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Police: VT Gunman Stalked 2 Women
CBNNews.com
April 18, 2007
CBNNews.com - The rap sheet for Cho Seung-Hui is seemingly growing longer and longer, with police saying that Cho had previously been accused of stalking two female students.
Also, back in 2005 he had been admitted to a mental health facility when his parents parents feared their son might me suicidal, police said.
But Cho's strange history and behavior don't seem to come as much of a surprise to the people who knew the 23-year old. Some are coming forward, describing the suspected gunman as a very disturbed and troubled individual.
"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,'" Ian MacFarlane, a blogger for AOL.com, wrote on his blog Tuesday.
MacFarlane took a playwriting class with Cho last semester. On his blog, he said Cho was extremely standoffish and would not interact with his classmates.
"I don't think I've ever actually heard his voice before. He was just so quiet and kept to himself," MacFarlane wrote.
Students in this class were required to write plays for their classmates to critique. MacFarlane says Cho's works were "something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of."
One of Cho's plays dealt with child molestation and murder. In it, a 13-year-old boy is killed by his stepfather.
Because of the extreme graphic language and content, CBNNews.com has decided not to publish links to the AOL blog and the plays MacFarlane referenced on Web site.
The AOL.com blogger went on the say he often wondered what he would do if Cho ever brought a gun to class.
"I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him," MacFarlane added.
Recent reports from other national media have disclosed that when Cho took a creative writing class, his works were so unsettling his professor referred him to school counselors.
Cho sat in the back of the classroom and rarely participated in classroom discussion according to an Associated Press report.
"He didn't reach out to anyone. He never talked," classmate Julie Poole said. "We just really knew him as the question mark kid."
On one occasion, the professor had students sign in for class. Everyone wrote their names on the sheet, but Cho wrote a "question mark."
According to Poole, the professor asked Cho, "Is your name, `Question mark?"'
Cho barely responded.
"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," school spokesman Larry Hincker said.
Monday's rampage left 32 people dead on Virginia tech's campus, before Cho killed himself.
Source: AOL.com, AP
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