Virginia Tech Killer Cho Seung-Hui Was A Ticking Timebomb And It Seems Everyone Who Knew Him Knew It

Cho Seung-Hui was not some guy who suddenly went berserk. Ask almost anyone who came in contact with him and they will tell you that this guy was a mass murderer waiting to happen. How could someone sell this nutcase a gun with a past like his unless there really is no background check.

Although I've never really been one who thought gun control would be a good thing for this country. After seeing this madman was allowed to purchase a gun legally I've come to the point where I might just change my opinion on the gun control subject... BJC

Police got little from gunman's videos


"This is it. This is where it all ends," Cho says in one videotape, in which he appears to be more melancholy than angry. "What a life it was. Some life."

Cho, 23, speaks in a harsh monotone in other videotaped rants, but it isn't clear to whom he is speaking. Some of his photos resemble scenes from a South Korean movie in Chan-wook Park's "Vengeance Trilogy."

"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," Cho says in one, with a snarl on his lips. "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."

Officials Knew Troubled State of Killer in ’05


BLACKSBURG, Va., April 18 — Campus authorities were aware 17 months ago of the troubled mental state of the student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday, an imbalance graphically on display in vengeful videos and a manifesto he mailed to NBC News in the time between the two sets of shootings.
“You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience,” the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, said in one video mailed shortly before the shooting at a classroom and his suicide. “Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people.”

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STATE OF MIND: Video offers a window into tortured soul


To those who study murder and madness, the video and pictures that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC News provide a rare, penetrating look at the mind of a madman -- obsessed with paranoia and fantasy and driven to massacre by wrongs he felt he had endured.


When NBC's New York offices opened Cho's package Wednesday, the network immediately turned it over to authorities, and NBC soon released segments of Cho's video and some still pictures -- setting off a wave of analysis by experts about what drove Cho to kill 32 fellow students at Virginia Tech on Monday before turning one of his guns on himself.

These are two plays written by Cho Seung Hui...

Play #1 "Richard McBeef"
Play #2 "Mr. Brownstone"





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Death Toll Rises To 33 Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting / Students Asking WTF To Security Concerns

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Virginia Tech president says student was gunman in nation's deadliest shooting


Two students told NBC's “Today” show they were unaware of the dorm shooting when they walked into Norris Hall for a German class where the gunman later opened fire.

Derek O'Dell, his arm in a cast after being shot, described a shooter who fired away in “eerily silence” with “no specific target – just taking out anybody he could.”

After the gunman left the room, students could hear him shooting other people down the hall. O'Dell said he and other students barricaded the door so the shooter couldn't get back in – though he later tried.

“After he couldn't get the door open he tried shooting it open ... but the gunshots were blunted by the door,” O'Dell said.

Details of killer emerge


The gunman who killed 32 people at a Virginia university in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history was a student of Asian origin who may have acted with a second suspect, the university's president said today.

"It appears that the second shooter was a resident in our dormitory ... it appears he was an on-campus resident," the president of Virginia Tech University Charles Steger said in an interview on ABC television in the US.

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THE QUESTION: Why did students go to class -- as if nothing happened?


A single question stands out from the massacre at Virginia Tech: Would more students be alive if the university in Blacksburg, Va., had not allowed them to go to class after a shooting had occurred in a campus dorm?

The nation's deadliest campus shooting rampage began at 7:15 a.m. in West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory, where police found two people fatally shot. But the first e-mail message to students from the Virginia Tech administration did not go out until more than two hours later, at 9:26 a.m., stating that a shooting had occurred but with no mention of staying indoors or staying off-campus or canceling classes.

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