(April 17, 2007)—Thousands of Virginia Tech students, faculty and Blacksburg, Va. area residents gathered Tuesday night on campus for a candlelight vigil after a long day of revelations about the gunman responsible for Monday’s deadly shootings and of remembrance of the 32 students who died. a day of remembrance on the Virginia Tech campus.

They held candles aloft as speakers urged them to find solace in one another.

Student affairs vice-president Zenobia Hikes vowed that everyone will move on, but that they must rely on each other.

Hikes also asked for the prayers of the world to survive.

Earlier Tuesday during a convocation in the school’s basketball arena, President Bush told a somber crowd, “People who have never met you are praying for you.''

Mr. Bush said he and First Lady Laura Bush have "hearts full of sorrow.''

He encouraged grieving students to reach out for help.

Quoting Scripture, he told those angered by the killings not to be overcome by evil.

He also said, ``It's hard to imagine a time will come when life at Virginia Tech will return to normal, but such a day will come.''

He said students will always remember the friends and teachers lost Monday "and the time you shared with them, and the lives that they hoped to lead."

A Virginia Tech spokesman says the gunman was "a loner and he says officials are having difficulty finding information about him.

The shooter was identified Tuesday morning as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, a senior from South Korea.

He was an English major and lived in a dorm on campus.

An official with the Department of Homeland Security says Cho was a permanent legal resident of the US.

Cho committed suicide after the attacks, the first at a dorm on campus, the second inside a classroom building.

His death brings the toll from the two separate shootings to 33.

Law enforcement officials say his fingerprints were found on the guns used in both shootings.

The serial numbers on the two weapons had been filed off.

One shooting victim told NBC Cho fired away in silence with ``no specific target --just taking out anybody he could.''

Virginia Tech officials have canceled classes for the rest of the week to give students a chance to mourn.

Norris Hall, the engineering building where Cho killed 30 before shooting himself, will be closed for the remainder of the semester.

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