It was almost like he knew who he wanted to shoot. He knew who and where he wanted to be firing at,” he said.
All classes were cancelled on Thursday night and the 25,000-student campus was closed on Friday.
In April last year, 32 died after a mentally-disturbed and heavily armed student ran amok in the Virginia Tech campus. The incident prompted immediate changes in Virginia law that had allowed the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, to buy handguns.
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Virginia Tech Celebrates Graduation in Wake of Tragedy
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Graduate student Wirot Juwanuwong has his photograph taken in his graduation gown at the memorial for the slain students in front of Burruss Hall.
Graduate student Wirot Juwanuwong has his photograph taken in his graduation gown at the memorial for the slain students in front of Burruss Hall.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — The image most people have of Kevin Sterne is harrowing: a photo showing a tourniquet wrapped around his wounded leg as rescue workers rushed him out of Virginia Tech’s Norris Hall.
But on Saturday, there was a new image of the 22-year-old former Eagle Scout from Eighty-four, Pa. He was jubilant and full of life as he limped across the stage at the university’s Cassell Coliseum using a crutch and displaying a grin to accept his degree in electrical engineering.
The crowd rose to its feet and cheered Sterne in one of the most poignant and touching moments of the Saturday morning commencement ceremony at the College of Engineering.
It was one of several campus ceremonies in which individual colleges and departments handed out diplomas to students, including posthumous degrees to those killed in the April 16 attack at a dormitory and classroom building.
The College of Engineering was hit particularly hard, with 11 students and three professors killed in the shooting.
Engineering Dean Richard Benson was overwhelmed with emotion, his voice breaking at times, as he spoke about the slain.
“Forgive me,” Benson said quietly as he paused to collect himself while commemorating professor Kevin Granata, who was shot in a hallway as he tried to save students during the rampage in which 33 people were killed, including the student gunman.
The widow of G.V. Loganathan accepted a teaching award in honor of her husband, a man Benson said students fondly regarded as the best professor they ever had, the kindest person they ever met and incredibly wise.
Another slain professor, Dr. Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, was remembered by the dean for his “profound courage” in blocking his classroom door so his students could escape out the windows. He was among those killed by Seung-Hui Cho, who later took his own life.
At an English department ceremony, nearly all of the 135 graduating students and many faculty members stood when asked if they knew someone killed or injured in the shooting spree. The crowd of several hundred rose and applauded loudly as posthumous degrees were awarded to sophomore Ross Abdallah Alameddine and senior Ryan Clark. Clark was one of two students killed in a dormitory before the gunman moved to the classroom building.
English professor Nikki Giovanni read “We are Virginia Tech,” a poem she penned hours after the rampage that infused a campus convocation with strength the day after the shootings.
She was inspired, she said Saturday, by the desire to convey that “what we do is more important than what is done to us.”
The individual school ceremonies continued the theme of striking a balance between celebration and sorrow that began with a university commencement event Friday night.
While one engineering student’s mortarboard read “This 2 shall pass,” and one bore the name of victim Jarrett Lane, another graduate’s said “4 HIRE.” Students tossed around an inflatable beach ball and booed when it was confiscated.
Faces were somber as the dean commemorated the dead, but graduates broke out in cheers and tossed their mortarboards in the air as the ceremony concluded.
At the English department ceremony, department chairwoman Carolyn Rude said this year’s commencement could not leave behind the heart-rending events of a month ago, but she said tragedy can be used to heal.
“It does its best work within us if it enhances our resilience, our wisdom and our ability to care,” she said. “It finds its best expression in our will to honor the lives of those we have lost.”
-AP
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Virginia Tech massacre
Virginia Tech massacre
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that unfolded as two attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people[4] and wounded many more[3] before committing suicide,[5] making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.[6][7]
Cho, a South Korean who had moved to the U.S. at age 8, was a senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech.[5] In 2005, he had been accused of stalking two female students[8] and was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice.[9] At least one professor had asked him to pursue counseling.[10]
The incident generated extensive coverage worldwide and sparked intense debate over the perpetrator’s state of mind as well as journalism ethics. Cho’s troubled history prompted speculation that yielded numerous conflicting after-the-fact diagnoses of his mental state and motivations.[11] After airing portions of the killer’s multimedia manifesto, sent on the day of the shootings, broadcast journalists received criticism from victims’ families, Virginia law enforcement, and the American Psychiatric Association.[12][13]
The massacre also reignited the gun politics debate in the United States. Cho, an individual adjudicated as mentally unsound two years before, was able to purchase two semi-automatic pistols despite federal law intended to prevent such purchases.[14] Prompted by the incident, within two weeks Virginia Governor Tim Kaine issued an executive order intended to close gaps between federal and state law that had allowed Cho to purchase handguns.[15] Proponents of gun rights and the Second Amendment argued that Virginia Tech’s gun-free “safe zone” policy ensured that none of the students or faculty would be armed and thereby able to stop Cho’s rampage. Internationally, the incident incited commentary and editorials critical of U.S. gun laws and gun culture throughout the developed world.[16]
Attacks
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Cho used two firearms during the attacks: a smallbore .22-caliber Walther P22 semiautomatic handgun and a 9 mm semiautomatic Glock 19 handgun.[17] The shootings occurred in separate incidents, with the first at West Ambler Johnston Hall and the second at Norris Hall.
