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Pastor: Killer Possessed by 'Demonic Power'

Cho's mother sought spiritual healing as son deteriorated

(Newser) - The mother of Seung Hui Cho sought spiritual healing for her angry, troubled son, the Washington Post reports in an examination of the Virginia Tech shooter's mental state. The head pastor of the One Mind Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, said his church was approached last summer to help deliver the...

Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole
Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole
Apr 30, 2007 2:19 PM CDT

Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole

Executive order would have barred V.T. shooter from buying weapon

(Newser) - Virginia governor Tim Kaine has issued an executive order closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to purchase a gun, the AP reports. Effective immediately, Virginians diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill will be added to a national database that gun-store owners use for background checks. The order...

Police Search for Answers at VT
Police Search for Answers at VT
Apr 26, 2007 6:14 AM CDT

Police Search for Answers at VT

(Newser) - The Post reports on the ongoing probe into the Virginia Tech shootings, with police reconstructing details of gunman Cho Seung-Hui's movements and searching for motives. Questions include whether Emily Hilscher, his first victim, was a random target, and the possibility that someone else mailed Cho's manifesto to NBC News.

Virginia May Close Gun Loophole
Virginia May Close Gun Loophole
Apr 25, 2007 6:04 AM CDT

Virginia May Close Gun Loophole

Governor's order would give more mental health info to dealers

(Newser) - Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is considering closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui to buy guns despite his dangerous and conspicuous mental illness. A judge ruled Cho mentally ill in 2005, but didn't commit him, so his records were not in the data base dealers consult.

Cho's Family: "He Has Made The World Weep. We Are Living A Nightmare"

(Newser) - The secluded family of the Virginia Tech gunman broke its silence today with a pained statement from his sister Sun-Kyung Cho, a Princeton grad who works as a contractor for the State Department. The family feels "hopeless, helpless and lost," she wrote, and is "deeply sorry" for...

Cho Diagnosed as Autistic, Say Relatives

Uncle in Seoul says parents didn't have money for treatment

(Newser) - Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui's relatives in Seoul, tracked down by the  London Mirror, report that Cho had been diagnosed as autistic after arriving in the U.S. His grandfather's sister, Kim Yang-Sun, said Cho caused his mother "a lot of problems"  as a child and "never...

Newsrooms Pull Cho Video
Newsrooms Pull Cho Video
Apr 20, 2007 6:21 AM CDT

Newsrooms Pull Cho Video

(Newser) - Fox News vowed to stop playing the disturbed, invective-laden video made by Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho after a backlash from viewers—especially the victims' families—against its endless airing yesterday. Other networks said they would  “severely limit” the tape.

Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands
Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands
Apr 19, 2007 1:43 PM CDT

Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands

Mentally ill students shielded by federal regs; parents, others can't be notified

(Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not...

Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record

Judge's ruling of "mental illness" no deterrent in Virginia

(Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who...

Gunman Mails Manifesto
Gunman Mails Manifesto
Apr 19, 2007 6:01 AM CDT

Gunman Mails Manifesto

(Newser) - Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui took a time out from his murder spree to mail a macabre package of videos, photographs and a delusional diatribe to NBC News. The images, posted between the dorm shootings and the carnage at Norris Hall, show him in combat gear, wielding the guns used...

Police Talked to Cho in 2005
Police Talked to Cho in 2005
Apr 18, 2007 1:50 PM CDT

Police Talked to Cho in 2005

Officials say they didn't have grounds to arrest, mandate treatment

(Newser) - Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police...

Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Playwriting class submissions cast their writer as "school shooter" type

(Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with...

&quot;He Was Just Like a Shadow&quot;
"He Was Just Like a Shadow"
Apr 18, 2007 7:30 AM CDT

"He Was Just Like a Shadow"

Roomates say Cho was silent, stalked girls, threatened suicide

(Newser) - Former roommates say Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui had talked about suicide and stalked three women—scaring one so much her parents called the police. Two who had lived with him say they suspected Cho might be the gunman as soon as they heard the description. "He was just...

Bad Tip Led Police Off Shooter's Trail

Cops sought first victim's boyfriend after tip that he owned guns

(Newser) - A false lead in the first two shootings at Virginia Tech led to the critical two-hour delay in warning students that there was a gunman on campus, the Times reports.  After Emily Jane Hilscher was shot in her dorm, her roommate told police that her boyfriend, a student at...

Profs Worried By Shooter's Morbid Writing

English student's prose fixated on revenge, violence, death

(Newser) - Cho Seung-Hui frightened students and teachers in Virginia Tech’s English department with morbid writing. Poet Nikki Giovanni had to extract Cho from her creative writing course when her students began skipping class out of fear of him. Cho spoke in whispers, hid behind sunglasses, and took surreptitious pictures of...

Shooter's Note: "You caused me to do this"

(Newser) - The Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 students and teachers yesterday left a vitriolic note in his dorm room, blaming other students for his shooting spree. "You caused me to do this," the note said, according to ABC News. It also attacked "rich kids," "debauchery,...

Virginia Tech Shooter Was A Student
Virginia Tech
Shooter Was
A Student
Apr 17, 2007 9:19 AM CDT

Virginia Tech Shooter Was A Student

Cho Seung-Hui was a senior; immigrated from South Korea as child

(Newser) - A Virginia Tech senior, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the shooter in yesterday's massacre. Cho, from South Korea, lived in a campus dormitory; his motive, which some speculate grew from rage over a soured relationship, remains unclear.

Virginia Tech Shootings Two Hours Apart

Police haven't ruled out second shooter in killings of at least 33

(Newser) - The gunman who killed at least 32 people at Virginia Tech this morning struck twice—two shooting sprees two hours apart, on opposite sides of the campus. Two student were killed at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dorm, at about 7:15. Two hours later 30 people were stuck down...

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