Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan was a 34-year-old Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering from Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. He was killed on April 16, 2007, while attending an Advanced Hydrology class at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

The classroom shooting was part of two separate attacks on the university campus that day. Lumbantoruan and Professor G.V. Loganathan, along with eight other students in that classroom, were among 32 victims who died in the massacre; numerous others were injured. The shooter, identified as 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, was armed with two pistols. The motive for the killings has not been clearly established.

Lumbantoruan’s body was returned to Indonesia and buried in Menteng Pulo public cemetery in South Jakarta. If anyone knew Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan or has information about his life and time at Virginia Tech, please share what is known.