The man who police say massacred at least 30 people at Virginia Tech Monday had written violent stories a year before his rampage, according to the graduate director of the Virginia Tech English Department.
Carolyn Rude said she did not have an exact timeline of when Cho Seung-Hui wrote the stories, which were written in creative-writing classes. Cho was pursuing a degree in English.
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“There were problems in those classes,” she said. Asked if Cho had written violent material, Rude said, “That’s my understanding.”
Rude said the violent writing was reported to the English Department, which reported it to the Tech administration. It’s not clear if anything was done by the administration.
Cho was in the country legally and listed Centreville as his legal United States residence. He was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in one of the classrooms in Norris Hall, site of the second shooting.
Law enforcement officials said ballistic tests link one of the guns Cho used in his massacre at Norris Hall to the fatal shooting of a man and woman earlier Monday morning in the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory. They did not, however, confirm Cho is responsible for the first killings. The two attacks, which occurred about two hours apart, constitute the bloodiest day on an American campus in history.
Examiner Staff Writers Joe Rogalsky and David Francis contributed to this report.
