<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>School Shootings: News &amp; Videos about School Shootings - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/School_Shootings</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about School Shootings from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:05:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>School Shootings: News &amp; Videos about School Shootings - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/CRIME/10/20/new.york.school.plot/tztop.monroe.hs.wabc.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/School_Shootings</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about School Shootings from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Teen accused of plot to attack school on Columbine anniversary</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/20/new.york.school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/20/new.york.school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 15-year-old boy remained in a psychiatric facility Tuesday after Monroe, New York, police arrested him in connection with a plot to attack his former high school on the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, police said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Man obsessed with Columbine convicted of murder</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/21/north.carolina.castillo.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/21/north.carolina.castillo.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man who was obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre was found guilty of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole for gunning down his father before opening fire at a North Carolina high school three years ago.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gym shooter bought from sites that sold to college gunmen</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/07/gym.shooting.merchandise/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/07/gym.shooting.merchandise/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A company that sold firearms merchandise to the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University shooters also sold firearm accessories to a man who fatally shot three women in a Pennsylvania gym earlier this week.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Governor to review Virginia Tech shooting report</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/28/virginia.tech.families/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/28/virginia.tech.families/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine agreed Tuesday to review the report examining the deadly 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech and to correct any errors based on what has been learned since its publication.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Governor: Shooter's Virginia Tech mental health files found</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/virginia.tech.cho.records/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/22/virginia.tech.cho.records/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The university mental health files of Seung-Hui Cho, the man who went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in 2007, were recently discovered, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nothing the same after Columbine, say students, teachers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/20/columbine.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/20/columbine.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Jennifer Muzquiz was "goth" in high school. She had, and still has, multicolored hair, a "face full of piercings," and an all-black wardrobe, even though she no longer identifies with the goth subculture. And while her style had always earned her her fair share of strange glances, she says everything changed for the worse after the Columbine school shootings on April 20, 1999.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands mark 10th anniversary of Columbine shootings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/20/columbine.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/20/columbine.anniversary/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Several thousand people poured into the amphitheater at Robert F. Clement Park Monday for an event memorializing the victims of the Columbine shootings on the 10-year anniversary of that tragic event.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbine left its indelible mark on pop culture</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/04/20/columbine.pop.culture/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/04/20/columbine.pop.culture/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The massacre of students and a teacher within the seemingly safe hallways of Columbine High School reverberated so strongly that its reflection can be found in the creations of multiple artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers over the past decade.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbine massacre changed school security</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/20/columbine.school.safety/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/20/columbine.school.safety/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In the wake of the tragic shootings at Columbine High School, some schools across the country turned themselves into near-fortresses.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two killed in Michigan college shooting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/mich.college.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/mich.college.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two people were shot and killed Friday at a community college in Dearborn, Michigan, in what police believe was a murder-suicide, an official said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Major deadly attacks at schools</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/school.massacres/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/11/school.massacres/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A shooting rampage by a 17-year-old former student that has left at least 10 dead at a school in Winnenden, Germany is the latest in a series of attacks in education institutions. Here some of the major incidents.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parents seek answers in NIU killings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/13/niu.victim.family/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/13/niu.victim.family/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eric Mace says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice by asking her to sit up front in class.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennsylvania teen charged with plotting to kill school enemies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/09/school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/09/school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Pennsylvania teen has been charged as an adult for allegedly planning to kill classmates he did not like before turning the gun on himself in a high school shooting spree, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Threats Spark Panic Among Students in Finland</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844374,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1844374,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Bomb threats and a flurry of menacing mobile phone messages sparked panic Thursday among students in Finland, as fears grew that copycat attacks would follow the nation's second school massacre in 10 months</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Finnish police identify massacre victims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/24/finland.school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/24/finland.school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in Finland have identified the 10 victims in Tuesday's college shooting as eight female students, a male student and a male teacher.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Finnish gunman kills 10 at college</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/23/finland.school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/23/finland.school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Ten people were killed Tuesday when a gunman rampaged through a Finnish college, police officials said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunman Kills 9 at School in Finland, Then Self</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843568,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843568,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to bring him in for questioning opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in western Finland, killing nine people before shooting himself in the head</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colleges Using Self-Defense Training</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836614,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1836614,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gun seller offering discounts to 'save lives'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/24/va.tech.niu/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/24/va.tech.niu/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The owner of a company that sold firearm merchandise to both the Virginia Tech University and Northern Illinois University shooters said he will sell his guns at cost for the next two weeks in hopes that "law-abiding" citizens will buy them to prevent similar tragedies.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ignoring Virginia Tech</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1731195,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1731195,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A year after the massacre, there has been much talk but little real action to prevent such a tragedy from recurring</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Student's view of campus safety</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/15/vt.oneal/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/15/vt.oneal/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>College students are faced with many challenges each day. It's tough to balance a job with hours of homework, and to pay attention in class while planning an escape route from a lecture hall seat.