[edit] West Ambler Johnston Hall shootings
About 7 a.m. EDT, Cho was seen loitering near the entrance to West Ambler Johnston Hall, a co-ed dormitory that houses 895 students.[17] The hall is normally locked until 10 a.m. and it is not clear how Cho gained entrance to the facility.
Cho shot his first victims around 7:15 a.m. in West Ambler Johnston Hall. A young woman, Emily J. Hilscher of Woodville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, and a male resident assistant, Ryan C. Clark of Martinez, Columbia County, Georgia, were shot and killed[5] in the room Hilscher shared with another student.[18] Cho left the scene and soon after mailed a package of writings and video recordings to NBC News; the package was postmarked 9:01 am.[19]
[edit] Norris Hall shootings
About two hours after the initial shootings, Cho entered Norris Hall, which houses the Engineering Science and Mechanics program, and chained the three main entrance doors shut. He then went to the second floor and began shooting students and faculty members.[2][20]
Aerial photo showing location of Norris and West Ambler Johnston Halls.
Erin Sheehan, an eyewitness and survivor of Norris 207, told reporters that the shooter “peeked in twice” earlier in the lesson and that “it was strange that someone at this point in the semester would be lost, looking for a class.” Shortly thereafter, Cho began shooting. Sheehan said that only four students in the German class were able to leave the room on their own, two of them injured. The rest were dead or more severely wounded.[21][22][23]
By the end of this second attack lasting nine minutes, Cho had fired about 170 rounds, killing 30 people and wounding many more, and still had ammunition when he killed himself.[24] Sydney J. Vail, the director of the trauma center at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, stated that Cho’s 9-mm hollow-point bullet rounds spread into petals “like a flower,” augmenting injuries to victims [1]. It took police nearly five minutes to gain entry to the barricaded building. When they could not break the chains, an officer shot out a dead-bolt lock leading to a stairwell.[17] As police reached the second floor, they heard Cho fire his final shot.[17][25] Cho was found dead in Jocelyne Couture-Nowak’s classroom, Room 211, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the temple.[24]
Elementary French class students take cover in Holden Hall Room 212.
Virginia Tech student Jamal Albarghouti used his mobile phone to capture video footage of a part of the attack from the exterior of Norris Hall; this was later broadcast on many news outlets.[26]
Student Nikolas Macko described to BBC News his experience at the center of the shootings.[27] He had been attending an issues in scientific computing computer science class (near the German class) taught by graduate student Haiyan Cheng, who substituted for the professor that day.[28] They heard gunshots in the hallway. At least three people in the classroom, including Zach Petkewicz, barricaded the door using a table. At one point, Macko said, the shooter attempted to open the classroom door and then shot twice into the room; one shot hit a podium and the other went out the window. The shooter reloaded and fired into the door, but the bullet did not penetrate into the room. Macko stated there were “many, many shots” fired.[20][29]
In the aftermath, high winds related to the April 2007 nor’easter prevented emergency medical services from using helicopters for evacuation of the injured.[30] Victims injured in the shooting were treated at Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Radford, Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, and Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem.[31]
[edit] Victims
During the two attacks, the shooter killed five faculty members and 27 students and wounded many more. Eleven students died in an intermediate French language class in Norris Room 211. Nine students died in an advanced hydrology class in Room 206. Four students died in an elementary German language class in Room 207. One student died in a solid mechanics class in Room 204.[25] Police reports indicate that 25 people were injured; some by Cho’s bullets, others when they jumped from second-story windows to escape.[3]
[edit] Resistance
Several people tried to help others during the attack, including:
- Professor Liviu Librescu held the door of his classroom, Room 204, shut while Cho attempted to enter it. Librescu was able to prevent the shooter from entering the classroom until his students had escaped through the windows, but he was shot five times and killed.[32][33]
- Couture-Nowak tried to save the students in her classroom, Room 211, after looking Cho in the eye in the hallway. Colin Goddard, one of the six known survivors of the French class,[34] told his family that Couture-Nowak ordered her students to the back of the class for their safety and made a fatal attempt to barricade the door.[35]
- In Room 206, Waleed Shaalan, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering and teaching assistant from Zagazig, Egypt, though badly wounded, distracted Cho from a nearby student after the shooter had returned to the room. Shaalan was shot a second time and died.[36]
- Also in Room 206, Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan from Indonesia protected fellow student Guillermo Colman by diving on top of him;[37] Colman’s various accounts make it unclear whether this act was intentional or the involuntary result of being shot. Multiple gunshots killed Lumbantoruan but Colman was protected by Lumbantoruan’s body.[38][39][40][41]
- Student Zach Petkewicz barricaded the door of Room 205 with a large table after alternative instructor Haiyan Cheng and an unidentified female student in the same class saw Cho heading toward them. Cho shot several times through the door but failed to force in. No one in that classroom was wounded or killed.[42][43][25]
- Katelyn Carney, Derek O’Dell, Trey Perkins, and Erin Sheehan barricaded the door of Room 207, the German class, after the first attack and attended to the wounded. Cho returned minutes later but O’Dell and Carney prevented him from re-entering the room. Both were injured.[44][45][46][47]
- Hearing the commotion on the floor below, Professor Kevin Granata brought 20 students from a nearby classroom into an office, where the door could be locked, on the third floor of Norris Hall. He then went downstairs to investigate and was shot by Cho. Granata died from his injuries. None of the students locked in Granata’s office were injured.[48]
[edit] Perpetrator
One of the photographs of Seung-Hui Cho sent to NBC News on the day of the massacre.
