Complete Coverage: Virginia Tech Shooting

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH: SEMESTER'S FINAL WEEKS

Hokies return for classes

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Still grieving, Virginia Tech students returned to their campus yesterday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence.

Virginia Tech victims are remembered in a day of mourning

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.

Korean group meets with uncle of Va. gunman

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.

Police: Gunman's video adds few new leads

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.

Va. Tech stunned by images of gunman

Virginia Tech mass killer Seung-Hui Cho reached out from his grave to lament that "this didn't have to happen" and warned that "I will no longer run" in a bizarre multimedia package received by NBC News Wednesday that he apparently mailed in the two-hour interval between two sets of slayings that took 32 lives and his own on the college campus Monday.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH

Brooklyn grieves hero professor

Liviu Librescu's coffin came yesterday afternoon to a place he had never been.

Classmates reveal strange behavior

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.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH: THE KILLER

Warning signs in a loner’s life

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.

Brooklyn mourns heroic Va. Tech professor

Liviu Librescu's coffin came Wednesday afternoon to a place he had never been.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH: A CAMPUS MOURNS

Making sense of the senseless

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.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH: HOW HE GOT THE GUNS

Weapons an easy buy

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.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH

THE VICTIMS LIVIU LIBRESCU

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.

MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH

Ellis Henican: Gun woes call for more guns?

The debate was raging before the sun came up.

Making sense of the senseless

The heart of Virginia Tech is a wide green quad, around which the institution's oldest academic and residence buildings are arrayed.

Students cope with the loss at two-hour convocation

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.

Timeline of events

Va. gunman had 2 past stalking cases

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.

Va. Tech massacre: The victims

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.

Virginia Tech shooting victims

Virginia Tech shooting victims

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