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Derek O'Dell, a Roanoke County native and a sophomore at Virginia Tech, stands in a gazebo at the Duck Pond, where he often walks through an area designated as "Solitude." O'Dell, 22, has returned to class and continues recovering after being shot in the arm in Norris Hall.

A partial list of the wounded

Mark Owczarski, director of news for Virginia Tech, said the university now says 25 people were injured, based on reports from the state police. The list includes people hurt either by bullets or by jumping from windows to escape the gunfire. But Owczarski declined to identify any of the wounded. Nineteen have been identified in news accounts.

• Katelyn Carney
  Age: 21
  Status: Junior
  Major: International studies
  Hometown: Sterling, Va.

• Jamal Carver
  Age: 21
  Status: Senior
  Major: Engineering science and mechanics
  Hometown: Virginia Beach, Va.

• Guillermo Colman
  Age: 38
  Status: Graduate student
  Major: Civil engineering
  Hometown: Harrisonburg, Va.

• Allison Claire Cook
  Age: 19
  Major: Nutrition and food
  Hometown: Richmond

• Garrett Evans
  Age: 30
  Status: Senior
  Major: Economics and statistics
  Hometown: Chicago

• Colin Goddard
  Age: 21
  Status: Senior
  Major: International studies
  Hometown: Richmond

• John Wallace "Wally" Grant
  Age: 64
  Status: Faculty, Biomedical Engineering
  Hometown: Blacksburg, Va.

• Emily C. Haas
  Major: Business
  Hometown: Richmond

• Elilta M. "Lily" Habtu
  Major: Psychology
  Hometown: Woodbridge, Va.

• Kristina Heeger
  Status: Sophomore
  Major: International studies
  Hometown: Vienna, Va.

• Justin Klein
  Status: Junior
  Major: Mechanical engineering
  Hometown: Catonsville, Md.

• Sean T. McQuade
  Age: 21
  Status: Senior
  Major: Mathematics
  Hometown: Mullica Hill, N.J.

• Caroline Merrey
  Age: 22
  Hometown: Parkville, Md.

• Heidi Miller
  Age: 19
  Status: Freshman
  Major: Undeclared
  Hometown: Harrisonburg, Va.

• Derek O'Dell
  Age: 20
  Status: Sophomore
  Major: Biological sciences
  Hometown: Roanoke County

• Chang Min Park
  Age: 27
  Major: Civil engineering
  Hometown: Seoul, Korea

• Kevin Sterne
  Age: 22
  Status: Senior
  Major: Dual majors in electrical engineering and media communications
  Hometown: Eighty Four, Pa.

• Hilary Strollo
  Age: 19
  Status: Sophomore
  Major: Biological sciences
  Hometown: Gibsonia, Pa.

• Matthew Webster
  Age: 23
  Major: Engineering
  Hometown: Smithfield, Va.

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Katelyn Carney made it to her sister's wedding as maid of honor, wounded hand and all.

Lily Habtu is finally home after more than two weeks in two hospitals with gunshot wounds to the head and arm.

Derek O'Dell's right arm is out of a sling, and he and Caroline Merrey are back in class.

The wounded from the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech are mending physically, and doing their best to push through emotionally with exams under way and graduation four days off.

"I'm still trying to deal with everything that happened but at the same time I'm moving forward," Merrey said. "I can't just curl up and stop everything that I was doing."

The Rev. Bill King, a Lutheran campus chaplain, said many students are still stunned.

"When the numbness wears off, there will be some of the angry questions and despair," King said. "Right now, folks are just trying to get through the end of the semester. It is an interesting dynamic -- people's mind-set is 'let me limp through exams, lick my wounds and rejuvenate before I come back.' "

Mark Owczarski, director of news for Tech, said the university now says there are 25 people injured based on reports from the state police. The list includes people hurt either by bullets or by jumping from windows to escape the gunfire.

But Owczarski declined to identify any of the wounded.

"We cannot disclose medical information about any student, faculty and staff," he said. "It is all confidential."

Nineteen have been identified in news accounts, and some families are happy to report improvement.

Habtu, who was first treated for serious gunshot wounds to her head and right arm at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, went home to her parents' house in Woodbridge this week.

"She is sleeping," said her father, Michael Habtu. "So am I."

"She's doing good," added her mother, Kirditi Zemam.

The senior psychology major and dean's list student, who turned 22 three days before the shootings, is set to graduate this month.

Lily, whose given name is Elilta, came with her parents from Eritria in Africa as a baby. The nation, about the size of Indiana, was formerly the northernmost province of Ethiopia.

The Eritrian-American community in the Washington, D.C., area has rallied around Lily Habtu, said her cousin Kidane Habtesion.

He said his cousin is expected to need extensive reconstructive surgery, as well as intense physical and emotional recovery. He and others in the Eritrean-American circle have set up an account for those who wish to help the family with medical expenses.

Hilary Strollo, a freshman who was shot three times, has been readmitted to the hospital. She had been released from Montgomery Regional Hospital more than a week ago and returned with her family to their home in Gibsonia, Pa.

Earlier this week, she was rushed into emergency surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where both of her doctor-parents work. The surgery was prompted by an infection caused by multiple pieces of shrapnel, including in her liver. But Strollo's condition has since improved, according to her brother Patrick, a senior at Virginia Tech.

Other wounded victims have been able to press on with at least the trappings of a normal life much sooner.

Carney, a 21-year-old junior from Sterling, stood next to her sister, Amy, at Amy's wedding less than a week after the shootings.

Carney was shot through her left hand while helping to barricade a door to keep Seung-Hui Cho from re-entering a German class in Norris Hall where he'd already shot nearly every student.

Other members of the wedding party donned left-handed gloves in a show of support for Carney.

"She has bouts of sadness," said her father, Jim, last week from the family home in Sterling. "She's still in a bit of a fragile state. Her mother is staying with her in Blacksburg. We haven't let her alone for five minutes."

For O'Dell, a sophomore biology major from Roanoke County, the first class he attended after the shooting was a meeting of the very German class in which he was shot.

Just two or three of his classmates joined him for the class, which met in a small room in McBryde Hall.

O'Dell, 20, who also had a birthday three days before the shooting, was shot through the arm, but still worked with Carney and others to bar the door against Cho.

He said it would almost be an insult to their slain professor, Jamie Bishop, not to continue what he started.

O'Dell's return to campus has been accompanied by the uncomfortable celebrity of being a survivor, though he's less obvious without his sling. He's noticed people's eyes passing between his face and arm.

"You can see it going through their minds," he said.

He's no longer anonymous even in his largest classes, which ended Thursday for all students. "Now all my professors know me, so if I'm not there, they kind of worry about me."

Merrey not only returned to class when she could, but the 22-year-old from Parkville, Md., also never left campus. Less than two weeks after the shooting, she took an eight-hour fundamentals of engineering exam.

Merrey jumped from a window in Liviu Librescu's class to escape Cho and landed on her back. She was released from Montgomery Regional Hospital after X-rays were taken that day.

Librescu was killed after holding the door shut to keep Cho out long enough to allow students to get away.

"It was a second-story jump" but after seeing the window later "it looked a little higher than it did that day," Merrey said. "I'm really thankful I didn't have any more-severe injuries."

Merrey continued her coursework in all her classes except Librescu's, which was canceled.

"It seems like such a waste to spend so much time working on this and then say, at the end, 'Oh I can't do it,' " she said.

Staff writers Beth Macy and Pamela J. Podger contributed to this report.