Shooter: "You have blood on your hands"

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Source: CCTV.com | 04-19-2007 14:21

Details emerge over the disturbed mental state of the Virginia Tech student who went on a shooting rampage

The investigation continues into the South Korean student, Cho Seung-Hui, who went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 32 people before committing suicide. The police chief and university professors have provided more details over troubling signs in the student's past.

Meanwhile, US broadcaster NBC has given authorities a package of photos and a manifesto that was mailed by the gunman. It said it hoped the material would be helpful to the investigation.

Prof. Lucinda Roy, Virginia Tech, said, "I just looked at him and said something like 'You seem so lonely. Do you have any friends?' And he said, 'I am lonely and I don't have any friends.' And then I talked to him about how difficult it is when you're feeling really sad and there's nobody there for you and that I hoped that would be something for him that would change.”

But it seems the sympathy came too late for the young man, who delivered an angry, profanity-laced manifesto about rich kids and hedonism.

Cho Seung-Hui said, "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today, but you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option, the decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."

Prof. Lucinda Roy said, "I tried to find out more about his family. He was very, very guarded about that. He was actually quite arrogant and could be quite obnoxious and was also deeply, it seemed, insecure. So there is often that combination in people who are very troubled and he had it to an extreme degree I think."

The 23 year old gunman immigrated from South Korea to the United States with his family in 1992, and was raised in Virginia outside Washington, DC. A South Korean newspaper has interviewed a man identified as Cho's 81-year-old grandfather. He said the Cho's were hard-working immigrants, who had doted on their children.

The young Cho had been accused of stalking two female students and been taken to a mental health facility in 2005.

Wendell Flinchum, police chief, Virginia Tech, said, "Out of concern for Cho, officers asked him to speak to a counselor, he went voluntarily to the police department. Based on that interaction with the counselor a temporary detention order was obtained and Cho was taken to a mental health facility."

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