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Va. Tech massacre: The victims

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:29 PM EDT, April 17, 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.

Below is a list of some of the victims in the shootings at Virginia Tech being compiled by Newsday.com from various news sources, including The Associated Press and the CollegiateTimes.com at Virginia Tech University.

Killed:

-- Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, a student from Peru who was studying international relations. He was shot during French class, according to his mother, Betty Cueva.

-- Liviu Librescu, 76, engineering science and mathematics lecturer, according to Ishwar K. Puri, the head of the engineering science and mechanics department

-- Kevin Granata, age unknown, engineering science and mechanics professor, according to Ishwar K. Puri, the head of the engineering science and mechanics department.

-- Ryan Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., biology and English major, according to Columbia County Coroner Vernon Collins

-- G.V. Loganathan, 51, civil and environmental engineering professor, according to his brother G.V. Palanivel

-- Ross Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., according to his mother, Lynnette Alameddine.

-- Matthew La Porte, 20, a freshman from Dumont, N.J., according to Dumont Police Chief Brian Venezio.

-- Maxine Turner, a senior, chemical engineering major, from Vienna, Va.

-- Henry Lee, a freshman, computer engineering major, from Roanoke, Va.

-- Jamie Bishop, 35, according to Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany, where he helped run an exchange program.

-- Juan Ramon Ortiz, a 26-year-old graduate student in engineering from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, according to his wife, Liselle Vega Cortes.

-- Jarrett L. Lane, according to Riffe's Funeral Service Inc. in Narrows, Va.

-- Leslie Sherman, a sophomore, History and International Studies major

-- Caitlin Hammaren, a sophomore, International Studies and French major

-- Reema Samaha, a freshman, from Centreville, Va.

-- Emily Hilscher, a freshman, animal and poultry sciences major, from Woodville, Va.

-- Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va. according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y.

-- Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in international studies and French, according to Minisink Valley, N.Y., school officials who spoke with Hammaren's family.

-- Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, of Bellefonte, Pa., according to Penn State University, his alma mater and his father's employer.

-- Daniel O'Neil, 22, a graduate student in engineering from Rhode Island, confirmed Eric Cardenas of Connecticut College, where O'Neil's father, Bill, is director of major gifts.

More names will be added as they are released.