Apr 17 2007 5:56PMCOLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University graduate was among the 32 people who were killed by a gunman on the Virginia Tech University campus Monday morning.
Dr. Kevin P. Granata was listed among the victims Tuesday morning. Granata was an engineering science and mechanics professor at Virginia Tech, according to Ishwar K. Puri, the head of the school's engineering science and mechanics department.
According to his biography on the Virginia Tech Web site, Granata received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in 1993 and was a research scientist in Columbus from 1993-97. Granata also graduated from Ohio State in 1984 with a Bachelor's of Science degree in engineering physics and electrical engineering.
Granata was a great bio-engineering professor, but to his former colleagues at Ohio State, he was a dear friend.
"We'd sit in this office for hours and have these wonderful conversations about where the field was going, what needed to be done, and how you'd going about doing it," said Dr. Bill Marras, OSU Biodynamics Lab.
Marras told 10TV he emailed his friend the minute he learned of the shootings, to make sure he was okay.
"I didn't hear back from him, so I called his wife about 5 p.m. last night and at that time she hadn't heard from him," Marras said.
Granata was married and had three children, ages 14, 10 and 8, 10TV News reported.
Granata's office was located in Norris Hall, the site where a gunman wielding two handguns and carrying multiple clips of ammunition stormed the building.
The classroom shooter was later identified as Cho-Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from South Korea who was in the English department at Virginia Tech and lived in a different dorm on campus. Cho committed suicide after the attacks, and there was no indication Tuesday of any possible motive.
Granata also spent time at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and Wake Forest University, according to the Virginia Tech Web site.
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Reported by Angela An
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