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Virginia Tech Shooter Identified

Written by Alyx on April 17th, 2007 in crime, culture.

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Cho Hui Seung, a resident alien of the United States, a South Korean national and a Virginia Tech senior has been identified as the gunman in the shootings that left 33 people dead on the Virginia Tech campus Monday, ABC News has learned.

The student killed two people in a dorm room, returned to his own dorm room where he re-armed and left a “disturbing note” before entering a classroom building on the other side of campus to continue his rampage, sources said.

Cho’s identitiy has been confirmed with a positive fingerprint match on the guns used in the rampage and with immigration materials. It is believed that he was the shooter in both incidents yesterday. Sources say Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol, sources said. Witnesses had also told authorities that the shooter was carrying a backpack. Sections of chain similar to those used to lock the main doors at Norris Hall, the site of the second shooting that left 31 dead, were also found inside a Virginia Tech dormitory, sources confirmed to ABC News.

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In all, the massacre at Virginia Tech left 33 people dead — including Cho himself — in the worst shooting in modern American history.

President Charles Steger told “Good Morning America’s” Diane Sawyer that police were still investigating the possibility of a second shooter, and said authorities had already interviewed one “person of interest.”

“There may be others,” said Steger, who will join the Virginia Tech chief of police at a press conference Tuesday morning. “We just don’t know.”

Steger also said that authorities hoped to have ballistics evidence to release that would confirm a connection between the two shootings.

One Response to “Virginia Tech Shooter Identified”

  1. Bill G Says:

    Certain articles refer to his name as Cho Seung-Hui. I have no idea which is correct.

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