Portrait of a killer
Is it just me or does everyone wonder what you do with so called warning signs in young people?
After the event, there is so much evidence that Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui was troubled.
The 23 year old English major moved to America, from South Korea in 1992, when he was 8 years old. He was a US citizen.
His parents neighbours say they were a lovely family, always happy and smiling and very very kind.
Cho, on the other hand, was alarmingly reclusive.
His room mates at Virginia Tech said they slept three feet apart for almost a year, yet had exchanged no more than a few words.
19 year old room mate Joe Aust says Cho was always down loading music on the computer – all sorts – country, pop, rock – and if anyone spoke to him, he would simply ignore them.
He says Cho constantly played basketball alone, ate meals alone and shunned any attempts at friendship.
Cho killed 32 people yesterday, the first person he gunned down is believed to be a girl he was infatuated with. Early reports indicate no one can remember them having a relationship of any description.
Probably the most chilling news, is that after shooting the girl and her dorm master, while police investigated the killings and warned students to be on the lookout for anything unusual on the campus, Cho returned to his own room, where numerous people saw him wandering around in boxer shorts and a t shirt, putting on lotion in the bathroom, inserting his contact lenses. No one had any idea what he had just done, or what he was planning to do.
During that time back at the dorm, Cho sat down and wrote a seven page note in which he railed against, "rich kids, debauchery and deceitful charlatans".
He wrote: “You caused me to do this.”
An English professor has told the media, Cho was seen by the staff as ‘troubled’. She points particularly to one piece of creative writing which set off alarm bells in the staff. The essay was handed to counselling staff on campus – but had gone no further.
If some of Cho’s teachers were concerned, the students who should have known him better were simply puzzled by him.
He was certainly anti social and his silence was described as creepy, but everyone who knew him say they thought Cho was just strange. Never in a million years could they imagine him to be a killer so cold hearted, so angry that in the space of three hours, he would shoot his way into history.
After the event, there is so much evidence that Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui was troubled.
The 23 year old English major moved to America, from South Korea in 1992, when he was 8 years old. He was a US citizen.
His parents neighbours say they were a lovely family, always happy and smiling and very very kind.
Cho, on the other hand, was alarmingly reclusive.
His room mates at Virginia Tech said they slept three feet apart for almost a year, yet had exchanged no more than a few words.
19 year old room mate Joe Aust says Cho was always down loading music on the computer – all sorts – country, pop, rock – and if anyone spoke to him, he would simply ignore them.
He says Cho constantly played basketball alone, ate meals alone and shunned any attempts at friendship.
Cho killed 32 people yesterday, the first person he gunned down is believed to be a girl he was infatuated with. Early reports indicate no one can remember them having a relationship of any description.
Probably the most chilling news, is that after shooting the girl and her dorm master, while police investigated the killings and warned students to be on the lookout for anything unusual on the campus, Cho returned to his own room, where numerous people saw him wandering around in boxer shorts and a t shirt, putting on lotion in the bathroom, inserting his contact lenses. No one had any idea what he had just done, or what he was planning to do.
During that time back at the dorm, Cho sat down and wrote a seven page note in which he railed against, "rich kids, debauchery and deceitful charlatans".
He wrote: “You caused me to do this.”
An English professor has told the media, Cho was seen by the staff as ‘troubled’. She points particularly to one piece of creative writing which set off alarm bells in the staff. The essay was handed to counselling staff on campus – but had gone no further.
If some of Cho’s teachers were concerned, the students who should have known him better were simply puzzled by him.
He was certainly anti social and his silence was described as creepy, but everyone who knew him say they thought Cho was just strange. Never in a million years could they imagine him to be a killer so cold hearted, so angry that in the space of three hours, he would shoot his way into history.
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