Gunman ID'd as student; tests tie same gun to both attacks
By ADAM GELLER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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April 17, 2007, 9:48 AM EDT
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea was
behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a campus
building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history,
the university said Tuesday.
Ballistics tests also show that one of the guns inside that
building was used in another shooting two hours earlier, at a dorm,
Virginia State Police said.
Police identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from
South Korea who was in the English department at Virginia Tech and
lived on campus.
"It's certainly reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in
both cases," but authorities haven't made the link for sure, said
Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State
Police.
