Killer is identified.
The killer is found. Concerns of his writings has been raised, but was not taken seriously. Things have happened, and suddenly everybody becomes the psychologists. Everyone suddenly seems to be able to spot tell-tale signs of what's happening.
Why wasn't he stopped earlier? Why do we always come to spot this tell-tale signs, only after the incident has happened? Why...?
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Below is an excerpt from my message posted on the MSNBC website, message no. 1089:
I am greatly disturbed and truly saddened by this incident. I would like to express my deepest condolences for those who has lost their loved ones in this incident; including the parents of the shooter, who has lost their child, to depression and societal outcasting.
It seems that he could have been saved and many lives would not have been lost if he had friends or even just one good friend that he could confide in. No warning signs, loner.
It was all these that led to this incident. In the wake of the shooting, I pray that all casualties and those who lost their loved ones, would be able to recover from this incident as soon as possible, even though it might be a long time before they can really recover from this shock.
-Brian
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Extract from CNN, The Killer:
The Making of a Mass Killer
By JOHN CLOUD
The man who murdered at least 30 people at Virginia Tech and wounded at least 14 others in the nation's worst shooting massacre was a 23-year-old South Korean named Cho Seung-Hui. Cho, an English major, had likely planned his attack for weeks and had written two bizarre plays in which boys accuse authority figures of graphic molestation.
This morning the Virginia Tech police chief, Wendell Flinchum, held out the possibility that a second shooter might have been involved. He said authorities could not definitively say that Cho killed a man and a woman in a dorm earlier Monday morning in addition to the 30 slaughtered in a classroom building called Norris Hall. But Cho's fingerprints were found on a gun used in both buildings.
Cho fatally shot himself — badly disfiguring his face — before police could engage him, but officials were able to identify him hours later from the fingerprints in his immigration documents, according to ABC News.
Cho was born in
A neighbor of the Chos, retired stockbroker Marshall Main, told TIME that six police cars pulled up to their house Monday night and spent 90 minutes inside.
An AOL employee who says he is a former classmate of Cho's provided AOL News with copies of two plays Cho wrote. They are achingly bad, the writings of a troubled young man; they suggest that Cho may have been sexually abused. In both plays, a schoolboy named John says he has been molested — in one case by his stepfather and, in a play Cho titled Mr. Brownstone, by the eponymous teacher. The John character in both plays repeatedly wishes his tormentor dead, although the molester in the play Richard McBeef kills John with his bare hands in the end.
Cho had recently developed an interest in firearms. According to a Roanoke, Va., news site, a police affidavit says Cho possessed Walther P22 and Glock 9 mm handguns — both expensive, accurate guns favored by gun enthusiasts and cops. One federal source told TIME it appears that as many as "a couple of hundred" rounds were fired during the rampage. Cho's extraordinary killing effectiveness suggests someone who was trained, or who trained himself, in "execution-style" killing, according to the federal source.
Cho legally purchased his first gun, the 9 mm, along with a box of 50 bullets about five weeks ago from a local gun shop, according to the
An affidavit state police filed to search Cho's dorm room (2121 Harper Hall) suggests Cho had been planning mayhem for some time. It says that a note containing a bomb threat was found near his body; the note is similar to two other bomb threats issued against engineering buildings at the school last week. Cho may have probed the campus emergency response with the previous notes.
The affidavit said he is believed to have possessed "multiple guns including but not limited to" the Walther and the Glock. Investigators are still looking for Cho's motives, but Cho left a discursive note in his dorm room that offered some explanations. The only full quote released so far is this cryptic line: "You caused me to do this. "But the note also assails "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus.
Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university's English department, told the AP that "there was some concern about him." She said his writing was disturbing enough that Cho had been referred to the university counseling service, but she said she didn't know what the outcome was.
During the shootings, students and university employees dodged bullets and huddled together. Tom Murphy, a 19-year-old freshman, was locked in a Robinson Hall classroom from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. He and the 11 students, some strangers, held hands and prayed on bended knee. Like many others, Murphy had a cell phone, but the lines were jammed, and he couldn't get through.
State Police said the victims in Norris Hall were found in four classrooms and a stairwell. Cho's corpse was found in one of those classrooms.
Today President Bush and the First Lady attended a convocation in memory of the lost that was remarkably lively. Those in attendance gave university president Charles Steger an extended round of applause; Steger has come under fire for the university's decision not to do more to warn students early Monday that two students had been killed. Bush kept his remarks brief: "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said of the dead. with reporting by Elaine Shannon, Michael Duffy, Tracy Samantha Schmidt and Caitlin Sullivan/Blacksburg,
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Inside Cho Seung-Hui's Dorm
Harper hall is nothing special, a four-story stone dorm on the south side of the Virginia Tech campus, small by comparison to its neighbors on the outside and on the inside today, quiet — just the way Cho Seung-hui had liked things.
