Sam Dean

photojournalism: April 16, Virginia Tech

On April 16th, 2007 Virginia Tech was the site of the most brutal shooting in U.S. history. This is a visual telling of the efforts of the community to cope hours, days, weeks in months that terrible day.

A student weeps while listening to Governor Tim Kaine speak at Virginia Tech. The day after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, students, victims and the community gathered at a memorial at Cassell Coliseum on Virginia Tech Campus Tuesday, April 17, 2007