Virginia Tech Tragedy: The Lives Lost

From the freshman with a "luminous smile" to the hero Holocaust survivor who helped save his students' lives, see the portraits of the victims

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JUAN RAMON ORTIZ, 26

Juan Ortiz was a newlywed who came with his wife to study at Virginia Tech as a graduate student in a civil engineering program. Ortiz hailed from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and was involved in the Latin American and Iberic Graduate Student Association on campus.