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Video: The Early Show-Survivor Forgives Shooter
Original at AOL Video
• Sat, Apr 11
Harry Smith speaks with wounded Virginia Tech student Garrett Evans, who says he has forgiven Cho Seung-Hui for nearly killing him during a random ... video.aol.com
Video: CBS Evening News-Shooter Seen As Unstable
Original at AOL Video
• Sat, Mar 28
Two years prior to the massacre at Virginia Tech, the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, checked himself into a mental institution. Sharyn Alfonsi has the ... video.aol.com
Video: 48 Hours-The Weapon Cho Used
Original at AOL Video
• Fri, Mar 13
Police say Cho Seung-Hui used a 9mm Glock to commit the murders at Virginia Tech on Monday. A 9mm weapon was used in the Columbine School ... video.aol.com
Video: No New Links to Va. Tech Shooter, Victims
Original at AOL Video
• Wed, Feb 25
Nearly four months after Seung Hui Cho shot 32 people to death at Virginia Tech, authorities said Friday they have found nothing linking the ... video.aol.com
Video: Saints Row 2: Virginia Tech Style Campus MassacreOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Jan 24
By rss@youtube.com (jesuscharitytime) In this video the character editor of Saints Row 2 re-creates Cho Seung-Hui the South Korean man who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University on April 16, 2007 with2 Glock Handguns (pistols). This video shows a character that looks just like him down to the very clothes he was wearing du...
Video: Can Antidepressants Cause Violence?Original at Google Video
• Mon, Nov 3
What your Doctor isn't Telling You. Psychiatry vs. Physical Medicine Dr. Moria Dolan, Executive Director for the Medical Accountability Network discusses the link between antidepressants medications and suicide, violence and school shootings. Seung-hui Cho w/ the Virginia Tech mass...
Deeds in favor of involving Review Panel in Cho record investigation, McDonnell defers to Kaine
Original at Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition
• Thu, Aug 6
By Zach Crizer, news editor Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds sent a letter to families affected by the Virginia Tech shootings, saying he will "support efforts" to share Seung-Hui Cho's newly discovered mental health records with the Virginia Tech Review Panel.
Va. man accused of threatening official in letter
Original at Sacramento Bee
• Fri, Dec 5
Le, who worked for the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, was arrested Wednesday. Authorities said he also had threatened in the letter to orchestrate a massacre worse than the Virginia Tech shootings. Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech before committing suicide in April...
Mary Beth Pfeiffer: The Mental Health System in America is Broken
Original at Huffington Post
• Thu, Jun 21
By Mary Beth Pfeiffer The public needs to know every step of the path taken by Seung-Hui Cho on his way to the worst school shooting in American history. And while gun laws and campus security deserve scrutiny, a central focus of investigation needs to be the functioning of the mental health system.
V-Tech Rampage Flash Based Video Game Released
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, May 14
By Matt Paprocki Already drawing comparisons to Super Columbine Massacre RPG, an online, fan made Virginia Tech shooting game has appeared on Newgrounds.com as reported by Gamepolitics.com. Created by a user with the name PiGPEN, the game has players taking control of the shooter Seung-Hui Cho as he begi...
Bill Katovsky: Deconstructing Cho: Perspective from a College Creative Writer Instructor
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Apr 24
By Bill Katovsky With that said, as both a writer and college writing teacher, I took interest in Virginia Tech student Cho Sueng-Hui's creative work published online. At first I had to deal with the guilt of "Oh, this is the exact thing that the mass killer would have wanted." But placed in the context of tryi...
Podcast: Race, identity and the Virginia Tech tragedy
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Tue, Apr 24
By podcasts@sfgate.com (Benny Evangelista) The tragedy at Virginia Tech shocked the nation and the world. It also highlighted issues of race and identity because the gunman was identified as Seung-Hui Cho , a native of South Korea who...
Who's Really Culpable In The VT Massacre Blame Game?
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Apr 22
By Mark Edward Manning Who do I blame for the Virginia Tech gun massacre? The psychiatrist who let Seung-Hui Cho get away. Cho was taken into custody on December 13, 2005 after having harassed two women. Neither young woman pressed charges, but Cho underwent a psychiatric evaluation that had declared him mental...
The Peacock Inside Pandora's Box: NBC News and the Virginia Tech Shootings
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Apr 20
By Cameron Archer It's obvious NBC News is airing Cho Seung-Hui's videos for publicity. Does anyone really need to know what was in his mind, given the established fact that he had a history of mental illness? Cho Seung-Hui is responsible for the largest mass shooting committed by a single person in America...
