10A VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS
THE UNIVERSITY DAIRY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
Minal Hiralal Panchal, Waleed Mohamed Shaalan Daniel Cueva, Rachel Hill, Mary Reed, Matthew Gwaltney, Austin Cloyd, Erin Peterson, Jeremy Herbstritt; Brian Bluhm, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Nicole White, Ross Alameddine, Lauren McCain, Dan O'Neil, Maxine Turner, Henry Lee, Matt La Porte, Jamie Bishop, G.V. Loganathan, Juan Ortiz, Jarrett Lane, Ryan Clark, Leslie Sherman, Caitlin Hammaren, Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Reema Samaha, Emily Hilscher; Minal Hiralal
THEVICTIMS
Couture-Nowak, Nicole White, Ross Alameddine, Lauren McCain, Dan O'Neil, Maxine Turner, Henry Lee, Matt La Porte, Jamie Bishop, G.V. Loganathan, Juan Ortiz, Jarrett Lane, Ryan Clark, Leslie Sherman, Caitlin Hammaren, Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Reema Samaha Emily Hilscher; Minal Hiralal Panchal, Waleed Mohamed Shaalan, Daniel Cueva, Rachel Hill, Mary Reed Matthew Gwaltney, Austin Cloyd, Erin Peterson, Jeremy Herbstritt, Brian Bluhm, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Nicole White, Ross Alameddine, Lauren McCain, Dan O'Neil, Maxine Turner, Henry Lee, Mina Ortiz, Jamie Bisho Nathan Juartiz Jardetane, Ryan
04. 16.07
Minal Hiralal Panchal, Waleed Mohamed Shaalan, Daniel Cueva, Rachel Hill, Mary Reed, Matthew Gwaltney, Austin Cloyd, Erin Peterson, Jeremy Herbstritt, Brian Bluhm, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Nicole White, Ross Alameddine, Lauren McCain, Dan O'Neil, Maxine Turner, Henry Lee, Matt La Porte; Jamie Bishop, G.V. Loganathan, Juan Ortiz, Jarrett Lane, Ryan Clark, Leslie Sherman, Caitlin Hammaren, Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Reema Samaha, Emily Hilscher; Minal Hiralal
VIRGINATECH
Iyne Couture-Nowak, Nicole White, Ross Alameddine Lauren McCain, Dan O'Neil, Maxine Turner, Henry Lee Matt La Porte, Jamie Bishop, G.V. Loganathan, Juan Ortiz, Jarrett Lane, Ryan Clark; Leslie Sherman, Caitlin Hammaren, Liviu Librescu, Kevin Granata, Reema Samaha, Emily Hilscher; Minal Hiralal Panchal
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Jim Fathauer, Blacksburg, Va., sits in Sharkey's Wing & Rib Joint on Main St. In Blacksburg watching news reports on Wednesday about the photos and video that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC News during the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Gunman mails videos to NBC during massacre
BY MATT APUZZO ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Midway through his murderous rampage, the Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and delivering a snarling, profanity-laced tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs."
"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today" 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone. "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. You have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
NBC said the package contained a rambling and often incoherent, 1,800-word video manifesto on CD, plus 43 photos, 11 of them showing him aiming handguns at the camera.
The package arrived at NBC headquarters in New York two days after Cho killed 32 people and committed suicide in the deadliest one-man shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. It bore a Postal Service time stamp showing that it had been mailed at a Blacksburg post
office at 9:01 a.m. Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after Cho first opened fire.
That would help explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire, at a high-rise dorm, and the second fusillade, at a classroom building.
"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats," says Cho, a South Korean immigrant whose parents work at a dry cleaners in suburban Washington. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those wereen't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."
Earlier in the day, authorities disclosed that more than a year before the massacre, Cho was accused of sending unwanted messages to two women and was taken to a psychiatric hospital on a magistrate's orders and was pronounced a danger to himself. But he was released with orders to undergo outpatient treatment.
The disclosure added to the rapidly growing list of warning signs that appeared well before the student
opened fire. Among other things, Cho's twisted, violence-filled writings and sullen, vacant-eyed demeanor had disturbed professors and students so much that he was removed from one English class and was repeatedly urged to get counseling.
Some of the pictures in the video package show him smiling; others show him frowning and snarling. Some depict him brandishing two weapons at a time, one in each hand. He wears a khaki-colored military-style vest, fingerless gloves, a black T-shirt, a backpack and a backward, black baseball cap. Another photo shows him swinging a hammer. Another shows Cho holding a gun to his temple.
He refers to "martyrs like Eric and Dylan" — a reference to the teenage killers in the Columbine High massacre.
The package was sent by overnight delivery but did not arrive at NBC until Wednesday morning, apparently because it had the wrong ZIP code, NBC said.
An alert postal employee brought the package to NBC's attention after noticing the Blacksburg return address and a name similar to the words reportedly found scrawled in red ink on Cho's arm after the bloodbath, "Ismail Ax," NBC said.