Va. Tech Gunman Fired 170-Plus Shots
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman who carried out the massacre at Virginia Tech fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes and died with a bullet to his head in a classroom surrounded by his victims, authorities said Wednesday.
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Police provided new details about the case at a news conference on the Virginia Tech campus, but they said investigators still don't know what set the gunman off.
"We talk about possible motives and theories and whatnot, but we don't have any evidence to suggest anything," said State Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty.
He said investigators had compiled 500 piece of evidence from Norris Hall alone.
Seung-Hui Cho chained shut three public entrances to Norris Hall before starting his rampage through the classrooms where he killed 30 students and teachers, police said. Two hours earlier, he had gunned down his first victims in a dormitory across campus.
Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no......
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