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The Virginia Tech Massacre

Blacksburg, Virginia, United StatesApril 16, 2007

On April 16, 2007, student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history. Cho had a history of mental illness and had been court-ordered to receive outpatient psychiatric treatment. The massacre prompted sweeping changes to U.S. gun laws regarding mental health record reporting.