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Students want chance to defend themselves</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/14/campus.guns/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/14/campus.guns/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>"Would you rather just sit there and cower underneath a desk when someone executes you or would you rather have a chance to defend your life? That's what it really boils down to."</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mom saw warning signs in son who planned shooting spree</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/11/boudreau.campus.rage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/11/boudreau.campus.rage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It was just 2½ years ago when Elaine Sonnen found out that her 16-year-old son, Richard, had been planning a Columbine-style attack at his high school.</description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mom fears teen son who plotted Columbine-style attack</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/10/boudreau.campus.rage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/10/boudreau.campus.rage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On a 45-acre farm in a tiny town surrounded by snow-capped mountains, Elaine Sonnen lives in fear of her own son.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Site of fatal NIU shootings to be demolished</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/27/niu.building/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/27/niu.building/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Utah students hide guns, head to class</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/20/cnnu.guns/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/20/cnnu.guns/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The senior at the University of Utah gets dressed and then decides which gun is easiest to conceal under his clothes. </description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Company: Gunman, Virginia Tech shooter used same Web dealer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/15/university.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/15/university.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A firearms dealer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Friday confirmed a bizarre link between the graduate student accused of killing five people at Northern Illinois University and the gunman in last year's deadly shootings at Virginia Tech.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mental health record submissions for gun checks on the rise</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/29/gun.checks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/29/gun.checks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN Heroes: Everyday Superhero</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/10/cnn.heroes.archive/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/10/cnn.heroes.archive/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Everyday Superheroes: Spontaneous acts of courage in the face of danger by members of the public.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police: New school attack thwarted</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/20/germany.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/20/germany.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police say they have shut down a high school in northern Germany after receiving a tip that a gunman planned a rampage there.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Attack on German high school prevented, police say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/18/germany.school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/18/germany.school.plot/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>German police announced Sunday they stopped two teenagers from carrying out a rampage at their Cologne high school and that one of the students committed suicide after being confronted.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Finnish school shooter linked to U.S. teen </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/12/school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/12/school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Pennsylvania teen jailed on suspicion of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school exchanged e-mail with the disturbed student who killed eight people in a similar shooting in Finland, the boy's lawyer said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Finland in mourning after fatal school shooting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/08/school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/08/school.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Flags in Finland were flying at half-staff Thursday and government workers observed three minutes of silence a day after a teenager opened fire at his high school, killing eight people before fatally turning the gun on himself.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>7 Dead in Finland School Shooting</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1681423,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1681423,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>At least seven people were killed Wednesday after an 18-year-old man opened fire at a high school in southern Finland</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ohio school shooter gave many warnings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/cleveland.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/cleveland.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fellow students say they and school authorities didn't take Asa Coon's threats of violence seriously before the 14-year-old's shooting rampage at his Cleveland high school on Wednesday. </description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Warnings could have saved lives at Virginia Tech, report says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/vtech.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/vtech.investigation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Better information by officials might have saved lives in the Virginia Tech massacre, an investigation into the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history found.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When Shyness Turns Deadly</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654095,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654095,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A new study of school shootings isolates the traits of "cynical shyness" that can lead to violence</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lessons of Virginia Tech</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651473_1651472_1650464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651473_1651472_1650464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>As students return to the campus, a debate continues over how schools should handle students in distress</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A brother's suicide sparks a need to help</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/pysk.malmon/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/pysk.malmon/index.html</guid><description>On a Friday afternoon in March 2000, University of Pennsylvania freshman Alison Malmon came in from studying outdoors with friends, and her world crashed around her.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 18:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your comments: Our readers write back</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/07/your.comments/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/07/your.comments/index.html</guid><description>Here is a selection of recent comments from CNN.com users about  news coverage and other issues related to the site. If you have something to say about CNN.com, please e-mail us.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 14:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When does a state disarm the mentally ill?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/25/guns.mentallyill/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/25/guns.mentallyill/index.html</guid><description>The shootings at Virginia Tech last week have renewed focus on gun control, specifically in cases of the mentally ill. The question at issue: When does a state have the right to intervene, ultimately determining whether a resident is mentally fit to bear arms?</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Heroes of the Virginia Tech massacre</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/vatech.heroes/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/vatech.heroes/index.html</guid><description>When student gunman Seung-Hui Cho went on a rampage at Virginia Tech, killing 32 people before turning a gun on himself, students and teachers had to make split-second decisions.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cho's high school classmates recall 'kid who never spoke'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/20/shooter.childhood/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/20/shooter.childhood/index.html</guid><description>Cho Seung-Hui's classmates at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, had a few nicknames for him.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Across U.S., copycat threats keeping schools on edge</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.threats/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.threats/index.html</guid><description>Law enforcement agencies across the nation have received as many as 40 copycat threats to schools since Monday's Virginia Tech massacre, according to the FBI.