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Virginia Tech shootings reverberate across Web BLACKSBURG, Va. As he left the bathroom at Harper Hall, his dormitory mate, Cho Seung-Hui, wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt, entered for his morning ritual of applying lotion, inserting his contact lenses and taking his medication. "He was, like, normal," Grewal, a 21-year-old accounting major, said today, describing the ordinary start to what turned out to be an extraordinary day. Grewal said he went back to sleep but, according to authorities, Cho stayed awake. In fewer than five hours, Cho was dead, having killed himself after shooting 32 others to death at two locations on the Blue Ridge Mountain campus. "He did not seem like a guy that's capable of anything like this," Grewal said. A day after the deadliest gun massacre in modern US history, students, friends and officials were trying to understand how Cho, a 23-year-old senior who was majoring in English, came to kill. It was a hazy picture of a man, whose last note was a rant against rich kids and debauchery, but who also appeared organized enough to secure weapons and stage his rampage. According to school officials, Cho even had time to post a deadly warning on a school online forum. "im going to kill people at vtech today," they said he wrote. The Chicago Tribune reported on its website that Cho left a note in his dorm that included a rambling list of grievances. The note included rants against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus. Cho arrived in the United States as an 8-year-old boy from South Korea in 1992, Korean Embassy officials said. His only previous contact with the law was a recent speeding ticket for doing 74 mph in a 55-mph zone, federal sources said. But the officials said he once set fire to his dorm room and was taking medication for depression. By around 7:15 am Monday, Cho had left his Harper Hall dorm for West Ambler Johnston dormitory. There he went to see Emily Hilscher, described as a friend by officials. Hilscher and the resident advisor, who came to investigate, were shot to death. He had a backpack containing knives and ammo magazines, sources said. The other gun, a 9-mm Glock, was bought from a Roanoke firearms store. After leaving the scene of the first shooting, Cho telephoned authorities with a threat, saying there was a bomb at Norris Hall, about half a mile away from Johnston. At Norris, officials said Cho barricaded the doors with chains, then began shooting people. Thirty were killed before Cho turned the gun on himself, officials said. At Harper, Cho shared a second-floor apartment-style suite with six other students. The suite is connected with one living room and a shared bathroom. Its living room has a burgundy couch and tan coffee table, and today it was littered with empty water bottles and Dr. Cho shared a bedroom with Joseph Aust, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering. Aust said he knew barely anything about him, and the two hardly spoke. When they moved in together, Aust said that Cho told him he was a business major. Aust said Cho was always on his computer listening to rock, pop and classical. "He would spend a lot of time downloading music," he said.
Share trip ideas with family & friends Message Board READERS WEIGH IN: Share your thoughts on the Virginia Tech University shooting. I live in Jamaica, I'm a teacher and it's my birthday today. my sympathy goes out to the families and friends who must bear this tragedy. Submitted by: Alexis 4:05 PM PDT, Apr 17, 2007 Administrators are not given classes on these type of security issues. I'm sure if anyone knew what to do to prevent these deaths, it would have been done to protect the Virginia Tech family.
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