A 23-year-old English major from Centreville was the gunman who killed 32 people and then himself on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday -- the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, university and law enforcement officials said.
Cho Seung Hui was a South Korean native who immigrated to this country as a child, officials said. His lifeless body was found in Norris Hall, a classroom building, among those of several other slain students, Virginia state police superintendent Col. Steve Flaherty said. Cho, a senior, had apparently taken his own life. Cho graduated in 2003 from Westfield High School in Fairfax County.
The shooter left a note in his dorm room.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the note railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charms
Cho, described by fellow students a loner, cleared a federal criminal background check at the time his green card was renewed in 2003, as did his family, a U.S. immigration official said."His check came back clean," the official said. "The whole family didn't have a problem."
So why are so many AMERICAN college kids dead?
Read more in the Washington Post.
1 comment:
I can't see how this has anything to do with immigration, but the entire event sucks.
Reading the story on the NY Times website it said that some of his college professors thought he was troubled. He was writing plays riddled with violence etc etc.
My question is, why the hell didn't they do something about it? Maybe they thought it was going to be the next Quentin Terentino.
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