Complete Coverage: Virginia Tech Shooting
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: 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. (May 13, 2007)
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Still grieving, Virginia Tech students
returned to their campus yesterday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a
semester eclipsed by violence. (Apr 23, 2007)
Silence fell across the Virginia Tech
campus at noon Friday and bells tolled in churches nationwide in
memory of the 32 victims of the deadliest shooting rampage in
modern U.S. history. (Apr 20, 2007)
Crazy people do crazy things, and then we struggle to
understand them. That is where we have to begin today. (Apr 20, 2007)
Eight months ago, the mere possibility that a gunman was headed to Virginia Tech was enough for school officials to cancel classes and order a campus-wide lockdown. This week, the response was much different: Authorities waited more than two hours to alert the school's nearly 26,000 students that two of their classmates had been shot dead in a dormitory. (Apr 20, 2007)
A judge's ruling on Cho Seung-Hui's mental health should have barred him from purchasing the handguns he used in the Virginia Tech massacre, according to federal regulations. But it was unclear whether anybody had an obligation to inform federal authorities because of loopholes in the law that governs background checks. (Apr 20, 2007)
As twilight fell on Washington Square Park Thursday night, about 200 people, many of them Virginia Tech alumni, lit candles and held a moment of silence in honor of the massacre victims and in solidarity with the mourning survivors and families. (Apr 20, 2007)
Members of a commission analyzing Virginia's mental health laws on Friday debated whether language dealing with civil commitments is too narrowly worded to force potentially dangerous people into treatment. (Jun 22, 2007)
Before his age, his hometown or his name, America learned one thing about the Virginia Tech shooter -- he was Asian. That characterization has bristled activists who say the swift focus on ethnicity shows decades-old suspicions of Asian-Americans linger. (Apr 19, 2007)
WEST RIVER, Md. -- While the parents of the Virginia Tech
gunman have kept silent and out of public view, his uncle met with
an official from a Korean-American association and said he assumes
the parents are doing fine. (Apr 19, 2007)
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The disturbing manifest and videos of Cho
Seung-Hui delivering a snarling tirade about rich "brats" and
their "hedonistic needs" had some marginal value to police, but
they didn't add much that investigators didn't already know,
officials said Thursday. (Apr 19, 2007)
Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho took an English class last year called Contemporary Horror in which he studied films such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the slasher flick "Saw," according to two classmates. (Apr 19, 2007)
Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech senior responsible for
Monday's campus killing spree, was a 23-year-old English major described
yesterday as a troubled, cryptic loner who liked to wear sunglasses indoors,
wrote twisted plays that set off alarms long before he snapped, and left behind
a note railing about "rich kids" and "debauchery" at the school. (Apr 18, 2007)
Liviu Librescu's coffin came Wednesday afternoon to a place he had never been. (Apr 18, 2007)
The mood in the basketball arena was defeated, funereal. Nikki Giovanni seemed an unlikely source of strength for a Virginia Tech campus reeling from the depravity of one of its own. (Apr 18, 2007)
BLACKSBURG, W.Va. - The heart of Virginia Tech is a wide
green quad, around which the institution's oldest academic and residence
buildings are arrayed. (Apr 18, 2007)
On Feb. 9, Cho Seung-Hui walked into a pawnshop on Main
Street in Blacksburg, Va., directly across the street from the Virginia Tech
campus, and picked up one of the guns he would use in his deadly rampage: a
Walther 22-caliber pistol, a relatively inexpensive firearm most commonly used
for target shooting or plinking cans. (Apr 18, 2007)
JERUSALEM - As a child, he survived the Holocaust. As an
adult, he escaped Romania's Communist rule. But it was in the last moments of
his life that Liviu Librescu was recognized as a hero. (Apr 18, 2007)
The debate was raging before the sun came up. (Apr 18, 2007)
The heart of Virginia Tech is a wide green quad, around which the institution's oldest academic and residence buildings are arrayed. (Apr 17, 2007)
Clad in their school colors of orange and maroon, they streamed into a memorial service by the thousands -- so many of them that their long moment of silence was almost audible. (Apr 18, 2007)
The image hinted at the horror that unfolded: a Virginia Tech student, sprawled and bloody, in the arms of others who struggled to carry him to safety. (Apr 17, 2007)
The gunman blamed for the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history had previously been accused of stalking two female students at Virginia Tech and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005 after an acquaintance worried he might be suicidal, police said Wednesday. (Apr 18, 2007)
Police identified the Virginia Tech shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, and said ballistics tests showed the same gun was used in the two attacks that killed 33 people. (Apr 17, 2007)
Horrible, real-world happenings are unfolding almost simultaneously in the virtual world, as Virginia Tech students and people from all over the world gather online to grieve and vent. (Apr 17, 2007)
The reaction to the Virginia Tech massacre in the nation where the shooter was born has been an outpouring of sympathy mixed with feelings of shame. There are also concerns that going too far in apologizing would make it appear South Korea is unjustifiably taking some blame for the killings. (Apr 21, 2007)
Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities and grade schools in seven states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people. (Apr 17, 2007)
An Indonesian mother bemoaned the availability of guns in the United States after learning her son was among those killed in a school massacre, while South Koreans expressed shame and shock that one of their own was the gunman. (Apr 18, 2007)
The State Department said Tuesday the massacre at Virginia Tech, whose victims included foreign students and staff, should not deter foreigners from studying in the United States. (Apr 17, 2007)
More than once this school year, I've chanted every
parent's mantra: (Apr 17, 2007)
When the topic turns to school violence, Tom Mauser usually lectures about guns. (Apr 17, 2007)
The deadly university rampage in Virginia that killed 33 people sent shock waves around the world Tuesday with newspapers and talk shows delving into the American psyche and raising questions about lax gun controls in the United States. (Apr 17, 2007)
Lacey McAfoose was jarred awake at 8 a.m. by a loud knock on her dorm room
door -- it was a resident adviser telling her the dormitory was on police
lockdown and students were to stay in their rooms. (Apr 17, 2007)
The first crackle of gunfire shattered the Monday morning calm. It was 7:15 a.m. on the campus of Virginia Tech and an epic killing spree had just begun. (Apr 16, 2007)
Television offered a sounding board Tuesday as people struggled to make sense -- if they ever could -- of why a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. (Apr 17, 2007)
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