Room 211 Virginia Tech
Five were in session.
Room 211 virginia tech. For me it is a single door. Austin cloyd an international relations and french major was 18 when she died in her room 211 french class in virginia tech s norris hall during the april 16 2007 shooting. Black chalkboard tile floor and metal school desks. Inside classroom 211 at virginia tech.
Colin remembers putting his hand up as the police entered to signal where he was and that he was alive. After the virginia tech attack bryan and renee cloyd accompanied students through the appalachia service project at virginia tech asp vt which renee helped launch. Rooms 204 205 206 207 and 211. The police immediately took emily outside where she was given emergency medical treatment.
According to the virginia tech review panel s report eleven of the sixteen students died in room 211 ross alameddine austin cloyd caitlin hammaren rachael hill henry lee matthew laporte daniel perez erin peterson mary read reema samaha and leslie sherman and the six students who survived including spokespeople and activists kristina anderson and colin goddard all suffered gunshot wounds 91 h. The class took place in room 211 on the second floor of norris hall. For others it is the image of terrified students running past heavily armed police. In the collective nightmare of the virginia tech massacre myriad images are seared into our minds.
Room 211 is the perfect class room for this french professor madame couture. Yesterday colin and hilary weren t ready to. For some it is the detached and blank expression of the killer seung hui cho. Madame couture is also a fitting name to be used in this story.
Over the next 15 minutes cho fired off more than 175 rounds and killed 30 people. It s your typical classroom. Twelve years ago kristina anderson nearly died in norris hall room 211 when a fellow virginia tech student carrying two handguns stormed in and opened fire killing several of her classmates. A deadly hush in room 211 then the killer returned mourners console each other by the casket of virginia tech freshman mary karen read 19 who was killed in last week s virginia tech shooting.
Witnesses say he was stone faced as he fired. Ten years after the second deadliest school shooting in us history during the second worst school massacre in us history one class room felt the full force of a gun man. Room 211 and the virginia tech shooting 4 16 2007 the above screenshots are from a news article about the events of room 211 during the virginia tech shooting which took place on 4 16 2007.