January 18, 1984 - Seung-Hui Cho
The Virginia Tech shooting remains the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. educational institution, and Cho carried it out in two separate attacks across campus within a single morning. His case prompted significant national debate over gaps in mental health reporting to federal firearms background check systems, as his documented psychiatric history had not disqualified him from legally purchasing the weapons he used. The scale of the attack and the institutional failures it exposed led to federal legislation reforming background check procedures.
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Seung-Hui Cho (; Korean: 조승희; [tɕo sɯŋhi] ; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007) was a South Korean mass murderer who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. This killing is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, and was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. A senior-level student of creative writing at the university, Cho died by suicide after police breached the doors of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall which Cho had locked with heavy chains, where most of the shooting had taken place.
Born in South Korea, Cho was eight years old when he immigrated to the United States with his family. He became a U.S. permanent resident as a South Korean national. At the time of the shooting, Cho had the legal status of resident alien. In middle school, he was diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder with selective mutism, as well as major depressive disorder.
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