Virginia Tech killings worst college shooting since 1966 U. Texas incident

University Wire | April 17, 2007| | Copyright

M.T. Elliott
University Wire
04-17-2007
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas will no longer hold the painful distinction as home of the deadliest school shooting in American history after a gunman on the Virginia Tech University campus left 33 dead on Monday.

The massacre took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people. It continued at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.

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