"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today,but you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
"You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience,you thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."
"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats, Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."
By MATT APUZZO and SHARON COHEN, Associated Press Writers 27 minutes ago
BLACKSBURG, Va. - In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth. When he finally did, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: "Go back to China."
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As such details of the Virginia Tech shooter's life come out, and experts pore over his sick and twisted writings and his videotaped rant, it is becoming increasingly clear that Cho was almost a textbook case of a school shooter: a painfully awkward, picked-on young man who lashed out with methodical fury at a world he believed was out to get him.
"In virtually every regard, Cho is prototypical of mass killers that I've studied in the past 25 years," said Northeastern University criminal justice professor James Alan Fox, co-author of 16 books on crime. "That doesn't mean, however, that one could have predicted his rampage."
When criminologists and psychologists look at mass murders, Cho fits the themes they see repeatedly: a friendless figure, someone who has been bullied, someone who blames others and is bent on revenge, a careful planner, a male. And someone who sent up warning signs with his strange behavior long in advance.
Among other things, the 23-year-old South Korean immigrant was sent to a psychiatric hospital and pronounced an imminent danger to himself. He was accused of stalking two women and photographing female students in class with his cell phone. And his violence-filled writings were so disturbing he was removed from one class, and professors begged him to get counseling. He rarely looked anyone in the eye and did not even talk to his own roommates.
Cho, who killed 32 people and committed suicide at the Blacksburg campus Monday, cast himself in his video diatribe as a persecuted figure like Jesus Christ. Cho, who came to the U.S. at about age 8 in 1992 and whose parents worked at a dry cleaners in suburban Washington, also ranted against rich "brats" with Mercedes, gold necklaces, cognac and trust funds.
Classmates in Virginia, where Cho grew up, said he was teased and picked on, apparently because of shyness and his strange, mumbly way of speaking.
Once, in English class at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., when the teacher had the students read aloud, Cho looked down when it was his turn, said Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior and high school classmate. After the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho began reading in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
"The whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.
Stephanie Roberts, 22, a classmate of Cho's at Westfield High, said she never witnessed anyone picking on Cho in high school. But she said friends of hers who went to middle school with him told her they recalled him getting bullied there.
"There were just some people who were really mean to him and they would push him down and laugh at him," Roberts said. "He didn't speak English really well and they would really make fun of him."
Cho's great aunt, who lives in South Korea, said Thursday that because he did not speak much as a child and after the family emigrated to the United States, doctors thought he may be autistic.
"Normally sons and mothers talk. There was none of that for them. He was very cold," Kim Yang-soon said in an interview with AP Television News. "When they went to the United States, they told them it was autism."
Neither school officials, who have his educational records, nor police who have his medical records, have mentioned such a diagnosis this week. Autistic individuals often have difficulty communicating, but such a diagnosis would not necessarily explain his violence.
Regan Wilder, 21, who attended Virginia Tech, high school and middle school with Cho, said she was sure Cho probably was picked on in middle school, but so was everyone else. And it didn't seem as if English was the problem for him, she said. If he didn't speak English well, there were several other Korean students he could have reached out to for friendship, but he didn't.
秦书包 发表评论于
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho
Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and
the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in the Washington suburbs,
former classmates say.
Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High
School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean
immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike
up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it
was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally,
after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to
read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his
mouth,'' Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and
pointing and saying, `Go back to China,''' Davids said.
I don't agree with the blogger's conclusion. This incident reflects the failure of the American Education System. No one reached out to save the killer's soul. Even though there were so many warning signs of a troubled mind, the society in general just ignored him and let him choose how to live or end his own life. He was abnormal and his action was hideous. But he was not BORN that way. Over ten years of exposure in a free country did not bring out the best in him.
This is a tragedy and a wake-up call for us to fall back on the value sand virtues of pre-internet age. Teach our children RESPECT in stead of REVENGE. Take away their video games or at least limit their time spent on those killing games. Plant a tree instead and watch the tree grow everyday.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when
it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally,
after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started
to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in
his mouth," Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing
and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.
"vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience"
这些话具体指什么事情？
落叶归根 发表评论于
他的文字之间充满仇恨，只是还不清楚，这种仇恨是从那里来的。
darwin 发表评论于
There is nothing to do with Asian or whatever races and nationalities. Such insane people exist in every country. I would say in Asian culture, most likely such people are produced less than in culturally more aggressive western countries.
wake up! Don't relate whatever bad things to Asian culture.
