In room 211 of Intermediate French, Instructor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak and student Henry Lee were killed as they attempted to barricade the door while the professor yelled at students to get down on the floor and under their desks and call 9-1-1. Unfortunately, Cho pushed through the barricade and entered the room. For a distraction, a student named Matthew LaPorte, who was a trained Air Force ROTC cadet, charged towards the gunman and attempted to tackle him, but died after being struck seven times in an attempt to save his class. (LaPorte was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for his actions in 2015, which was accepted by his family at his gravesite in Blacksburg.) According to the Virginia Tech Review Panel's report and student Colin Goddard, eleven of the sixteen students died in room 211 and the six students who survived, all who suffered gunshot wounds, including Goddard and Kristina Anderson. One survivor, Clay Violand, stated that he played dead and escaped without injury as well as two other students. Cho later returned a second time.