Maxine "Max" Shelly Turner, age 22

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

Virginia Tech shooting
Maxine died along with Instructor Jamie Bishop and 3 other students in German class.

She was a Senior from Vienna, VA Majoring in Chemical Engineering (Honors Program)

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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