Report: Virginia Tech shootings cost $48.2 million
The true cost of the loss of more than 30 lives in the Virginia Tech massacre five years ago may never be known, but a report from the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates stricter gun control, calculates that the attack cost taxpayers $48.2 million.
That bill was picked up by the university, the state of Virginia, the local government, and the federal government in the form of three grants, the report says. The estimate costs of each aspect of the event and the subsequent changes to the university were assembled through public records and asking the university to compile information about any costs sustained as a direct result of the massacre.