Crazy guys are seen in all societies, all racial groups. Not only from Asian. I think statistically, education in Asian families are more successful.
kizomba 发表评论于
I agree that the education from some Asian parents are problematic. One good example is my coworker, who was brought here during high school and still struggling with his own self identity: American? Chinese? Taiwanese? I can sense he hates himself because he is Chinese. He really admires people who makes a lot of money. He loves guns. He doesn't have friends. Does this sound like another Cho? Myself and my coworkers think so. The only difference is he talks although his talk always make people feel uncomfortable.
As for the influence of mainstream religion, I think it may play a negative role. Remember a lot of Koreans are Christians. Some church teachings can push a person like Cho to the limit. Especially in Old Testment, there are a lot of stories about people being prosecuted by the majority but eventuaully win with the help of God. Those people in our eyes may well be loners. Their eventual victories are usually pretty bloody.
not completely accurate. i actually know a few cases of young kids came to u.s. from asian countries that some how the kids developed some mental problem of various degrees. it is probably related to many reasons, not just the parents. nothing is that simple.
A list of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech:
Killed:
· Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., according to his mother, Lynnette Alameddine.
· Christopher James Bishop, 35, according to Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany, where he helped run an exchange program.
· Brian Bluhm, 25, a civil engineering graduate student, according to an announcement by the Detroit Tigers and friends. He had previously lived in Iowa, Detroit and Louisville, Ky.
· Ryan Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., biology and English major, according to Columbia County Coroner Vernon Collins.
· Austin Cloyd, an international studies major from Blacksburg, Va., according to Terry Harter, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Champaign, Ill., where Cloyd and her family lived before moving to Blacksburg.
· Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French instructor, according to her husband, Jerzy Nowak, the head of the horticulture department at Virginia Tech.
· Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, killed in his French class, according to his mother, Betty Cueva, of Peru.
· Kevin Granata, age unknown, engineering science and mechanics professor, according to Ishwar K. Puri, the head of the engineering science and mechanics department.
· Matthew G. Gwaltney, 24, of Chester, Va., a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, according to his father and stepmother, Greg and Linda Gwaltney.
· Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in international studies and French, according to Minisink Valley, N.Y., school officials who spoke with Hammaren's family.
· Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, of Bellefonte, Pa., according to Penn State University, his alma mater and his father's employer.
· Rachael Hill, 18, of Glen Allen, Va., according to her father, Guy Hill.
· Emily Jane Hilscher, a 19-year-old freshman from Woodville, according to Rappahannock County Administrator John W. McCarthy, a family friend.
· Jarrett L. Lane, 22, of Narrows, Va., according to Riffe's Funeral Service Inc. in Narrows, Va.
· Matthew J. La Porte, 20, a sophomore from Dumont, N.J., according to Dumont Police Chief Brian Venezio.
· Henry J. Lee, also known as Henh Ly, 20, a first-year student majoring in computer engineering from Roanoke, Va., according to Oakey's Funeral Service in Roanoke.
· Liviu Librescu, 76, engineering science and mathematics lecturer, according to Puri.
· G.V. Loganathan, 51, civil and environmental engineering professor, according to his brother G.V. Palanivel.
· Partahi Lombantoruan, 34, of Indonesia, civil engineering doctoral student, according to Kristiarto Legowo, a spokesman for the foreign ministry.
· Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., international studies major, according to a statement from the family.
· Daniel O'Neil, 22, of Rhode Island, according to close friend Steve Craveiro and according to Eric Cardenas of Connecticut College, where O'Neil's father, Bill, is director of major gifts.
· Juan Ramon Ortiz, a 26-year-old graduate student in engineering from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, according to his wife, Liselle Vega Cortes.
· Minal Panchal, 26, a first-year building-science student from Mumbai, India, according to foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna.
· Erin Peterson, 18, of Chantilly, Va., an international studies major, according to her father, Grafton Peterson.
· Michael Pohle, 23, of Flemington, N.J., according to officials at his high school, Hunterdon Central High.
· Julia Pryde, age unknown, a graduate student from Middletown, N.J., according to Virginia Tech professor Saied Mostaghimi, chairman of the biological systems and engineering department.
· Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va. according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y.
· Reema J. Samaha, 18, a freshman from Centreville, Va., according to her family.
· Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, of Zagazig, Egypt, a doctoral student in civil engineering, according to the university.
· Leslie Sherman, a sophomore history and international studies student from Springfield, Va., according to her grandmother Gerry Adams.
· Maxine Turner, 22, a senior majoring in chemical engineering from Vienna, Va., according to her father, Paul Turner.
· Nicole White, 20, a junior majoring in international studies from Smithfield, Va., according to a family statement released by the Suffolk, Va., Police Department.
