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The '''Virginia Tech Massacre''' was a [[school shooting]] by one individual who made two attacks at two different time periods and locations on [[April 16]], [[2007]], on the [[campus]] of the [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] in [[Blacksburg, Virginia|Blacksburg]], [[Virginia]], [[United States]]. Government officials, the university, and most news sources have confirmed the deaths of thirty-three people including the gunman,<ref name="usatoday_studentgunman">[http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm Va. Tech president: Gunman was one of our students], ''USA TODAY'', April 17, 2007</ref><ref name="Washingtonpost" /><ref name="nyt" /><ref name="CBC">{{cite news | url = http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/16/virginia-tech-070416.html | title = Toll climbs to 31 in Virginia campus shooting | publisher = [[CBC News]] | accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref><ref name="Reuters">{{cite news | author = Brendan Bush | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1631133620070416?src=041607_1551_TOPSTORY_shooting_rampage | title = At least 32 dead in Virginia shooting rampage| publisher = [[Reuters]]| accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref> making it the deadliest [[spree killer|mass shooting]] in U.S. history by a single gunman.<ref name="includekiller(s)"/><ref name=nyt>{{cite news | last = Hauser | first = Christine | coauthors = O'Connor, Anahad | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shooting.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin | title = Virginia Tech Shooting Kills at Least 33 | publisher = [[New York Times]] | accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref><ref name="post33">{{cite news | title = Federal Officials: Virginia Tech Shooting: 33 Deaths In Blacksburg "Worst In History" | url = http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21275278.shtml | publisher = Post Chronicle | date = 2007-04-16 | accessdate = 2007-04-16}}</ref>
The perpetrator responsible for killing all thirty-two of the victims<ref name=MacAskill17>MacAskill, Ewen & Sturcke, James. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,,2059217,00.html "Virginia massacre gunman named"], ''The Guardian'', April 17, 2007.</ref> before committing suicide was identified by authorities as [[Cho Seung-hui]], a [[South Korean]] native who came to America when he was eight and was a fourth-year [[English language|English]] major at Virginia Tech.<ref name=nytimes417>{{cite news | author = John M. Broder | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17virginia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin | title = Virginia Gunman Identified as a Student | publisher = [[New York Times]]| accessdate = 2007-04-17}}</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=462447963a5f994f&ei=ScskRvH3IZeGoAK4-pGzCw&url=http%3A//abcnews.go.com/US/story%3Fid%3D3048108&cid=0 ABC News]</ref>
==Description of events==
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