Apr 16, 2007 9:00 am US/Mountain
Virginia Tech Tragedy Timeline
(CBS News)
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Blacksburg police officers run from Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., on April 16, 2007.
The Roanoke Times/AP
A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, gunning down victims in two attacks two hours apart before killing himself. (Times listed below are approximate.)
April 16, 2007: 7:15 a.m.: First 911 call. Report of shooting at a dorm on the Virginia Tech campus.
9:26 a.m.: First e-mail sent to students, staff. Subject: "Shooting on campus." Announces "shooting incident" at West Amber Johnston. Urges campus community "to be cautious." "Suspicious" activity should be reported.
9:45 a.m.: 911 call about second shooting. Incident at Norris Hall.
9:50 a.m.: Second e-mail sent to students, staff. Subject: "Please stay put." States "a gunman is loose on campus." Urges people to stay in buildings. Also to stay away from windows.
10:17 a.m.: Third e-mail sent to students, staff. Subject: "All classes canceled; Stay where you are." Says everyone should remain indoors. Urges people not to come on campus.
10:53 a.m. Fourth e-mail sent. Subject: "Second Shooting Reported." Says "multiple shooting with multiple victims in Norris Hall." Announces "police have one shooter in custody." Adds that police are making "routine" search for a second shooter.
Noon: Virginia Tech holds news conference. Officials announce "multiple fatalities." "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."
April 17, 2007: 7:00 a.m.: In broadcast interviews, school president Charles Steger said that a Virginia Tech student was the gunman in at least the second of the two campus attacks.
9:30 a.m. The Virginia Tech Police Department identified Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior English in the university's English department and resident alien from South Korea, as the man behind the massacre.
2:00 p.m.: A convocation to remember the victims of the massacre is held on campus. "Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate," said President Bush, who attended the event. "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone — and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates and a grieving nation."
April 18, 2007: 8:30 a.m. There was another scare on campus as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office. The threat of suspicious activity turned out to be unfounded, said a Virginia State Police spokeswoman, and the building was reopened. But students were rattled.
10:00 a.m.: Cho Seung-Hui, 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.
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