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==Description of events==
<!-- [[Image:Virginiatechnorrishallvictim1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Victim of shooting is carried out of Norris Hall by police officers]] -->
The first shooting occurred at around 7:15 a.m. [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]] in [[Virginia Tech campus|West Ambler Johnston Hall]], a [[co-ed]] [[dormitory]] that houses 895 students, where a woman, identified by friends as Emily Hilscher{{fact}}, and a man identified by several newspapers and the social networking site, [[Facebook]]<ref name=facebook>[http://vccs.facebook.com/s.php?q=ryan%20clark&n=16777279&k=10008 "Facebook | Search"] [[Facebook]], April 17, 2007</ref>, as Ryan Christopher "Stack" Clark of [[Augusta, Georgia]] were killed.<ref name=nytimes> [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17virginia.html?ref=us 32 Shot Dead on Virginia Tech Campus] By JOHN M. BRODER, [[The New York Times]], April 17, 2007</ref><ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449047&in_page_id=1770 First shooting victim named as Ryan Clark] [[Daily Mail]]</ref> About two hours later, shots were reported in a classroom at Norris Hall, an engineering and science building.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news | url = http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html | title = Gunman killed after deadly Virginia Tech rampage| publisher = [[CNN]] | accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref><ref name=BBC>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm Deadly shooting at US university | title=US university shooting kills 33 |publisher = [[BBC]] | accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref> Authorities have identified a "person of interest" in the first shooting, who is cooperating with them. It is not yet confirmed whether the first shootings in the dormitory and the later shootings at Norris Hall are related.<ref name="roanoke">[http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294 "At least 33 killed in shootings at Virginia Tech."] ''[[Roanoke Times]]'', April 16, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-04-16</ref>
The motives of the gunman (or gunmen) remain unclear, though the British tabloid ''[[Daily Mail]]'' reported that the shooter at the dormitory "was said to have quarrelled in a dormitory with his girlfriend, whom he believed had been seeing another man. A student advisor was called to sort out the row. But the killer produced a gun and shot dead both his girlfriend and the advisor."<ref name="williams">Williams, David. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5 "A lovers' tiff in the dormitory... then the university killer began his rampage."] ''[[Daily Mail]]'', retrieved on 2007-04-16.</ref>
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