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mom: My son was in the room when Cho killed himself</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.victims/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.victims/index.html</guid><description>Colin Goddard was mere inches from killer Cho Seung-Hui during Monday's massacre, and he heard the gunman end his own life after killing at least 30 people, Goddard's mother said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia Tech victim's loved ones fight to tell his story</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.herbstritt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.herbstritt/index.html</guid><description>Schoolmates and relatives painted a portrait of Virginia Tech victim Jeremy Herbstritt as a friendly, talkative and passionate man, in stark contrast to his killer Cho Seung-Hui, the deeply troubled and quiet loner.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbine survivor: Expect an emotional roller coaster</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/19/shooting.columbine.survivor/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/19/shooting.columbine.survivor/index.html</guid><description>As Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson got ready for bed Monday night, she planned an escape route from her Tuesday morning theology class at Denver Seminary. The 25-year-old Columbine survivor wanted to be ready.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prof cared for 'students as if they were his own children'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.loganathan/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.loganathan/index.html</guid><description>He was the professor who loved debating an equation with his students for hours. A civil and environmental engineer regarded as brilliant, his humility defined him. He once told his wife, "There are people who are better than me," as he tucked his prestigious awards inside his closet.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shooter: 'You have blood on your hands'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.nbc/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.nbc/index.html</guid><description>Cho Seung-Hui sent a multi-media package to NBC News that stated "you had a hundred billion chances and ways to avoid today" and now "you have blood on your hands."</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia Tech killer a self-described 'question mark'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/cho.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/cho.profile/index.html</guid><description>Cho Seung-Hui, the student behind Monday's massacre on the Virginia Tech campus, described himself as a "question mark" who had an imaginary girlfriend, his roommates say.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two more shooting victims released from hospital</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.victims/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.victims/index.html</guid><description>Twelve victims of Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech remained hospitalized Wednesday night.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>South Korea shocked by U.S. shooting link</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/17/vatech.seoul/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/04/17/vatech.seoul/index.html</guid><description>South Koreans expressed shock Wednesday, as new details revealed that the Virginia Tech shooter was Cho Seung-Hui, who was born -- and lived for eight years -- in Seoul.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Death and violence are not rites of passage</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/Dobbs.April18/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/Dobbs.April18/index.html</guid><description>Our country is in shock at the slaughter of 32 Virginia Tech students and teachers. Our national consciousness will be dominated for days by the senseless deaths and the wounding of dozens more on Virginia Tech's campus.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia Tech police chief praised for calm leadership</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/flinchum.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/flinchum.profile/index.html</guid><description>When the hunt for a jail escapee shut down the Virginia Tech campus last August, then-interim police Chief Wendell Flinchum won praise for his calm demeanor and decision-making.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Source: Gunman angry at 'rich kids'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/cho.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/cho.profile/index.html</guid><description>The gunman in Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech was Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior English major from Centreville, Virginia, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia Tech shootings timeline</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/timeline.text/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/timeline.text/index.html</guid><description>At least 33 people, including a gunman, were killed Monday during shootings in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech, university officials said. Here is a timeline of the events of the morning, according to university officials and eyewitness accounts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: 'I just cannot believe it'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.reader.feedback/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.reader.feedback/index.html</guid><description>At least 31 people were killed Monday in two shootings at Virginia Tech, according to a state official, making it the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Professor: Shooter's writing dripped with anger</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html</guid><description>A year and a half before before Cho Seung-Hui went on a deadly shooting spree on the campus of Virginia Tech, a professor was so concerned about his anger that she took him out of another teacher's creative writing class and taught him one-on-one.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>University alerted students via e-mail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/university.emails/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/university.emails/index.html</guid><description>At least 33 people, including a gunman, were killed Monday during shootings in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech, university officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Witness survives by pretending to be dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html</guid><description>A gunman who killed at least 30 people in one of two shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech was dressed "almost like a Boy Scout," said a student who survived by pretending to lie dead on a classroom floor.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Donors pitch in to help grieving Amish community</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/06/amish.donations/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/06/amish.donations/index.html</guid><description>More than $550,000 has poured in from around the world to help an Amish community recover from a schoolhouse shooting Monday in which five girls were killed and five others seriously injured, according to an agency managing the donations.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fifth girl dies after Amish school shooting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/index.html</guid><description>A heavily armed truck driver who was prepared for a long standoff barricaded himself in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, killing five girls execution-style before killing himself, police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>School shooting suspect charged with killing father</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/30/school.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/30/school.shooting/index.html</guid><description>A 19-year-old who was taken into custody following a school shooting Wednesday afternoon was charged with killing his father earlier in the day, according to the Orange County, North Carolina, sheriff's office.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kansas students charged in alleged plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/24/kansas.plot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/24/kansas.plot/index.html</guid><description>The oldest of five students charged in what prosecutors call a failed plot at a Kansas high school can be released under house arrest after his parents post a $50,000 bond, the judge ruled during a hearing Monday afternoon.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Juvenile arrested in Minnesota shootings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/28/school.shooting/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/28/school.shooting/index.html</guid><description>A juvenile has been arrested in connection with last week's school shootings in Red Lake, Minnesota, authorities said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Town prepares to bury Minnesota victims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/minnesota.school/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/minnesota.school/index.html</guid><description>Gifts of money, e-mails with condolences and offers of counseling services flooded an Indian tribe here as it prepared for the funerals of nine victims of a school shooting.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbine principal: Students gave me strength</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/04/20/columbine.deangelis/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/04/20/columbine.deangelis/index.html</guid><description>A public memorial and candlelight prayer vigil marks Tuesday's five-year anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. On April 20, 1999, two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 of their classmates, a teacher and then themselves.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>