RE: University 'warned about gunman'

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From: Free Spirit
Date: Apr 18, 2007 12:20 PM

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Date: Apr 18, 2007 8:37 AM


University 'warned about gunman'

BBC
Wednesday April 18, 2007

A professor who taught a student whose gun rampage at Virginia Tech left 32 people dead says she warned university officials about his behaviour.

Lucinda Roy said she became concerned after Cho Seung-hui wrote disturbing pieces for a creative writing class.

The 23-year-old South Korean has been described as a loner and an introvert.

Virginia's governor has vowed to review authorities' handling of the shootings amid claims that the US university did not do enough to protect students.

Police said Cho Seung-hui killed 30 people before committing suicide. He is also believed to have killed two students earlier in the day.

'Repeated' warnings

Speaking to US news network CNN, Ms Roy, a former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English Department, said that Cho's creative writing professor came to her about his writings in late 2005.

Ms Roy said that she was so disturbed by what she found that she decided to take him out of the classroom for one-to-one tutoring.

"I was so uncomfortable that I didn't feel that I could leave him in the classroom," she told CNN.

Ms Roy also said that she "repeatedly" spoke to university authorities about the student. Her warnings should have been taken more seriously, she said.

The university has not responded to her comments.

A former classmate of Cho's, Ian MacFarlane, has also posted on the AOL news website two plays he says that Cho wrote.

In an internet blog, he described Cho's work as "like something out of a nightmare", with "really twisted, macabre violence".

The plays purporting to be by Cho are strewn with obscenities and one concludes with a man killing his 13-year-old stepson.

"When I first heard about the multiple shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday, my first thought was about my friends, and my second thought was 'I bet it was Seung Cho'," he wrote.

Investigation

The university is coming under increasing scrutiny over its role in events, both before the shootings and as events unfolded.

Speaking at a news briefing on Tuesday, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine said an independent panel would carry out a "thorough" review of the authorities' handling of the disaster.

He said the panel would be appointed at the request of the university and would begin its inquiry immediately.

Gov Kaine warned against making snap judgements, saying he had "nothing but loathing" for those who took the tragedy and "make it their political hobby horse to ride".

Monday's shootings occurred in two separate locations, two hours apart.

The first took place at 0715 (1215 GMT), at West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory, where a man and a woman were shot dead.

Then, at about 0915 (1415 GMT), 30 people were killed in the second shooting at Norris Hall, about half a mile (800 metres) away, on the same campus.

Some students have complained that they received no warning from the university until an e-mail more than two hours after the first incident.

They also said that the university should have locked down the campus immediately after the shooting at the dormitory.

But university officials defended their handling of the incidents, saying they acted on the information that they had at the time.

The New York Times, meanwhile, reports that police may have lost time pursuing the wrong man.

Citing police documents, the daily said that police went to question the boyfriend of the woman shot dead at West Ambler Johnston Hall, after being told by her roommate that he had guns at his house.

Reports of the Norris Hall shootings came in as they were questioning him, the daily said.

On Tuesday, US President George W Bush addressed a memorial service for the victims of the shootings, calling it "a day of sadness for our entire nation".


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From: Alex Jones
Date: Apr 18, 2007 8:25 AM




Neo-Cons To Spin VA Massacre As Terrorist Attack

Neo-Con media cheerleaders for the Bush administration's war on terror are set to connect killer Cho Seung-Hui with militant Islam as an excuse to propagandize the notion that Monday's VA Tech Massacre was a terrorist attack.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/180407terroristattack.htm