European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 182007 stars and stripes Page 11 Virginia tech rampage writings by gunman raised some concern by Adam Geller the associated press Blacksburg a the gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia tech massacre that left 33 people dead was de scribed tuesday As a sullen loner whose creative writing in English class was so disturbing that he was referred to the schools coun seling service news reports also said that he May have been taking medication for depression that he was be coming increasingly violent and erratic and that he left a note in his dorm in which he railed against Rich kids Debauch Ery and deceitful charlatans on Campus Cho seun Hui a 23yearold senior majoring in English arrived in the United states As boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington do officials said he was living on Campus in a different dorm from the one where mondays Bloodbath began police and University officials offered no clues As to exactly what set him off on the deadliest shooting rampage in Modem us history he was a loner and were hav ing difficulty finding information about him school spokesman Larry Hincker said tuesday afternoon thousands of people gathered in the Basket Ball Arena and when it filled up thousands More filed into the foot Ball stadium for a memorial ser vice for the victims tuesday president Bush and first lady Laura Bush attended Virginia tech president Charles Steger received a 30sec Ond standing ovation despite bit Ter complaints from parents and students that the University should have locked Down the Cam pus immediately after the first Charles Peter Dolan 21 from Richmond a Center queues with hundreds of students tuesday to attend the convocation burst of gunfire school officials spoke of our shared grief and the senselessness of mondays shooting meanwhile a chilling portrait of the gunman As a misfit began to emerge professor Carolyn rude chair woman of the University English department said she did not know Cho but she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy the depart Evan thousands of students on tuesday line up to attend a memorial ser vice on the Virginia tech Campus in Blacksburg a Peter Cihelka the Potomac Vaj a Fairfax county a police car sits tuesday outside the townhouse Complex in Centreville a where the Man suspected of carrying out the Virginia tech massacre that left 33 people dead resided ments director of creative writ ing who had Cho in one of her classes and described him As troubled there was some concern about him rude said some times in creative writing people reveal things and you never know if if s creative or if there describing things if there imagining things or just How real it might be but were All Alert to not ignore things like this she said Cho was referred to the counselling service but she said she did not know when or what the outcome was rude re fused to release any of his writ Ings or his grades citing privacy Laws the Chicago Tribune reported on its web site that he left a note in his dorm room that included a rambling list of grievances citing unidentified sources the Tribune said he had recently shown troubling signs including setting a fire in a dorm room and stalking some women Abc citing Law enforcement sources reported that the note several pages Long explains chos actions and says you caused me to do this investigators believe Cho at some Point had been taking medi cation for depression the Tri Bune reported classmates said that on the first Day of an introduction to Brit ish literature class last year the 30 or so English students went around and introduced them selves when it was chos turn he didst speak the professor looked at the signing Sheet and where every one else had written their names Cho had written a question Mark is your name question Mark classmate Julie Poole recalled the professor asking the Young Man offered Little response Cho spent much of that class sit Ting in the Back of the room Wear ing a hat and Seldom participating in a Small department Cho distinguished himself for being Anonymous he didst reach out to anyone he never talked Poole said we just really knew him As the question Mark kid Poole said the rampage consisted of two attacks More than two hours apart first at a dormitory where two people were killed then inside a classroom building where 31 people including Cho died after being locked inside Vir Ginia state police said Cho committed suicide two handguns a 9 my and a 22caliber were found in the classroom building one Law enforcement official said chos Backpack contained a receipt for a March Purchase of a Glock 9 my pistol Cho held a Green card meaning he was a Legal permanent resident Feder Al officials said that meant he was eligible to buy a handgun unless he had been convicted of a Fel ony investigators stopped Short of saying Cho carried out both at tacks but ballistics tests show one gun was used in both Virginia state police said and two Law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced said chos fingerprints were found on both guns the serial numbers on the two weapons had been filed off the officials said col Steve Flaherty superintendent of the Virginia state police said it was reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both attacks but that the link was not yet definitive theres no Evi Dence of any accomplice at either event but were exploring the possibility he said officials said Cho graduated from Westfield High school in Chantilly a in 2003 his family lived in an of White two Story townhouse in Centreville a some of the victims Ross Abdallah Alameddine 20 of Saugus mass according to his Mother Lynnette Alameddine Ryan Clark 22 of Martinez a biology and English major according to Columbia county Coro Ner Vernon Collins Clark Jocelyn Coutur Nowak a French instructor according to her husband Jerzy Nowak Daniel Perez Cueva 21 killed in his French class Accord ing to his Mother Betty Cueva Kevin Granata age unknown engineering science and mechanics professor according to Ishwar k Puri the head of the engineering science and mechanics department Caitlin Hammaren 19 of Westtown by a Sophomore majoring in International studies and French according to min sink Valley by school officials Jeremy Herbstritt 27 of Bellefonte a according to Penn state University his Alma mater and his fathers employer Emily Jane Hilscher a 19yearold freshman from Wood Ville a according to Rappahahn Nock county administrator John w Mccarthy Jarrett l Lane according to rifles funeral service inc in Narrows a Matthew j la Porte 20 a freshman from Dumont no according to Dumont police chief Brian Venezio Liviu Librescu 76 Engineer ing science and mathematics lec Turer according to Puri go to Vanaman 51 civil and environmental Engineer ing professor Accord ing to his brother Daniel Tomeil 22 according to close Friend Steve Craveiro and according to Eric Cardenas of Connecticut College where Neils father works Juan Ramon Ortiz a 26yearold graduate student in engineering from Bayamon puerto Rico according to his wife Mary Karen read 19 of Annandale a according to her aunt Karen Kup pinger of Rochester by Reema j Samaha 18 a fresh Man Accord ing to her family Librescu Samaha Best copy