Seung-Hui Cho

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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 on April 16, 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, using two semi-automatic pistols. 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. The killing is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, and was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. 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...

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