US school gunman was South Korean: police
Posted: 17 April 2007 2138 hr
BLACKSBURG, Virginia - The gunman who killed at least 30 people in
a US university was a 23-year-old South Korean student identified
as Cho Seung-Hui, police confirmed Tuesday.
"He was a 23-year-old South Korean here in the US as a resident
alien," Virginia Tech University campus police chief Wendell
Flinchum said in a news conference, adding that the man's name was
Cho Seung-Hui.
Cho was an undergraduate student in his senior year majoring in
English, Flinchum said. He lived on campus at the Harper Hall
dormitory and his residence was established in Centreville,
Virginia.
Police suspect Cho was the shooter in two incidents in Virginia
Tech buildings which happened just over two hours apart, killing 32
people before turning the gun on himself in the worst school
shooting in US history.
Virginia Tech is an engineering and research university with about
26,000 full-time students, many of which are on foreign exchange
programmes. - AFP/ir
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