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Virginia Tech shooting

shooting on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Summary

Virginia Tech shooting is a university shooting[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of university shooting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,193 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Virginia[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: murder–suicide[5], mass murder[6], mass shooting[7]
  • Location: Virginia Tech[8]
  • Commons category: Virginia Tech massacre[9]
  • Located in time zone: UTC−04:00[10]
  • Armament: Glock 19[11], Walther P22[12]
  • Target: Virginia Tech[13]
  • Point in time: April 16, 2007[14]
  • Coordinate location: 37.2294, -80.4231[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Virginia Tech shooting[16]
  • Commons gallery: Virginia Tech massacre[17]
  • Number of deaths: 33[18]
  • Number of injured: 25[19]
  • Different from: Death of Deriek Wayne Crouse[20]
  • Number of perpetrators: 1[21]
  • Perpetrator: Seung-Hui Cho[22]

Why It Matters

Virginia Tech shooting has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Seung-Hui Cho United States Virginia Virginia Tech

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of perpetrators → {'amount': '+1'}
    Armament → Glock 19, Walther P22
    Different from → Death of Deriek Wayne Crouse
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: Death of Deriek Wayne Crouse, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 17w ago · QwertyZ34 · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Perpetrator → Seung-Hui Cho
    Participant → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Participant: Seung-Hui Cho"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → Virginia Tech
    Instance of → university shooting, murder–suicide, mass murder +1
    Country → United States
    Target → Virginia Tech
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007566528905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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