Shooter's Note: "You caused me to do this"

By Caroline Miller, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 17, 2007 2:26 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 students and teachers yesterday left a vitriolic note in his dorm room, blaming other students for his shooting spree. "You caused me to do this," the note said, according to ABC News. It also attacked "rich kids," "debauchery," and "deceitful charlatans," the Chicago Tribune reports.

New stories are surfacing about Cho's troubled past, including suggestions that he had been medicated in the past for depression, says the Tribune. And several outlets are now reporting that Cho was referred to counseling last year by one of the school's English teachers after he submitted a violent one-act play about an abusive stepfather.

Students console each other after a memorial service at War Memorial Chapel near Norris Hall, the site of a shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. A gunman... (Associated Press)

Susan Hylton, left, hugs her daughter, Mary McFillin, both of Vienna, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007, after Hylton arrived on campus to pick up her daughter. McFillin, 19, is a student at Virginia Tech.... (Associated Press)

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