Cho sent package to NBC before shooting

Picture after dorm shootings, but before classroom
Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building Monday morning, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News a rambling communication and videos about his grievances, the network said Wednesday.

Cho, 23, a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, killed 32 people in two attacks before taking his own life.

NBC News President Steve Capus said the network received the package in Wednesday morning's mail delivery and immediately turned the material over to FBI agents in New York. The FBI is assisting Virginia State Police in the investigation.

The package included a long, “rambling, manifesto-like statement embedded with a series of photographs,” Capus said. The material is “hard-to-follow ... disturbing, very disturbing — very angry, profanity-laced,” he said.

It does not include any images of the shootings Monday, but it does include “vague references,” including “things like ‘This didn’t have to happen,’ ” Capus said in an interview late Wednesday afternoon.
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College Students Speak

Inside the Mind of a Killer

Pictured left are Seung-Hui Cho's dormitory roommates, Joseph Aust and Karan Grewel.Joseph Aust and Karan Grewal, steered clear of Cho when they lived with him. They said Cho was quiet and didn't interact with them.

"He pretty much never talked at all," Aust said. "I tried to make conversation with him earlier in the year. … He gave one-word answers. He pretty much never looked me in the eye."

Though Cho's behavior was always strange, Aust said he noticed some changes in recent weeks.

"The last couple weeks [he] was getting up at 6 [in the morning] or even 5:30," Aust said. "And a couple of days ago, he actually got back to the room at about 2 in the afternoon and slept until 5 the next day."

Cho also had an imaginary girlfriend named "Jelly," who was a supermodel, said those roommates.

Cho's roommates said they didn't think they could have done anything differently to reach out to Cho and change what had happened.

"After the freshman year, you don't probe too much if people don't actively converse with you," roommate Grewal said . "I think I'd be scared if I tried any harder. I could have made him angry and act violently towards me."
(Reference: ABC News)

Do you think that it is possible to reach out to a person, regardless of their mental state, or are there some people that are going to accomplish what they set out to do regardless?

Cho Seung-Hui's Plays

Cho Seung-Hui showed signs prior to the shootings that he had serious problems. We have obtained links to two plays written by Cho confirming this. Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Cho and AOL employee submitted them:

 

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