Austin Michelle Cloyd, age 18

Lost to gun violence on April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Virginia Tech shooting
Austin died along with Prof. Couture-Nowak and 10 other students in French class.

Austin was born in Charlotte, NC, and lived in
Bloomington, IN, Austin, TX and Champaign, IL.
He went to High School at Centennial in Champaign, IL and Blacksburg in Blacksburg, VA - Class of 2006

Virginia Tech shooting: A 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two pistols, a Glock 19 and a Walther P22, killed thirty-two students and faculty members at Virginia Tech and wounded another seventeen students and faculty members in two separate attacks before committing suicide.

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