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Authorities ID gunman in Va. Tech rampage = Korean Boy
MSNBC and NBC News Updated: 2:00 p.m. ET April 17, 2007
BLACKSBURG, Va. - A 23-year-old senior from South Korea whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the schools counseling service was behind the massacre of 30 people locked inside a university classroom building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university said Tuesday.
Ballistics tests found that one of the guns used in that attack was also used in a shooting two hours earlier at a dormitory that left two people dead at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State Police said. Investigators said in a court filing that they had found a bomb threat note near the gunmans body.
Police identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui (pronounced Choh Suhng-whee), of Centreville, Va., who was a senior in the English Department at Virginia Tech. Cho, a resident alien who immigrated to the United States from South Korea in 1992, lived on campus in Harper Residence Hall.
The bloodbath ended with Chos suicide, bringing the death toll from two separate shootings first at the dormitory, then in a classroom building to 33 and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy.
Note listed gunmans grievances Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the universitys English department, said she did not personally know the gunman. But she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy, the departments director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as troubled.
There was some concern about him, Rude told The Associated Press. Sometimes, in creative writing, people reveal things and you never know if its creative or if theyre describing things, if theyre imagining things or just how real it might be. But were all alert to not ignore things ike this.
She said Cho was referred to the counseling service, but she said she did not know when or what the outcome was. Rude refused to release any of his writings or his grades, citing privacy laws.
NBC News Pete Williams reported that police had found a note in which Cho listed random grievances, but few other details were immediately available. That seemed in keeping for a young man who apparently left little impression in the Virginia Tech community.
Chos fellow residents of Harper Hall said few people knew the gunman, who kept to himself.
He cant have been an outgoing kind of person, Meredith Daly, 19, of Danville, Va., told MSNBC.coms Bill Dedman.
Stephen Scott, a freshman engineering student from Marlton, N.J., said police and FBI agents went through the dorm Monday night showing a picture of Cho and trying to find anybody who recognized or knew him. He did not know whether they were successful.
Very quiet, always by himself In Centreville, a suburb of Washington where Chos family lived in an off-white, two-story townhouse, people who knew Cho concurred that he kept to himself.
He was very quiet, always by himself, said Abdul Shash, a neighbor. Shash said Cho spent a lot of his free time playing basketball and would not respond if someone greeted him. He described the family as quiet.
Rod Wells, a postal worker, said that characterization of Cho did not fit the mans parents, who, he described as always polite, always kind to me, very quiet, always smiling. Just sweet, sweet people. I talk to particularly everybody here, Wells told NBC News. So I guess nobody had any intimation that he was like that. I dont think the parents did, because they were quite the opposite.
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