Hey look! It's the shooter...



Oh... wait, that's just me


On a serious note, the media really needs to be careful with these pictures. You can't just google the name "Cho Seung-Hui" and post that picture up. Stupidity.

4/17/2007 11:31:41 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266523,00.html

Quote :

""It's certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases," said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police. Flaherty stressed that authorities had not firmly established the links betweent the two incidents. Cho himself was a resident of Harper Hall, another on-campus residence hall. A South Korean foreign ministry official in Seoul said Cho had emigrated to the U.S. in 1992, when he would have been about 8 years old "

4/17/2007 11:31:47 AM

He may have filed off the serial numbers before he decided on the specifics of what he was going to do. It could have just been irrational behavior.

4/17/2007 11:40:24 AM

Maybe he was a communications major who realized he had to find a job next month

4/17/2007 11:47:07 AM

Probably bought the guns stolen --> no serial numbers.

4/17/2007 11:59:58 AM

Or, ya know, maybe he didn't PLAN on killing himself.

4/17/2007 12:01:56 PM

They've been showing the parent's house on TV. Even disclosed the location and everything. With live video and pictures of the home. The media is pretty evil.

I couldn't imagine what the suspect's parents are going through. And now, to have the media all over them. And the possibility of death threats and what not from the community. That's pretty messed up. There should be laws dictating this kind of stuff.

4/17/2007 12:02:26 PM

more laws solve nothing.

4/17/2007 12:03:56 PM

^^^^ah, makes sense

^^^i'm thinking he probably did

4/17/2007 12:07:26 PM

^^is that rebuttal on my statement about protection of privacy... or an attack on laws in general *cough* *cough* gun laws... or on video games?

[Edited on April 17, 2007 at 12:08 PM. Reason : ]

4/17/2007 12:07:52 PM

sort of, yes, and yes.

4/17/2007 12:08:42 PM

[Edited on April 17, 2007 at 12:18 PM. Reason : Satan incarnate as Butthead]

4/17/2007 12:17:22 PM

4/17/2007 12:19:17 PM

yeah, the media showing the parent's house is just too far...that's a breach on their personal safety IMO

Plus, they have ZERO to do with this case. He was an adult and acted on his own behalf.

4/17/2007 12:25:32 PM

they raised him to be capable of killing 30+ people because he got dumped. sounds like their fault to me.

4/17/2007 12:28:44 PM

I guess that's a reasonable argument.

For a mentally retarded individual.

4/17/2007 12:31:33 PM

no real motive has been established

4/17/2007 12:42:37 PM

whatever happened to crazy?

4/17/2007 1:07:01 PM

whatever happened to evil?

4/17/2007 1:12:01 PM

whatever happened to azn?

4/17/2007 1:17:02 PM

whatever happened to Mr. Belvedere?

[Edited on April 17, 2007 at 1:19 PM. Reason : I liked that show :/]

4/17/2007 1:19:28 PM

whatever happened to predictability?

4/17/2007 1:29:00 PM

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070417vtech-shootings,0,1137509.story?coll=chi-homepagepromo440-fea

Quote :

" A note believed to have been written by Cho was found in his dorm room that railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus. "

4/17/2007 1:31:50 PM

Quote :

"they raised him to be capable of killing 30+ people because he got dumped. sounds like their fault to me."

This comment probably would have not been made if the suspect was 30 yrs. old, out of college, and living on his own. (i.e. non-dependant)

4/17/2007 2:06:51 PM

Quote :

"they raised him to be capable of killing "

that is the lamest cop out victim-mentality shit ive read in a while.

everyone is fucking capable of killing.

you cant blame this on the parents.

4/17/2007 2:24:02 PM

i'm not saying it's all the parents fault... obviously it was his fault that he did it.

i'm just saying the parents might have done a better job with this one.

4/17/2007 2:55:48 PM

parent's shouldn't even be 1% of this if the dude has been in college 4 years.

