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Virginia Tech shootings stories: 48 news summaries

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Va. Tech Shooter May Have Practiced

Investigators reveal new details
of deadly April rampage

Aug 10, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(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;... More »

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Va. Tech Probe Points to Privacy Laws

Muddled regs impede information flow; House OKs gun-control bill

Jun 14, 07 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A tangle of privacy laws helps prevent officials from sharing vital info about mentally ill individuals who may be dangerous, making it possible for them to buy handguns—and setting the stage for incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre. Greater awareness of the leeway officials have when safety is a... More »

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Pastor: Killer Possessed by 'Demonic Power'

Cho's mother sought spiritual healing as
son deteriorated

May 6, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mother of Seung Hui Cho sought spiritual healing for her angry, troubled son, the Washington Post reports in an examination of the Virginia Tech shooter's mental state. The head pastor of the One Mind Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, said his church was approached last summer to help deliver the... More »

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Police Search for Answers at VT

Apr 26, 07 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Post reports on the ongoing probe into the Virginia Tech shootings, with police reconstructing details of gunman Cho Seung-Hui's movements and searching for motives. Questions include whether Emily Hilscher, his first victim, was a random target, and the possibility that someone else mailed Cho's manifesto to NBC News. More »

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Virginia May Close Gun Loophole

Governor's order would give more mental health info to dealers

Apr 25, 07 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is considering closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui to buy guns despite his dangerous and conspicuous mental illness. A judge ruled Cho mentally ill in 2005, but didn't commit him, so his records were not in the data base dealers consult. More »

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(Newser) - The secluded family of the Virginia Tech gunman broke its silence today with a pained statement from his sister Sun-Kyung Cho, a Princeton grad who works as a contractor for the State Department. The family feels "hopeless, helpless and lost," she wrote, and is "deeply sorry" for... More »

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Cowell Defends Eye-Roll at VA Tech Tribute

Killjoy judge says
he didn't mean to disrespect victims

Apr 20, 07 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Notorious wet blanket Simon Cowell insists he was not rolling his eyes at a contestant's tribute to the Virginia Tech victims during Tuesday's "American Idol." What viewers saw, the blunt British judge says, was a reaction to the performance, not the remarks, of "Idol" hopeful Chris Richardson. More »

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Cho Diagnosed as Autistic,
Say Relatives

Uncle in Seoul says parents didn't have money for treatment

Apr 20, 07 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui's relatives in Seoul, tracked down by the  London Mirror, report that Cho had been diagnosed as autistic after arriving in the U.S. His grandfather's sister, Kim Yang-Sun, said Cho caused his mother "a lot of problems"  as a child and "never... More »

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Newsrooms Pull Cho Video

Apr 20, 07 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News vowed to stop playing the disturbed, invective-laden video made by Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho after a backlash from viewers—especially the victims' families—against its endless airing yesterday. Other networks said they would  “severely limit” the tape. More »

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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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Brits Find US Feckless On
Gun Control

America "unable to defend its citizens from its armed maniacs"

Apr 18, 07 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guardian takes aim at U.S resistance to gun control, calling it an "enduring civic failure" that allows tragedies like the Virginia Tech shootings to occur. The paper describes a country held hostage by the NRA, failing its basic responsibilities by being "unable to defend its ordinary... 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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Virginia Tech Cancels Spring Football Game

Hokie sports to resume Friday with baseball game against Miami

Apr 18, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer has cancelled his team’s remaining three spring practices and its annual spring game in light of the school shooting that left 33 dead. No players on the team were injured. More »

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Most Dems Mum on Gun Control

Murphy: Massacre
could have been avoided if leaders
stood up to gun lobby

Apr 18, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Grief over the Virginia Tech massacre is re-energizing gun control advocates like Rep. Carolyn Murphy, whose husband was shot dead in 1996. "For too long, Congress has stood idle while gun violence continues to take its toll," she said yesterday. But most Dems have studiously avoided the hot-button... More »

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VT Student Was at Columbine

First Columbine, now Virginia Tech: Regina Rohde has lived through both

Apr 18, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A veteran of the Columbine massacre has now relived that high school tragedy as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. Regina Rohde, a master's candidate in the department of fisheries and science, was a freshman at Columbine in 1999. "They're strikingly similar," Rohde says of the shootings. 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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