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Category: School Violence
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The other play by Cho Seung-Hui
AOL News has a great piece about Cho Seung-Hui as told by one of his former classmates and has links to the other “play” written by him.
First the ex-classmate and current AOL employee Ian MacFarlane.
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.”
When we read Cho’s plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn’t have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter. 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. When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor didn’t pressure him to give closing comments.
After hearing about the mass shootings, I sent one of my friends a Facebook message asking him if he knew anything about Seung Cho and if he could have been involved. He replied: “dude that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking! No, I haven’t heard anything, but seriously, that was the first thing I thought when I heard he was Asian.”
Now on to the second play by Cho Seung-Hui called “Mr. Brownstone” about two underage kids hanging out in a casino complaining about one of their teachers. It’s not as innocent as it sounds, and Cho seems to have some kind of fascination with shit.
I noticed that both of his plays involve teenagers as protagonists. I wonder if he just couldn’t leave his high school life behind.
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Cho Seung-Hui’s creative writing
Virginia Killer’s Violent Writings:
As usual, The Smoking Gun is there. This time they have the disturbing creative writing of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui. A poorly written and bizarre piece entitled “Richard McBeef” about a 13-year-old kid who accuses his stepfather of murdering his biological father and making pedophilia-like advances on the boy.
If you think this is some poor boy pouring his heart out, guess again.
As I’m fond of saying, this kid had more issues than Reader’s Digest.
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VT shooter left behind note
Sources: College gunman left note:
According to the article, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui left behind a disturbing note in his dorm room.
The note included a rambling list of grievances, according to sources. They said Cho also died with the words “Ismail Ax” in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.
Cho had shown recent signs of violent, aberrant behavior, according to an investigative source, including setting a fire in a dorm room and allegedly stalking some women.
A note believed to have been written by Cho was found in his dorm room that railed against “rich kids,” “debauchery” and “deceitful charlatans” on campus.
Welcome to college Junior. Why in the blue hell did this mean that 32 innocent victims had to lose their lives?
Some faculty members were concerned about Seung-Hui’s state of mental health…
Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university’s English department, said she did not personally know the gunman. But she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy, the department’s director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as “troubled.”
“There was some concern about him,” Rude said. “Sometimes, in creative writing, people reveal things and you never know if it’s creative or if they’re describing things, if they’re imagining things or just how real it might be. But we’re all alert to not ignore things like this.”
She said Cho was referred to the counseling service, but she said she did not know when, or what the outcome was.
Obviously, it wasn’t successful.
And once again, we have another shooter who decided to take the coward’s way out by killing himself before authorities could take him into custody.
I can describe Seung-Hui in the same three words I used to describe all other school shooters. Cowardly fucking scumbag.
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VT Shooter identified
Short article…
Virginia Tech officials today identified the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and then himself on the Blacksburg campus yesterday as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui of Centreville.
Cho was a South Korean native who had immigrated to this country, the university announced on its Web site this morning. He was a senior majoring in English, and lived in a dorm on campus, officials said.
Last night while I was on Shaun OMac Radio. I said that the gunman was from China, as it was reported that his student visa was issued in Shanghai.
I will be on Shaun OMac Radio again tonight at 9:30 ET.
Last night’s show can be heard below.
(It’s long since been deleted.)
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Virginia Tech shootings
I know everyone is expecting me to post about the shootings at Virginia Tech. To be honest with you all, I just returned from a week’s vacation without internet access. I still have a lot of e-mail to catch up on and a lot of information to process. But I will be posting about it.
Also, I’m hoping to be a guest again on Shaun OMac Radio tonight at 9:30 ET to discuss the VT shootings.
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Bartley pleads guilty and is sentenced
Boy agrees to 45 years in school killing:
15-year-old Kenneth Bartley Jr., the gunman in the Campbell County High shooting, has pleaded guilty to the murder of Assistant Principal Ken Bruce and the attempted murders of Principal Gary Seale and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce.
Bartley was sentenced to 45 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder and two charges of second degree attempted murder. Bartley was looking at life sentences if he went to trial.
Personally, I’m pleased with the sentence. I feel that justice has been done.
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Odgren may recover memory
Lawyer Says Teen Charged In School Killing May Recover Memory:
Now that he’s been ruled competent to stand trial, John Odgren’s attorney is saying that Odgren’s memory of the murder of James Alenson may return.
Jonathan Shapiro now tells “The Boston Globe” that the extent and permanence of Odgren’s amnesia is unclear. Last Monday he withdrew a request for a mental competency hearing.
This is after prosecutors planned to hire their own psychologist to do a comprehensive examination that would give them access to all of Odgren’s medical and psychiatric records.
It’s funny how things work out that way.
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Sealed depositions may end study
Sealed depositions may be end of Columbine study:
Read the words of one Professor Del Elliott, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado.
Professor Del Elliott said Tuesday he doubts he will undertake a study into the causes behind the Columbine High School shootings now that depositions of the killers’ parents have been sealed.
In the meantime, the nationally recognized expert on violence prevention said he expects the ruling will translate into more lives lost.
“We’ve not had a chance to learn much about was going on in the lives of (killers) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that precipitated this event,” he said.
“Unfortunately, it’s going to be repeated,” he added, “and maybe then we’ll learn more about the circumstances which lead young people to commit these kinds of horrendous acts.”
I hope you’re paying attention, Judge Lewis Babcock. I hope that robe can help you clean the blood of future victims off your hands.
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Castillo e-mail probably inadmissible as well
Castillo e-mail can’t be linked:
Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the computer evidence being suppressed in the Alvaro Castillo proceedings. Since the computers were ruled inadmissible, the e-mail that Castillo sent to Columbine High School Principal Frank DeAngelis cannot be linked to Castillo.
Again, the videos should be all the prosecution needs.