Thousands of Virginia Tech graduates struggled to balance joy with grief at ceremonies held less than a month after a student gunman’s rampage devastated the university campus.

Victims of the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech college in the United States were “graduating” alongside their classmates tonight.

Sun-Kyung Cho, sister of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho has released the following statement in response to the worst school shooting massacre in the history of the U.S.