virginia tech shootings, blacksburg, va., 2007

Lucinda Roy, an English professor at Virginia Tech, discusses the shooting that took place in April 2007, in which one of her students, Seung-Hui Cho, shot and killed thirty-two students and faculty members before ending his own life, and Roy describes Cho's prior behavior and her efforts to persuade him to seek counseling.

Examines the Virginia Tech University shootings in April 2007, describing the lives of both the killer and the victims, as well as the sociological problems surrounding school shootings.