VTech: Ongoing press conference details

Here are a few more details from the ongoing press conferences today, as reported by Fox and ABC news. 1. The gunman was identified as Cho Seung-Hui. 2. Cho was senior English major 3. He was born in South Korea but was brought up near the Washington D.C. area. 4. He has a student visa. 5. He was considered an outcast, and documents were found that shows Cho wrote about killing other students and professors. 6. He bought the first pistol on March 13, and the second gun a week before the shootings. 7. The police suspect it was an act of revenge against his girl friend breaking up with him and her new boyfriend. 8. One of the pistols was a 9 mm, the other a 22 mm. 9. The purchasing records of the firearms show a strong characteristic of premeditation by the killer. 10. Cho took medication for depression. 11. No one in his class even noticed him. 12. The governor of Virginia has declared a state of emergency. 13. President Bush has ordered all flags to be half mast for the rest of the week as it is a national day of mourning. 14. There were two bomb threats within the two weeks before the shootings. 15. The medical coroner is still working to process all the evidence. 16. Both crime scenes have been linked by one of the two guns found. Ballistics found a positive match. 17. There currently is no suicide note from the killer.

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