page_title: Timeline of the Virginia Tech shooting
section_title: 2007
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Virginia Tech shooting / Background / 2007
caption_attribution_description: English: Norris Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Español: Edificio Norris Hall, correspondiente a la carrera de ingeniería del Virginia Tech, donde el 16 de abril de 2007 murieron 30 de las 32 víctimas, así como el propio tirador, durante la llamada Masacre del Virginia Tech.
context_page_description: This timeline of events from the Virginia Tech shooting lists times in Eastern Daylight Time.
  The official timeline was compiled by TriData Corp, a division of defense contractor System Planning Corp., for use by the eight-member panel appointed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
context_section_description: Friday, February 2
  Cho ordered a handgun online. He purchased the .22 caliber Walther P22 on the Internet from TGSCOM, Inc.
  Friday, February 9
  Cho picked up the 0.22 caliber Walther P22 from J-N-D Pawnbrokers pawnshop in Blacksburg, Virginia across the street from the school.
  March
  Cho stayed in a Roanoke motel and hired a dancer, Chastity Frye, for a one-hour performance.
  Monday, March 12
  Cho rented a burgundy Kia Sedona van from Enterprise Rent-A-Car at the Roanoke Regional Airport that he kept for almost a month. Cho videotaped some of his diatribe in the van.
  Tuesday, March 13
  Cho purchased a 9 millimeter Glock 19 handgun and a $10 box of 50 9-mm full metal jacket ammunition.
  Thursday, March 22
  Cho showed up at the PSS Range, an indoor pistol range in Roanoke, and spent an hour practicing, buying four ammunition magazines for the Glock 19. Range employees, investigators later said, remembered a young Asian man videotaping himself inside a van in the parking lot.
  Using the handle "blazers5505" on eBay, Cho purchased two 10-round magazines for the Walther P22 from "Bullelk14"
  Friday, March 23
  Cho purchased three additional 10-round magazines from "oneclickshooting", another eBay seller located in Fremont, Nebraska.
  Late March, (exact date uncertain)
  Cho rented a room in another local hotel and was visited by a dancer from an escort service.
  Saturday, March 31 (April 7, 8 and 13)
  Cho purchased additional ammunition and a hunting knife from Wal-Mart.
   Unknown date  
  Cho purchased additional ammunition magazines from Dick's Sporting Goods and chains from a Home Depot.
   Early April (date unknown) 
  Cho returns the rented minivan to its owner.
  Sunday, April 8
  Cho spent the night at the Hampton Inn in Christiansburg, Virginia, videotaping segments for his manifesto-like diatribe.
  Friday, April 13
  Bomb threats to Torgersen, Durham, and Whittemore Halls were called in anonymously.  An additional bomb threat, this time to engineering school buildings, was found at the shooting scene at Norris Hall. A written bomb threat similar to the ones that were phoned in was found in Suite 2121 of Harper Hall, Cho's dormitory room.
  Saturday, April 14
  Witnesses saw a "suspicious looking man with a hooded sweatshirt" near the entrance to Norris Hall, and some of the doors chained shut around the same time.
  Sunday, April 15
  Cho phoned his family in Fairfax County.
caption: Norris Hall, where 30 of the 32 victims had died.
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