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Matthew Gwaltney

Case from Blacksburg, VA dated Apr 16, 2007

Victim Details

Matthew Gregory Matt Gwaltney

Male

White / Caucasian

Blacksburg

VA

2007-04-16

24

Matthew

Gwaltney

06/28/2026

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On a tragic spring day, April 16, 2007, the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the scene of a devastating event that cut short the promising life of Matthew Gregory Gwaltney. The 24-year-old male graduate student was among the 32 victims who lost their lives in a senseless act of violence that shook the nation. Gwaltney, a second-year master's student in Environmental Engineering from Chesterfield, Virginia, was in his Advanced Hydrology ...
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