Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Cops sought first victim's boyfriend after tip that he owned guns

(NEWSER) - A false lead in the first two shootings at Virginia Tech led to the critical two-hour delay in warning students that there was a gunman on campus, the Times reports. After Emily Jane Hilscher was shot in her dorm, her roommate told police that her boyfriend, a student at a nearby college, had guns at his townhouse. More»

Cho Seung-Hui was a senior; immigrated from South Korea as child

(NEWSER) - A Virginia Tech senior, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the shooter in yesterday's massacre. Cho, from South Korea, lived in a campus dormitory; his motive, which some speculate grew from rage over a soured relationship, remains unclear. More»

(NEWSER) - Police have a preliminary ID on the man who gunned down 30 people at Virginia Tech, but they aren't ready to release it, CNN reports. They won’t even confirm that the same gunman pulled the trigger at two the sites across campus, two hours apart, in the largest mass killing in American history. More»

Police haven't ruled out second shooter in killings of at least 33

(NEWSER) - The gunman who killed at least 32 people at Virginia Tech this morning struck twice—two shooting sprees two hours apart, on opposite sides of the campus. Two student were killed at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dorm, at about 7:15. Two hours later 30 people were stuck down at Norris Hall, an engineering building. More»

School waited too long to send out warnings, says jury

(NEWSER) - Virginia Tech was found legally negligent by a jury today in a lawsuit stemming from the 2007 school shooting that killed 33 people. The issue at stake was whether the university improperly delayed sending out warnings after the first two murders were discovered in a dorm, reports AP . Campus police waited two and a half hours before sending out an all-school warning that a "shooting incident" had occurred," notes the Richmond Times-Dispatch . More»