Va. Tech Shooter Wasn’t Chinese
Update, 11:00 p.m., Shanghai local time:
Contrary to a Tuesday Chicago Sun-Times report claiming the student who opened fire on a Virginia Tech school building was a Chinese national, it turns out the gunman was a 23-year-old south Korean immigrant named Cho Seung-Hui. According to a CNN story Tuesday, a doctor at a Blacksburg hospital described the injuries of the shooting victims as “amazing” and said, “there wasn’t a shooting victim that didn’t have less than three bullet wounds in them. We saw one patient that had a bullet wound to the wrist, one to the elbow and one to the thigh. We had another one with a bullet wound to the abdomen, one to the chest and one to the head.” He described the shooter as “brutal.” Reportedly, Cho was a loner (big surprise) and investigators had trouble gathering information about him. Police have not determined whether or not Cho is responsible for the dorm room murder-suicide two hours before the massacre. Officials said that Cho’s family has been contacted. The post below was inspired by the erroneous Sun-Times report.
•CNN: Virginia Tech Shooter an English Major, 23