Multimedia gallery: Tech's week of horror and healing

The Virginian-Pilot

Chaos at Virginia Tech
Emergency workers swarmed onto the campus Monday, April 16, carrying injured students to ambulances after a gunman opened fire there and, earlier, at a dorm across campus, killing 32 people before killing himself. (April 16, 2007)

Virginia Tech victims remembered
Students gathered across the campus of Virginia Tech the night of and the morning after the shootings to grieve and to remember the students and faculty members killed. (April 17, 2007)

Tech community gathers at convocation
President Bush and Gov. Tim Kaine joined students, faculty, staff and others Tuesday afternoon for a service in memory of those killed in the massacre. (April 17, 2007)

Candlelight vigil, prayers honor victims
Thousands attended a candlelight vigil Tuesday night on the campus of Virginia Tech, plus a prayer service on Wednesday, in remembrance of the victims. (April 18, 2007)

"Today we are all Hokies"
Across Hampton Roads on Friday, Virginia Tech alumni, students, parents and just Hokie-for-the-day residents wore the school's colors in remembrance of those slain on the campus. (April 20, 2007; with audio)
Related: "We are Virginia Tech" posters and computer wallpaper

Vigil at ODU embraces Virginia Tech victims
The Old Dominion University community, led by President Roseann Runte, gathered in Norfolk on Tuesday evening for a vigil in remembrance of the shooting victims at Tech. (April 18, 2007)

Thousands attend candlelight vigil at Tech
The Drillfield at Tech filled on Tuesday night with flowers, music, light and remembrances of slain fellow students. (April 18, 2007)

Virginia Tech janitor tells of encounter with gunman
Virginia Tech janitor Gene Cole tells his story of encountered shooter Cho Seung-Hui in Norris Hall. The gunman fired five shots in his direction, but Cole was not hit. (April 19, 2007)

900 gather in Suffolk to remember victim
Family members and friends filled Nansemond River Baptist Church in Suffolk on Sunday for a memorial service for Nicole Regina White. (April 22, 2007)
Related: More on all the victims

"Hokie Nation" begins to heal after tragedy
On Virginia Tech's Drillfield, stones were set up as memorials to each of the students and faculty members killed. This is a video tribute to those victims. (April 23, 2007)

"You never think that it would happen to your school"
Renee Bond, a graduate of Virginia Beach's Cox High School and an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, describes her reaction to the shootings. (April 16, 2007)

"The bullet grazed past my head ..."
Student Matt Webster describes his experience seeing the gunman enter his classroom Monday and start shooting. (April 19, 2007)

"The gunshots stopped, and then I heard the door handle jiggle"
Student Zach Petkewicz, who was in Norris Hall, describes how he and other students barricaded a door against the gunman. (April 19, 2007)

Graphic and map: How the shootings happened
A 3D-perspective campus map and a cutaway of Norris Hall, combined with eyewitness accounts, stories from the scene and a timeline, recount the details of that horrible day. (April 19, 2007)
Related: Seung-Hui Cho timeline / Cho profile and documents