A reporter was able to enter and go up to the second floor wing where Cho lived. It's a nondescript place: students live two to a room in three-room suites, each of the suites attached to a smallish common area. The dorm is co-ed by room. The second floor was being patrolled by a security officer. "You have to leave here now," he said.
It is no accident that very few of the several dozen students entering or exiting Harper today knew Cho. According to two who were aware of him, he was quiet, serious and, in the words of one, "gloomy."
"He seemed like a down person," said Mike Lee, a freshman from
Another student, a 21-year-old from
"I didn't know him," said the student. "He was quiet." But a roommate who had known Cho in high school in
Harper houses more than 300 students, and today it was clear that even those who lived down the hall didn't know Cho. The white corridor walls inside are largely undecorated; there's a Jewish awareness week flyer, a poster about recent thefts in the dorm, announcements for various groups on orange or purple paper. The campus is now quiet and unpopulated. All across the south campus, it looked like moving day, with students packing up their rolling bags and departing with a parent or sibling for a week off.
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Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools
By AP/SCHOOL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER
August 1, 1966:
Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the
May 4, 1970:
Four students are killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of
November 1, 1991:
Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from
February 29, 1996:
A 30-year-old man fires into a school bus where two are injured, including a pregnant teenager and the bus driver.
August 15, 1996:
Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at
A 16 year-old shoots and kills his principal and a student. Two other students are injured.
October 1, 1997:
A 16-year-old kills his mother, then goes to school and shoots nine others. Two die.
December 1, 1997:
A 14 year-old shoots eight students as they pray in school. Three die and one student is left paralyzed.
December 15, 1997: Stamps, Arkansas
An eighth grader is arrested and charged as an adult after he confesses to shooting and wounded two of his fellow students as he hid in the woods outside of a high school.
March 24, 1998:
Two boys, ages 11 and 13, shoot 14 students and one teacher. The teacher and four of the students die.
April 28, 1998:
A 14 year-old shoots three boys. Two are killed.
May 21, 1998:
A 15 year-old shoots and kills both parents before going to school and opening fire in the cafeteria. Two students are killed.
April 20, 1999:
Two boys, ages 16 and 17, shoot 35 students and 1 teacher before committing suicide. Twelve students and the teacher die.
May 13, 1999:
Two 14 year-olds plot to kill at least 154 people at school in an attempt to outdo the shooting at Columbine high school. They are stopped after fellow students report them.
Oct. 28, 1999: Cleveland, Ohio
A 14 year-old and three 15 year-olds plan on killing mostly black students, then dying in a shoot-out with police. A student's mother alerts officials.
January 29, 2000:
A 19 year-old plans to attack his high school with guns and explosives. He takes photos of himself and his arsenal. When he has the photos developed, a drug store clerk sees them and calls police.
February 29, 2000:
A 6 year-old boy brings a .32 semi-automatic handgun to school and kills a first grader.
February 5, 2001: Hoyt,
Three students, ages 16, 17, and 18, plan a school shooting. An anonymous caller to a tip line alerts police. When their homes are searched, police discover guns, bombs, and white supremacist drawings.
February 7, 2001:
A 14 year-old and two 15 year-olds plot to "redo Columbine." Several classmates alert the police after overhearing them talking about it.
February 11, 2001:
A 14 year-old builds a bomb having a kill radius of 15 feet. The parents of another student who had received an e-mail detailing the bomber's plans alert the sheriff's deputies.
February 14, 2001:
A high schools student's plans for a school shooting are foiled after students bring the fact that he had weapons on him to a teacher's attention. He carried 14 pipe bombs, three smaller bombs, a propane tank, a sawed-off shotgun, and a .22 caliber pistol into the school by a duffel bag and also a book bag full of ammunition. On December 17, 2001, Jeremy he is sentenced to 8 1/2 years.
March 5, 2001:
A 15 year-old opens fire from inside a school bathroom, shooting 15 and killing 2.
January 16, 2002:
Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from
October 28, 2002:
Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her. A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting himself.
March 21, 2005:
Jeff Weise, 16, kills his grandfather and companion, and then arrives at school where he kills a teacher, a security guard, five students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead.
August 25, 2006:
A gunman looking for an old girlfriend bursts into a
September 2, 2006:
Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of
September 13, 2006:
A student is shot and killed in a crosswalk in front of a school. The incident is suspected to be gang related.
September 25, 2006:
A bus driver pulls over to drop off students. One student gets off the bus and then shoots at it. Three bullets hit the back of the bus, but none of the 34 students on board are injured.
September 27, 2006:
An adult male sexual predator enters a school, sexual assaults six female students, kills a fleeing girl, and then kills himself.
October 2, 2006: Nickel Mines,
An adult male sexual predator enters a one-room
April 16, 2007:
A gunman kills 33 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech. The gunman later dies
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