Family Clarifies Name of Va. Tech Gunman

When police and Virginia Tech officials released the name of the person responsible for the deadliest mass murder by a lone gunman in U.S. history, they identified him as Cho Seung-Hui.

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Va. Tech Gunman's Family Feels 'Lost'

Some have called him a loner, but Sun-Kyung Cho says her younger brother was quiet and reserved. She grew up with Seung-Hui Cho, but now says she feels as if she no longer knows him.

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School districts across US scramble to handle wave of violent threats

A Web designer was charged Thursday with posting on his own site a bogus threat to kill 50 San Diego State University students, then alerting a TV station to try to draw publicity, the FBI said. Cristobal Fernando Gonzalez, 32, faces one felony count of making a threatening communication through the Internet. He was being held on $30,000 bail. His parents said outside the federal courthouse that he was remorseful. "I hope it doesn't ruin his future," said his mother, Diana Gomez. Scores of schools across the country closed or evacuated students Thursday and at least a dozen people were arrested in the wave of campus threats that started soon after the Virginia Tech shootings. At least two students were arrested for bringing guns onto campus. The overwhelming majority of the threats referred to Monday's massacre in Blacksburg, Va., or the 1999 Columbine High School killings, authorities said. Friday is the eighth anniversary of the Columbine attacks. A 12,000-student school district in Yuba City, Calif., about

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Rules Should Have Barred Weapon Purchase

A judge's ruling on Cho Seung-Hui's mental health should have barred him from purchasing the handguns he used in the Virginia Tech massacre, according to federal regulations. But it was unclear whether anybody had an obligation to inform federal authorities because of loopholes in the law that governs background checks.

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VT Killer's Hammer Pose Resembles Movie

One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie, adding to the debate over the influence of pop culture on heinous crimes.

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US: Virginia police express disappointment NBC News, others broadcast shooter's statements

The disturbing video of an armed Cho Seung-Hui delivering a snarling tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs" had some marginal value to the official investigation, but it didn't add much that police didn't already know, State Police said Thursday. The self-made video and photos of Cho pointing guns as if he were imitating a movie poster were mailed to NBC on the morning of the Virginia Tech massacre. A Postal Service time stamp reads 9:01 a.m. — between the two attacks that left 33 people dead. "This is it. This is where it all ends," Cho says in one videotape, in which he appears to be more melancholy than angry. "What a life it was. Some life." "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," Cho says in one, with a snarl on his lips. NBC said the package contained a rambling and often incoherent 23-page written statement, 28 video clips and 43 photos. It was given to State Police but contained little that they didn't already know, Col. Steve Flaherty said.

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Va. Tech Shooter Was Laughed At

Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in suburban Washington, former classmates say.

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Va. Tech Stunned by Images of Gunman

Restaurant patrons cringed and mothers turned their children away from the television as the video came up of an armed Cho Seung-Hui delivering a snarling, venomous tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs."

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Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office.

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In his deranged message to the world, Cho Seung-Hui, the murderer of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech, credited Columbine High School killers "Eric and Dylan" as his inspiration.

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With such a strong guarantee on students' "freedom from censorship and control" by the university, student Troy Scheffler's e-mail must have been horrifically bad to warrant such a crackdown. Right? Wrong.

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excerpt: "Details of Mr. Cho's experience in special education, which are only now coming to light, suggest that high schools may be paying too much attention to the academic advancement of bright but troubled students and not enough to their emotional disorders.

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By aligning himself with Cho Seung-hui, Kenneth Eng is perpetuating the thing he seems to hate most.

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Having pissed people off with his column, "Why I Hate Black People," Kenneth Eng decided to move on to showing what a psychopath he can really be by praising the fortitude of the Virginia Tech killer. He's now in police custody for threatening the life of a neighbor.

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"Sydney - An Australian man has sparked a storm of protest after creating an online computer game based on the murderous shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in the United States in April.

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In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, schools around the country are on high alert for any suspicious activity on the part of their students.

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School shootings: A political issue?

The politics involved in the passing of gun control laws are undoubtedly enormous, given that there has been no foreseeable progress after so many years of high profile school shootings.

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Very interesting series of opinion articles written by Christopher Lockwood of The Economist and David Kopel of the Independence Institute, hosted by the LA Times.

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This may be one case where the "better late than never" adage does not at all apply.

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Is the Second Amendment Still Relevant?

There are already a host of articles on newsvine defending and deploring the second amendment in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday.

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In the video and still images sent to NBC News, the killer responsible for 32 deaths before shooting himself at Virginia Tech this week apparently acted out scenes from an extremely violent South Korean film that won acclaim from U.S. reviewers.

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On Monday, April 16 2007 the news out of Blacksburg, VA rocked the nation, exposing mass hysteria and the nation's profound inability to cope with social crises.

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An excellent analysis of the serial killer Seung-hui Cho that analyzes his personality traits, mentality, history, family, sociological implications, and what pushed him to the edge. It provides an in-depth analysis on our current American society and identity.

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FoxNews (Fair and Balanced?) has come out with a brilliant expose about the real killer at Virginia Tech: the Prince of Lies, the Lord of Darkness, the Great Deceiver--Satan himself.

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"I'm just so shaken by this, I don't know what to say." Chastity Frye says she spent an hour, all alone, with Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui last month.

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"I had to do it. What other choice did you give me?"

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Smerconish was interviewing Camille Paglia, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, who was quoted in the April 22 edition of the Sunday Times of London as saying, "Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex witho …

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Eyewitnesses at Monday's Virginia Tech massacre described a chaotic scene in which some professors fought back against Cho Seung-Hui, a group of students blocked off their classroom door, and many others sought safety under their desks.

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On Jan. 16, 2002, Peter Odighizuwa, a 43-year-old student from Nigeria, walked into the Appalachian School of Law offices of Dean Anthony Sutin, 42, a former acting assistant U.S.

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The New York Times reported on April 19 that across the United States, Koreans have braced for harassment in the wake of the Monday shooting rampage left 33 dead, which includes shooter Cho Seung-hui.

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Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune notes the strange decision by NBC to put its NBC News logo and the NBC peacock, "in all its multicolored glory," on the videos and photos that it released of Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui.

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Police and EMT workers at Virginia Tech tell us that campus police were given a federal order to stand down and not pursue killer Cho Seung-Hui as Monday's bloodshed unfolded.

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One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie, adding to the debate over the influence of pop culture on heinous crimes.

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Refusing to change, society eventually goes on as if nothing ever happened, considering it a freak accident of one person's mental disturbance.

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