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School Shootings

From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Cleveland's SuccessTech Academy, a school shooting many dominate the headlines for a few weeks, but the lingering question of "why" lasts much longer

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April 2007
- Police Talked to Cho in 2005
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 18, 07 1:50 PM CDT
  
  Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police could not legally take action against him, they say. More »
- Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence
  
  newser | News Bloggers | Apr 18, 07 9:54 AM CDT
  
  Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with revenge. More »
- Virginia Tech Cancels Spring Football Game
  
  newser | ESPN | Apr 18, 07 9:22 AM CDT
  
  Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer has cancelled his team’s remaining three spring practices and its annual spring game in light of the school shooting that left 33 dead. No players on the team were injured. More »
- VT Student Was at Columbine
  
  newser | US News and World Report | Apr 18, 07 7:53 AM CDT
  
  A veteran of the Columbine massacre has now relived that high school tragedy as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. Regina Rohde, a master's candidate in the department of fisheries and science, was a freshman at Columbine in 1999. "They're strikingly similar," Rohde says of the shootings. More »
- "He Was Just Like a Shadow"
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 18, 07 7:30 AM CDT
  
  Former roommates say Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui had talked about suicide and stalked three women—scaring one so much her parents called the police. Two who had lived with him say they suspected Cho might be the gunman as soon as they heard the description. "He was just like a shadow," one roommate told CNN . More »
- Bad Tip Led Police Off Shooter's Trail
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 18, 07 6:45 AM CDT
  
  A false lead in the first two shootings at Virginia Tech led to the critical two-hour delay in warning students that there was a gunman on campus, the Times reports. After Emily Jane Hilscher was shot in her dorm, her roommate told police that her boyfriend, a student at a nearby college, had guns at his townhouse. More »
- Profs Worried By Shooter's Morbid Writing
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 18, 07 6:44 AM CDT
  
  Cho Seung-Hui frightened students and teachers in Virginia Tech’s English department with morbid writing. Poet Nikki Giovanni had to extract Cho from her creative writing course when her students began skipping class out of fear of him. Cho spoke in whispers, hid behind sunglasses, and took surreptitious pictures of fellow students, Giovanni told the Washington Post . More »
- Shooter's Note: "You caused me to do this"
  
  newser | ABC News | Apr 17, 07 2:26 PM CDT
  
  The Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 students and teachers yesterday left a vitriolic note in his dorm room, blaming other students for his shooting spree. "You caused me to do this," the note said, according to ABC News. It also attacked "rich kids," "debauchery," and "deceitful charlatans," the Chicago Tribune reports. More »
- Professor Gave Life to Save Students
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 17, 07 8:49 AM CDT
  
  A 77-year-old Virginia Tech professor who barred the door to his classroom against the gunman wreaking havoc down the hall sacrificed his life to save his students. Professor Liviu Librescu was teaching a class on solid mechanics when he heard gunshots. He held the door closed as students escaped through the window, and was shot through the door. More »
- Virginia Tech Criticized for Inaction
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Apr 17, 07 8:36 AM CDT
  
  As Virginia Tech prepares for today's memorial service for the 30 students and two teachers killed in two shootings yesterday, the school faces mounting criticism for not doing more to alert the campus between the attacks. " "The university has blood on their hands because of their lack of action," one student said. More »
- Police Know V.T. Gunman’s ID
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 17, 07 8:34 AM CDT
  
  Police have a preliminary ID on the man who gunned down 30 people at Virginia Tech, but they aren't ready to release it, CNN reports. They won’t even confirm that the same gunman pulled the trigger at two the sites across campus, two hours apart, in the largest mass killing in American history. More »
- Virginia Tech Shootings Two Hours Apart
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 16, 07 5:27 PM CDT
  
  The gunman who killed at least 32 people at Virginia Tech this morning struck twice—two shooting sprees two hours apart, on opposite sides of the campus. Two student were killed at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dorm, at about 7:15. Two hours later 30 people were stuck down at Norris Hall, an engineering building. More »
- 32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 16, 07 2:37 PM CDT
  
  At least 32 students are dead after a gunman opened fire on a Virginia Tech dormitory and classroom building this morning. The shooter is dead; two dozen other students were wounded in the attack. “This place is in a state of panic,” one student told CNN; others report watching classmates jump from dormitory windows to escape the attack. More »

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Loyer Braden, center, a suspect in Friday's shooting of two Delaware State University students, is escorted from Dover police station to court in Dover, Del., Monday Sept. 24, 2007. Braden of East Orange,... (Associated Press)

Mary Grace Giles, left, a junior from Charlottesville, Va.; Kevin Hughes, center, a junior from Harrisonburg, Va.; and Ryan Bettwy, a senior from Springfield, Va., from left, attend an afternoon prayer... (Associated Press)

This video frame grab image taken from a video aired by NBC News on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 shows Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui. The video was part of a package allegedly mailed to the network... (Associated Press)

This undated picture taken from an internet website shows Pekka-Eric Auvinen who police say killed eight people before turning the gun on himself in a shooting rampage Wednesday at Jokela High School... (Associated Press)

Friends and family of Julia Pryde, as well as members of the community, raise their candles during a vigil to honor Julia Pryde, the Middletown High School North graduate, slain in the Virginia Tech shooting,... (Associated Press)

This is a screen captured image taken from internet website YouTube of a teenage gunman, which features in a video posted by a man going by the username of Sturmgeist89, who is believed to be responsible... (Associated Press)

This is a screen captured image taken from internet website YouTube of a teenage gunman, which features in a video posted by a man going by the username of Sturmgeist89, who is believed to be responsible... (Associated Press)

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