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Va. Tech Shooter May Have Practiced

Posted Aug 10, 07 3:49 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – The Virginia Tech killer may have rehearsed his rampage 2 days before the massacre of 32 people on April 16, police investigators said today. One witness reported spotted a suspicious-looking hooded male near doors inside the academic building where the shootings took place on April 14, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports; another witness saw chains on the door that same day.

Investigators also revealed that bloody clothing found in his room conclusively links 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho to the two murders in a dormitory 2 hours before the shooting spree in Norris Hall. They continue to search for a link between the victims and Cho, who police now say obeyed a 2005 court order by contacting multiple mental-health facilities.

Source Richmond Times-Dispatch

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These entry doors to Norris Hall were chained shut by Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday, June 14, 2007. The door handles have since been replaced....   (Associated Press)
A stone painted with the names of the Virginia Tech shooting victims is seen on the Drill field by the makeshift memorial on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Schools,...   (Associated Press)
In this undated photo released by the Virginia State Police, Cho Seung-Hui is shown. Seung-Hui, 23, is identified by police as the gunman suspected in the massacre that left 33 people dead at Virginia...   (Associated Press)
A police officer embraces a woman at the "Hokie" stone memorial...   (Getty Images)
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