The Uninjured Victims Of The Virginia Tech Shootings
Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history, which killed 32 people and wounded many others. Those who survived with no injuries carry emotional scars.
by Sarah McCammon
Apr 14, 2017
4 minutes
This weekend marks 10 years since the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history, at Virginia Tech.
Thirty-two people were killed and many others injured on April 16, 2007, on the campus in Blacksburg, Va. Still others witnessed the shooting and were physically unharmed, but carry psychological wounds that they've also spent the last decade recovering from.
Lisa Hamp walked out of her computer class alive that day, but she carries memories that will never go away. They begin, as most memories of tragedies do, with mundane details and normal moments in Hamp's classroom inside Norris Hall in the moments before the shooting.
"[We were] taking notes — typical computer science class. They're putting
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