The shooter was identified as 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho,[5] a South Korean citizen with U.S. permanent resident status living in Virginia. An undergraduate at Virginia Tech, Cho lived in Harper Hall, a dormitory west of West Ambler Johnston Hall. A spokesman for Virginia Tech has described him as “a loner.”[2] Several former professors of Cho have stated that his writing was disturbing, and he was encouraged to seek counseling.[10][49] He had also been investigated by the university for stalking and harassing two female students.[8] In 2005, Cho had been declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice and ordered to seek outpatient treatment.[9]
According to Cho’s great-aunt in South Korea, Cho’s parents said his behavior was the result of autism,[50] however there exists no known record of Cho being diagnosed with autism.[51][52][53] Cho’s flat emotional affect was evident through middle and high school years, during which he was bullied for speech difficulties.[54] “Relatives thought he might be a mute. Or mentally ill,” reported the New York Times.[55] Cho’s underlying psychological diagnosis remains a matter of speculation.[11] Media outlets routinely compared Cho’s motives and mental state to those of the Columbine killers, despite the fact that Harris and Klebold’s motives and mental states were not even similar to each other.[56]
Early reports had suggested that the killing resulted from a domestic dispute between the killer and his supposed former girlfriend Emily Hilscher, whose friends said had no prior relationship with Cho. In fact, there is no evidence that Cho had ever met or talked with Hilscher.[57] In the ensuing investigation, police found a suicide note in Cho’s dorm room that included comments about “rich kids”, “debauchery”, and “deceitful charlatans”. On April 18, 2007, NBC News received a package from Cho time-stamped between the first and second shooting episodes. It contained an 1,800-word manifesto,[58] photos, and 27 digitally recorded videos, in which Cho likened himself to Jesus Christ and expressed his hatred of the wealthy.[19]
[edit] Responses to the incidents
[edit] University response
Virginia Tech canceled classes for the rest of the week and closed Norris Hall for the remainder of the semester.[1] The University also offered counseling assistance for students and faculty and held an assembly on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Also that day, a candlelight vigil was held. Additionally, the Red Cross dispatched several dozen crisis counselors to Blacksburg to help Virginia Tech students cope with the events.[1]
[edit] Student response
Virginia Tech students mourn the victims at a candlelight vigil.
Some Virginia Tech students questioned why the University had not been locked down after the first shooting.[4] The University first informed students via e-mail at 9:26 AM, over two hours after the first shooting, warning them of the danger and canceling classes.[59] After becoming aware of the incident, students communicated with their family and peers about their conditions, using telephones and social networking services;[60][61] some bodies were found with cell phones and PDAs still ringing.[62] Many students created Facebook memorial pages for fellow students.[63]
Tech students of South Korean descent initially feared they would be targeted for retribution.[64][65] However, no cases of discrimination against Asians were reported in the weeks following the shootings.[66]
A student-led emergency-response relief group called “Hokies United”, an alliance of student organizations (principally Student Government Association, the Class System, the Student Alumni Associates, Fraternity and Sorority life), was activated immediately[67] to help the Virginia Tech student body and families of the victims through the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund.[68]
[edit] Government response
Government leaders at all levels offered their condolences.[69][70] President George W. Bush and his wife Laura attended the convocation at Virginia Tech the day after the shootings.[71] The Internal Revenue Service and Virginia Department of Taxation granted six-month extensions to individuals affected by the shootings.[72] Virginia Governor Tim Kaine returned early from a trip to Tokyo, Japan,[59] and declared a “state of emergency” in Virginia, enabling him to immediately deploy state personnel, equipment, and other resources in the aftermath of the shootings.[73] Governor Kaine later created an eight-member panel, including former U.S. homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, to review all aspects of the Virginia Tech massacre, from Cho’s medical history to the school’s widely criticized delay in warning students of danger.[74]