Va. Tech Gunman Wrote of Shooting
In a college English paper that reportedly wasn’t disclosed to some investigators and review panels looking into the Virginia Tech massacre, the gunman wrote of a fictional high school shooting that eerily resembles his subsequent crimes a year later.
Although the paper by Seung Hui Cho has been provided to police, several review panels didn’t receive it and an FBI agent on the case said he had never heard of it, writes the Washington Post in a lengthy page one story. According to the Post, some of what Cho said in a videotape that he made in between several of the shootings echoes what is said in his paper.
Cho shot 32 students and faculty to death before committing suicide on April 16. His troubled mental history, as well as what college officials and others could have done to help prevent the massacre, have been among the major issues being discussed in a series of reviews intended to help avoid such tragedies in the future.
