Remembering the Virginia Tech shooting: Blacksburg, Virginia, 2007
Last updated: March 31, 2018 Date: April 16 Year: 2007 School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Location: Blacksburg State: Virginia Wounded: 23 Fatalities: 32 Shots Fired: 174/100 hits (60% fatality rate) (carried an additional 200 rounds, 17 10 - 15 round spent magazines were found at the scene) Time lapsed: 9 minutes Police response time: 3 minutes, 5 to break through chains How ended: Suicide as police approached Civilians involved: No Perpetrator: Seung Hui Cho, Age: 23 Family history: Born in South Korea, his family emigrated to the U.S. when Cho was 8. Relatives were concerned about him from a young age, because he didn't speak or make eye contact, and he was believed to be selectively mute. He was considered well behaved and obedient child, he just showed no emotion. Grandfather reports Cho never called him grandfather or embraced him as a child. Red flags: In the fall of 2005 Cho's poetry teache