Federal officials today said that the gunman who killed 32 people and himself yesterday was Cho Seung-Hui, a student who lived in a dormitory on the Virginia Tech campus.
Twenty-one-year-old Brandon Stiltner, a senior at Virginia Tech, never could have dreamed his old refrigerator box would become a schoolwide totem of comfort. Reacting to the most violent shooting incident in American history, Stiltner took the box–which he had carved into a giant cutout of the letters V and T for the University of Miami football game months earlier–and laid it outside the War Memorial Chapel on Monday evening, dozens of red and white candles placed at its feet.
The massacre at Virginia Tech, while the focus of the national media, has a greater importance among lawmakers and especially their staffs and other Washington industries because many know Tech students and their families.
AP - The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, blood-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women and rich kids.
AP - Representing America's anguish, President Bush said Tuesday that he prays for comfort for those victimized by the "dark turn" of the day at Virginia Tech that turned into the nation's deadliest shooting spree.
Gunman identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major from South KoreaCho wrote plays containing "macabre violence," student saysNote left by Cho rails against "deceitful charlatans," Chicago Tribune reportsPolice: Victims found in four classrooms, stairwell
The day after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Virginia Tech students and townspeople were absorbing what happened and trying to show unity.
The gunman in Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech was Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old senior English major from Centreville, Virginia, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.