4/17/2007 3:07:53 PM

Quote :

"written by Cho was found in his dorm room that railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus"

for this he shot up an engineering building?

wrong crowd!

he was probably pissed because despite being an Azn he couldn't cut it in engineering.

4/17/2007 4:01:25 PM

He was an English major.

And he shot people in foreign language classes.

[Edited on April 17, 2007 at 4:04 PM. Reason : d]

4/17/2007 4:04:24 PM

^He was a foreign English major attacking Americans in foreign language classes.

4/17/2007 4:07:05 PM

so the victims were almost all engineering students in foriegn language classes?

thats bizarre.

4/17/2007 4:14:49 PM

The victims weren't all engineering majors.

4/17/2007 4:22:52 PM

Engineering hall. doesnt mean all the classes there are engineering classes. look a state, i mean not all the classes in Harrelson Hall are math classes

4/17/2007 4:39:51 PM

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

4/17/2007 4:48:49 PM

^i read that Richard McBeef play.......def some weird ass shit

4/17/2007 4:59:49 PM

"Mr. Brownstone" proves it is all Axl Rose's fault.

4/17/2007 5:04:43 PM

okay i read both plays. richard mcbeef is either a horrible story or a sorta funny dark comedy i cant really tell. and Mr brownstone. . .i really dont know how to feel about it except i dont think he really didnt have to talk that long about kidney stones didnt really go anywhere

4/17/2007 5:24:47 PM

"Mr. Brownstone" does seem weaker to me.

But the song is great. You have to give him that.

4/17/2007 5:30:32 PM

well it is half the play.but there no plot really to it.

anyway i think its stupid for ppl who doesnt know this guy to try to analyze his plays. cause seriously there was a time i wrote stupid, dark, fucked up stories and it doesnt mean im going to snap. at the time if just read what i wrote you would get a totally different idea of who i was than if you actually knew me.

the guy was probably crazy but to say that you need to send everyone who writes a fucked up story to the counsler is just bs

4/17/2007 5:41:59 PM

i would have failed any writing class for turning in stories that bad.

4/17/2007 6:43:22 PM

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"the guy was probably crazy but to say that you need to send everyone who writes a fucked up story to the counsler is just bs"

Indeed.

Quote :

"i would have failed any writing class for turning in stories that bad."

I doubt it.

4/17/2007 6:44:55 PM

I don't know if it has been posted yet but here is a virtual memorial...the server is very slow and you are going to have problems so just be patient!

http://rosa.hosting.vt.edu/index.php/memorial/

4/17/2007 10:14:51 PM

the vigil was nice tonight...

4/18/2007 1:33:35 AM

listening to his roommates..........sounds like he was either schizophrenic - paranoid type

or has antisocial personality disorder.


all in all sounds like a creepy fucker

4/18/2007 1:47:45 AM

The Technician was able to put together an audio slideshow about the vigil last night.

http://files.technicianonline.com/VTVigil/

We also have coverage (and a downloadable version of the slideshow) through our podcast.

http://www.technicianonline.com/podcasting/

4/18/2007 4:02:04 AM

So on my way out the door they were reporting that police were surrounding the building next to the one where the shootings took place, with assault rifles drawn and all that sorta stuff...

4/18/2007 8:35:20 AM

posting just so I can be in the lounge thread

4/18/2007 1:18:01 PM

finally concealed carry permit mentioned...

http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2007/04/17/koch.wrong.accused.cnn

4/18/2007 4:07:50 PM

ohh noes

4/18/2007 4:11:54 PM

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"They've been showing the parent's house on TV. Even disclosed the location and everything. With live video and pictures of the home. The media is pretty evil. I couldn't imagine what the suspect's parents are going through. And now, to have the media all over them. And the possibility of death threats and what not from the community. That's pretty messed up. There should be laws dictating this kind of stuff."

the parents have shuttered their dry cleaning business and have gone into hiding.

that really sucks.

4/18/2007 4:53:27 PM