Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, a Peruvian student and International Relations major.
Professor Kevin Granata, 46, head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics department.
Mathew Gregory Gwaltney, 24, of Chesterfield, Va., was on the brink of finishing his master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in International Studies and French.
Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, a graduate student in Civil engineering from Bellefonte, Pa. He did his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology at Penn State.
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18, was a graduate of Grove Avenue Christian School in Henrico County and was a freshman at Virginia Tech studying Biology.
Emily Jane Hilscher, 19, a freshman from Woodville and an animal and Poultry Sciences major, was known in rural Rappahannock County as an animal lover.
Jarrett Lane, 22, of Narrows, Va., a senior majoring in Civil Engineering.
Matt La Porte, 20, a sophomore, of Dumont, N.J.. He was majoring in Political Science and leadership.
Henry J. Lee, 20, studying Computer Engineering and French.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, an Israeli born in Romania, survived the Holocaust and built an international reputation for his research in aeronautical engineering. With the gunman set to enter his class, this brave professor blocked the door with his body while his students fled to safety.
Professor G.V. Loganathan, 51, an Indian-born Civil and Environmental Engineering professor.
Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34, of Medan Indonesia, a PhD student in Civil Engineering.
Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., a freshman in International Studies.
Daniel O'Neil, 22, a graduate student in Engineering from Lincoln, R.I., was a teaching assistant.
Juan Ortiz, 26, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, a master’s student in Civil Engineering.
Minal Panchal, 26, of Mumbai India, a master’s student in Architecture.
Erin Peterson, 18, from Centreville, Va., attended the same high school as the gunman. She was a freshman in International Studies.
Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., was a senior in a five-year program, majoring in Biological Sciences.
Julia Pryde, 23, a Biological Systems engineering graduate student from Middletown, N.J.
Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va., a freshman in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Reema Samaha, 18, of Centreville, Va., a freshman in Urban Planning.
Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, 32, of Zagazig, Egypt, was a doctoral student in Civil Engineering.
Leslie Sherman, 20, a sophomore from Springfield, Va., was a History and International Studies major.
Maxine Turner, 22, a senior from Vienna, Va., was a Chemical Engineering major.
Nicole White, 20, an International Studies major from Hampton Roads, Va.
Killer
Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student from South Korea. He was a senior English major at Virginia Tech
University of Texas
CLOCK TOWER SNIPER
August 1, 1966 (17) Dead (32) Injured
Perpetrator – Charles Whitman, an Engineering student
Background
Charles Joseph Whitman, born June 24, 1941, was a student at the University of Texas and a former Marine. He grew up in an upper-middle class family headed by a father who owned a successful plumbing business in Lake Worth, Florida. Whitman excelled academically and was well liked by his peers and neighbors. There were underlying dysfunctional issues within his family, however, that escalated in 1966 when his mother left his father and moved to Texas. The older Whitman was a controlling man who was known to become physically and emotionally abusive to his wife and children.
Preliminary Activities
Charles Whitman's frustrations with his dysfunctional family were complicated by abuse of amphetamines and health issues including headaches. A glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain tumor, was discovered during Whitman’s autopsy. Experts have concluded that it may have played a role in his actions. Whitman was also affected by a court martial as a United States Marine, his failings as a student at the University of Texas, his ambitious personal expectations, and his psychotic mental state.
Several months prior to the shootings, he was summoned to Lake Worth, Florida, to pick up his mother who was filing for divorce from his father. The stress caused by the break-up of the family became the dominant discussion between Whitman and a psychiatrist at the University of Texas Health Center on March 29, 1966.