Chris Kelly: Michael Medved on Virginia Tech: Words Fail
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, Apr 20
By Chris Kelly Okay, calm down, pee-berry. Let's slip a bedpan under this and think about it for a second. I thought we were talking about the shooter at Virginia Tech, Cho Seung-Hui. Who's the "they" who have to be destroyed? Schizophrenics? Koreans? English majors?
Op Ed: SmartBomb Author on Va Tech Shooting
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Apr 20
About 24 hours after Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and then himself, I received an email from an editor at a New York newspaper asking me to write a piece about violent videogames. And as the Virginia Tech shootings reminds us once again, anyone who wants a gun can get o...
Opinion: VA Tech killer's digital vanity package (NPR News "Xeni Tech")
Original at Boing Boing
• Thu, Apr 19
By Xeni Jardin Previously on BB: VA Tech: Cho sent "multimedia manifesto" to NBC; Siva on tech judgement rush VA Tech shootings: world perspective VA Tech shootings: SMS alert systems, more "copycat" discussion VA Tech shootings: Wikipedia, federal drug records database VA Tech Shootings: Cho Seu...
Should NBC Have Aired the Va Tech Killer’s Video?Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB
• Thu, Apr 19
By James Joyner Hugh Hewitt strenuously objects to NBC’s decision to air the video made by Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hi, implying in his title that it may have been “The Single Worst Editorial Decision In The History Of Broadcast News.”
Alexandra Zacharios-Haight: National Security & Mental Health Intelligence: Cho Seung-Hui and the Virginia Tech Tragedy
Original at Huffington Post
• Wed, Apr 18
By Alexandra Zacharios-Haight Here's what we know so far about Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter at Virginia Tech. He was a 23-year-old student from South Korea majoring in English and has lived in the U.S. since 1992. He was also, "...a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," according to school spokesma...
VA Tech: Cho sent "multimedia manifesto" to NBC; Siva on tech judgement rush
Original at Boing Boing
• Wed, Apr 18
By Xeni Jardin Siva Vaidhyanathan has posted an op-ed for MSNBC.com about the rush to "technological judgement" after the Virginia Tech shootings: Over the next few days, as we wonder about causes and mourn those who fell victim to gunfire at Virginia Tech University on Monday, we will hear many ferven...
System Failed Va Tech Students
Original at Riehl World View
• Wed, Apr 18
By Dan In 2005, after a district court in Montgomery County, Va., ruled that Cho was either a danger to himself or to others -- the necessary criteria for a detention order -- he was evaluated by a state doctor and ordered to undergo outpatient care.
Who's the Korean Tipper Gore?
Original at Hit and Run
• Wed, Apr 18
By dweigel@reason.com (David Weigel) Australia, 1996, Port Arthur massacre. Martin Bryant, using two semi-automatic weapons, a CAR-15 and an L1A1 SLR, killed 35 United States, 2007. Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-hui, a South Korean, killed at least 33, including himself
Bloodbath in Virginia: Blame, Panic and Unreasoning Fear
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Apr 18
By Dave Nalle On Monday Cho Seung-Hui decided to move on from writing violent revenge fantasies in English class to express his rage more publicly in an orgy of bullets, blood and death. He ended his own life and the lives of 32 others, and earned a place in the record books as one of the most successful mass...
Limbaugh: Games Aren't To Blame
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Apr 17
With yesterday's shooting at Virginia Tech grabbing headlines and the flood of theories as to why Cho Seung Hui killed 33 people bringing the agenda-driven rats from the rising sewers, you might be surprised at what talk show host Rush Limbaugh, so called America's Truth Detector, had t...
VA Tech Shootings: Cho Seung-Hui, murderer and playwright?
Original at Boing Boing
• Tue, Apr 17
By Xeni Jardin An AOL employee and former classmate of the accused killer writes, 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."
VA Tech mass shooting: Who or what is Ismail Ax? UPDATED
Original at Boing Boing
• Tue, Apr 17
By Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: B. Frank says, The Virginia Tech shooter [Cho Seung-Hui] had the words "“Ismail Ax"” written in red ink on his arm, according to this blog from the Chicago Tribune. AX may also stand for the Alpha Chi Omega women’s fraternity, which I found does have a chapter at Virginia Tech.