Cho proceeded to Room 211 where Professor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak was teaching Intermediate French. Again, people attempt to block the door, but the Professor and another student were killed.
Students, including Zach Petkewicz, barricaded the door of room 205 with a large table after substitute professor Haiyan Cheng and a student saw Cho heading toward them. Cho shot several times through the door but failed to force his way in. No one in that classroom was wounded or killed.
Hearing the commotion on the floor below, Professor Kevin Granata brought twenty students from a nearby classroom into a third-floor office where the door could be locked. He then went downstairs to investigate and Cho fatally shot him. None of the students locked in Granata's office were injured.
Virginia Tech and Blacksburg police spent three minutes dashing across campus to the scene. They then began the process of assembling a team, clearing the area, and trying to break through the doors, which took another five minutes. After they blasted through the chained doors with shotguns, Cho put a bullet through his head and died in a classroom alongside thirty of his victims.
The Weapons
In total, Cho fired 174 rounds of ammunition. Each student killed was shot at least three times each.
The police enter the scene to find Cho dead and in possession of a 9mm semi-automatic and a .22 caliber handgun, as well as multiple rounds of ammunition and several knives. Among the items found in Cho's backpack was prescription medication for treatment of psychological problems and a note denouncing “rich kids.”
The following is a list of Students and Professors who were killed, God bless all of them:
Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., a sophomore majoring in English, Business Information Technology, and French.
Christopher James "Jamie" Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech and helped oversee an exchange program with a German university.
Brian Bluhm, 25, a master's student in water resources, received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at Tech.
Ryan Clark, 22, a student from Martinez, Ga., was a fifth-year student working toward a triple-degree in Psychology, Biology, and English, and carried a 4.0 grade-point average.
Austin Cloyd, 18, a freshman, was an International Studies major. Her father is C. Bryan Cloyd, a professor of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech.
Professor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, 49, a French instructor at Virginia Tech, was instrumental in the push to create the first French school in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, a Peruvian student and International Relations major.
Professor Kevin Granata, 46, head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics department.
Mathew Gregory Gwaltney, 24, of Chesterfield, Va., was on the brink of finishing his master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in International Studies and French.
Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, a graduate student in Civil engineering from Bellefonte, Pa. He did his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology at Penn State.
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18, was a graduate of Grove Avenue Christian School in Henrico County and was a freshman at Virginia Tech studying Biology.
Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, a freshman from Woodville and an animal and Poultry Sciences major, was known in rural Rappahannock County as an animal lover.
Jarrett Lane, 22, of Narrows, Va., a senior majoring in Civil Engineering.
Matt La Porte, 20, a sophomore, of Dumont, N.J.. He was majoring in Political Science and leadership.
Henry J. Lee, 20, studying Computer Engineering and French.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, an Israeli born in Romania, survived the Holocaust and built an international reputation for his research in aeronautical engineering. With the gunman set to enter his class, this brave professor blocked the door with his body while his students fled to safety.
Professor G.V. Loganathan, 51, an Indian-born Civil and Environmental Engineering professor.
Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34, of Medan Indonesia, a PhD student in Civil Engineering.
Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., a freshman in International Studies.
Daniel O'Neil, 22, a graduate student in Engineering from Lincoln, R.I., was a teaching assistant.
Juan Ortiz, 26, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, a master’s student in Civil Engineering.
Minal Panchal, 26, of Mumbai India, a master’s student in Architecture.
Erin Peterson, 18, from Centreville, Va., attended the same high school as the gunman. She was a freshman in International Studies.
Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., was a senior in a five-year program, majoring in Biological Sciences.
Julia Pryde, 23, a Biological Systems engineering graduate student from Middletown, N.J.
Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va., a freshman in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Reema Samaha, 18, of Centreville, Va., a freshman in Urban Planning.
Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, 32, of Zagazig, Egypt, was a doctoral student in Civil Engineering.
Leslie Sherman, 20, a sophomore from Springfield, Va., was a History and International Studies major.
Maxine Turner, 22, a senior from Vienna, Va., was a Chemical Engineering major.
Nicole White, 20, an International Studies major from Hampton Roads, Va.
Killer
Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student from South Korea. He was a senior English major at Virginia Tech
University of Texas
CLOCK TOWER SNIPER
August 1, 1966 (17) Dead (32) Injured
Perpetrator – Charles Whitman, an Engineering student
Background
Charles Joseph Whitman, born June 24, 1941, was a student at the University of Texas and a former Marine. He grew up in an upper-middle class family headed by a father who owned a successful plumbing business in Lake Worth, Florida. Whitman excelled academically and was well liked by his peers and neighbors. There were underlying dysfunctional issues within his family, however, that escalated in 1966 when his mother left his father and moved to Texas. The older Whitman was a controlling man who was known to become physically and emotionally abusive to his wife and children.