ISSUE XXVIIII
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SHOOTINGS SHOCK VIRGINIA TECH

Virginia Tech students, faculty and residents held a candlelight vigil Tuesday night at the campus to remember the victims killed in Monday's shootings. Classes have been canceled for the rest of the week to allow students to mourn. (Observer photo by LAUREN FULBRIGHT)

VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS
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APRIL 18, 2007

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this small community shows few signs of the tragedy that left 33 people dead Monday.

On Virginia Tech's main drag, a sea of students dressed in orange and maroon make it look like a football game day.

But yellow "in loving memory" ribbons draped from the lampposts and signs of local businesses offering condolences serve as reminders of the tragedy.

Senior Cho Seung Hui, an English major, is suspected of fatally shooting two fellow Virginia Tech students Monday morning in Ambler-Johnston Hall. According to police, he then went to the Norris Hall engineering building, where he killed and injured professors and students, then killed himself, making it the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.   » Read more


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