Blacksburg, Va. – The building where a gunman killed 30 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus will be reopened for offices and laboratories, but it will never again be used for classrooms, the university announced Tuesday.
Norris Hall will open June 18 for the engineering science and mechanics and civil and environmental engineering departments.
They had been the primary occupants of the building April 16, when Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members on the Blacksburg campus.
Two victims were shot in a dormitory a few hours before the rest were attacked inside Norris Hall.
The second-floor classrooms in the three-story stone building where the victims were gunned down will remain closed.
“That wing is going to be shut down completely,” university spokesman Larry Hincker said.
