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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904.
Experts call Cho Seung-Hui 'textbook case' of school shooter
Violence has familiar marks
BY MATT APUZZO AND
SHARON COHEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Virginia Tech Marching Band serenades patients at the Montgomery Regional Hospital on Thursday in Blacksburg, Va. Several of the Virginia Tech shooting victims opened their windows and waved to the band.
When he finally did one day, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: "Go back to China."
As such details of Cho's life come out, and experts pore over his sick and twisted writings and his video-taped rant, it is becoming increasingly clear that Cho was almost a textbook case of a school shooter: a painfully awkward, picked-on young man who lashed out with methodical fury at a world he believed was out to get him.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth.
VIRGINIA TECH
When criminologists and psychologists look at mass murders, Cho fits the themes they see repeatedly: a friendless figure, someone who has been bullied, someone who blames others and is bent on revenge, a careful planner, a male. And someone who sent up warning
was his turn, said Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior and high school classmate.
"In virtually every regard, Cho Is prototypical of mass killers that I've studied in the past 25 years," said Northeastern University criminal justice professor James Alan Fox, coauthor of 16 books on crime. "That doesn't mean, however, that one could have predicted his rampage."
After the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho began reading in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth", Davids said.
"The whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, 'Go back to China,'" Davids said.
Stephanie Roberts, 22, a classmate of Cho's at Westfield High, said she never witnessed anyone picking on Cho in high school. But she said friends of hers who went to middle school with him told her they recalled him getting bullied there.
"There were just some people who were really mean to him and they would push him down and laugh at him." Roberts said. "He didn't speak English really well and they would really make fun of him."
Once, in English class at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., when the teacher had the students read aloud, Cho looked down when it
He was accused of stalking two women and photographing female students in class with his cell phone. And his violence-filled writings were so disturbing he was removed from one class, and professors begged him to get counseling.
Regan Wilder, 21, who attended Virginia Tech, high school and middle school with Cho, said she was sure Cho probably was picked on in middle school, but so was everyone else. And it didn't seem as if English was the problem for him, she said. If he didn't speak English well, there were several other Korean students he could have reached out to for friendship, but he didn't.
Cho, who killed 32 people and committed suicide Monday, cast himself in his video diatribe as a persecuted figure like Jesus Christ. Cho, who came to the U.S. at about age 8 in 1992 and whose parents work at a dry clearers in suburban Washington, also ranted against rich "brats" with Mercedes, gold necklaces, cognac and trust funds.
Classmates in Virginia, where Cho grew up, said he was teased and picked on, apparently because of shyness and his strange, murribly way of speaking.
Among other things, the 23-year-old South Korean immigrant was sent to a psychiatric hospital and pronounced an imminent danger to himself.
signs with his strange behavior long in advance.
He rarely looked anyone in the eye and did not even talk to his own roommates.
》 LAWRENCE
The 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of three counts of aggravated criminal threat. He lived in a Lawrence apartment where authorities say they recovered the phone used to make the threats. No bomb-making materials were found, Lawrence police Capt. David Cobb said.
Man arrested for calling bomb threat
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LAWRENCE — Police arrested a man accused of making vague threats Thursday that prompted dozens of schools, already nervous after the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, to increase their security, authorities said.
At one point Thursday, Lawrence schools Superintendent Randy Weseman said all entrances and exits to each of the district's 15 elementary school buildings, four junior highs and two high schools were monitored.
Cobb said the man was not affiliated with a school and did not provide a motive.
"We don't believe the threats were really meant for the schools," Cobb said. "That was something he used to get everyone's attention."
At least three elementary schools called off music programs planned for Thursday night, and Southwest Junior High in Lawrence called off a track meet and all other clubs and activities slated for Thursday evening.
"At 6:46 a.m., another call was received and a male voice told telecommunicators there was a bomb at a school and at city hall," police said in a news release.
Officers began investigating after Douglas County Communications began receiving a series of five calls to the 911 center. Nothing was said during the first call, which was made about 5 a.m.
Because the caller did not identify the school or the city that were targets of the threat, several districts were alerted.