Sending prayers for everyone effected by this tragedy.

Fellow Virginians are going to wear burgandy and orange to pay tribute to those lost and injured.


Blacksburg, VA - Here is a list of some of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. We will be adding to this list as more names are made known.

Killed:
Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Massachusetts, according to his mother, Lynnette Alameddine.

-- Christopher James Bishop, 35, according to Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany, where he helped run an exchange program.

-- Brian Bluhm, 25, a civil engineering graduate student, according to an announcement by the Detroit Tigers and friends.

-- Ryan Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., biology and English major, according to Columbia County Coroner Vernon Collins.

-- Austin Cloyd, age unknown, an international studies major from Blacksburg, Va., according to Terry Harter, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Champaign, Ill., where Cloyd and her family lived before moving to Blacksburg.

-- Jocelyn Couture-Nowak, a French instructor, according to her husband, Jerzy Nowak, the head of the horticulture department at Virginia Tech.

-- Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, killed in his French class, according to his mother, Betty Cueva, of Peru.

-- Kevin Granata, age unknown, engineering science and mechanics professor, according to Puri.

-- Matthew G. Gwaltney, 24, of Chester, Va., a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, according to his father and stepmother, Greg and Linda Gwaltney.

-- Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in international studies and French, according to Minisink Valley, N.Y., school officials who spoke with Hammaren's family.

-- Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, of Bellefonte, Pa., according to Penn State University, his alma mater and his father's employer.

-- Rachael Hill, 18, of Glen Allen, Va., according to her father, Guy Hill.

-- Emily Jane Hilscher, a 19-year-old freshman from Woodville, according to Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy, a family friend.

-- Jarrett L. Lane, 22, of Narrows, Va., according to Riffe's Funeral Service Inc. in Narrows, Va.

-- Matthew J. La Porte, 20, a freshman from Dumont, N.J., according to Dumont Police Chief Brian Venezio.

-- Liviu Librescu, 76, engineering science and mathematics lecturer, according to Ishwar K. Puri, the head of the engineering science and mechanics department.

-- G.V. Loganathan, 51, civil and environmental engineering professor, according to his brother G.V. Palanivel.

-- Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34, of Indonesia, civil engineering doctoral student, according to Kristiarto Legowo, a spokesman for the Indonesian foreign ministry.

-- Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., international studies major, according to a statement from the family.

-- Daniel O'Neil, 22, according to close friend Steve Craveiro and according to Eric Cardenas of Connecticut College, where O'Neil's father, Bill, is director of major gifts.

-- Juan Ramon Ortiz, a 26-year-old graduate student in engineering from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, according to his wife, Liselle Vega Cortes.

-- Minal Panchal, 26, a first-year building-science student from Mumbai, India, according to foregin ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna.

-- Erin Peterson, 18, of Chantilly, Va., an international studies major, according to her father, Grafton Peterson, in a story in the Washington City Paper.

-- Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., according to officials at his high school, Hunterdon Central High.

-- Julia Pryde, age unknown, a graduate student from Middletown, N.J. according to Virginia Tech professor Saied Mostaghimi, chairman of the biological systems and engineering department.

-- Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va. according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, New York.

-- Reema J. Samaha, 18, a freshman, according to her family.

-- Leslie Sherman, a sophomore history and international studies student from Springfield, Va., according to her grandmother Gerry Adams.

-- Maxine Turner, 22, a senior majoring in chemical engineering from Vienna, Va., according to her father, Paul Turner.

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it is just so terribly sad...

This hit so close to home. You always think well it wouldn't happen here. Well it can happen anywhere at anytime. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at VA TECH. It's going to be hard for these kids to get back into their schooling esp. with a month or so left for them.

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My Daughter Went To School With Ross From Saugus Ma And This Is So Devastating For All But Especially When You Know One Of The Victims It Really Hits Home. Sorry For All The Caps Too Lazy To Re-type

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Without Health you have no Wealth!

7 of the victims plus the coward who did this are from Northern VA, that makes 1/4 of the victims from our area.

I used to work with Reema's father 11 or so years ago. Another one not listed but confirmed deceased is Erin Peterson she was Reema's best friend in High School and a very awesome basketball player at the High School, so I knew of her from local newspapers.

The irony if thats the right word is that those two girls and the coward Cho Seung Hui all went to the same High School , Westfields in Chantilly Va also last year in May a 18 yr old named Micheal Kennedy went into a local Police Substation and shot it up killing two officers, he also went to school there and locally they have found a lot of similiarities between Michael and Cho, both loners or outcasts, weird writings etc.

I noticed the High Schoolers as they went to the bus-stop today and yesterday a lot are wearing VT stuff or Maroon and Orange.

Last night our awesome baseball team the Washington Nationals wore VT hats the whole game to honor the victims.

The healing is going take time, Graduation at VT is in 2 weeks, and they have shut down Norris Hall until next year and I have a gut that they will rename it and reconfigure it.

I still cant watch too much TV because they keep breaking in with news coverage about it and I cant help but cry.

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Daltonmama-

Thank you for posting the names. Would it be too much for you to keep the top post updated with all the names as they are realeased? This is such a sad story.

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You laugh at me because I am different,
I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.

I will gladly do it.

Today, there was a bomb threat at Virginia Tech. . . which no bomb was found. But good grief, I wish these folks would get a life! I mean of all things to do after such a tragedy.

Keep praying!

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Edited to include 29 of the 32 names that have now been released.

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