Virginia Tech Gunman Identified

Gunman is Described as "Quiet" and "Always by Himself"

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

Blacksburg, Va., police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a quiet Virginia Tech student, as the deadly shooter who killed 32 people Monday before turning the gun on himself.

Cho, 23, moved to the United States with his family in 1992 from South Korea. They lived in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., where two victims of the tragic shooting also called home.

The killer was said to be a loner at Virginia Tech and an English major. For a class, he wrote plays which other students found quite violent and disturbing. The New York Times reported one was about a plot to kill a teacher by students that had been sexually molested, another about a violent fight between a father and stepson which involved hammers and chainsaws.

"When we read Cho’s plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn’t have even thought of," a former classmate said of the killer.

Police said they have no evidence that indicates Cho worked with an accomplice in the killings. His name was found on a driver's license in a backpack at the scene of the shooting.

"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did," another classmate, Stephanie Derry, told The Associated Press. "But when I got the call it was Cho who had done this, I started crying, bawling."

Click here to see a list of the victims compiled by the Associated Press.