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NEWS ABOUT: Seung-Hui Cho

Seung-Hui Cho stories: 31 news summaries

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Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands

Mentally ill students shielded by federal regs; parents, others can't be notified

Apr 19, 07 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not... More »

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Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record

Judge's ruling of "mental illness" no deterrent in Virginia

Apr 19, 07 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who... More »

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Gunman Mails Manifesto

Apr 19, 07 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui took a time out from his murder spree to mail a macabre package of videos, photographs and a delusional diatribe to NBC News. The images, posted between the dorm shootings and the carnage at Norris Hall, show him in combat gear, wielding the guns used... More »

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Police Talked to Cho in 2005

Officials say they didn't have grounds to arrest, mandate treatment

Apr 18, 07 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police... More »

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Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Playwriting class submissions cast their writer as "school shooter" type

Apr 18, 07 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with... More »

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"He Was Just Like a Shadow"

Roomates say Cho was silent, stalked girls, threatened suicide

Apr 18, 07 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former roommates say Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui had talked about suicide and stalked three women—scaring one so much her parents called the police. Two who had lived with him say they suspected Cho might be the gunman as soon as they heard the description. "He was just... More »

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Bad Tip Led Police Off Shooter's Trail

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

Apr 18, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Profs Worried
By Shooter's Morbid Writing

English student's prose fixated on revenge, violence, death

Apr 18, 07 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cho Seung-Hui frightened students and teachers in Virginia Tech’s English department with morbid writing. Poet Nikki Giovanni had to extract Cho from her creative writing course when her students began skipping class out of fear of him. Cho spoke in whispers, hid behind sunglasses, and took surreptitious pictures of... More »

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(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,... More »

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Virginia Tech
Shooter Was
A Student

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

Apr 17, 07 9:19 AM CDT
(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 »

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Virginia Tech Shootings Two Hours Apart

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

Apr 16, 07 5:27 PM CDT
(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... More »

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