Gunman kills 32 & commits suicide in the US...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_ ... h_shooting

Still didn't manage to top Port Arthur though.

Aussie, aussie, aussie...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre

yeah, read about that. about time something happened to eclipse that columbine massacre... unless the mass murderer was a goth, though i doubt that.

[Hitman]

Nah, I think he was asian...

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[Chantel]

Disturbed playwright was killer-in-waiting
Wednesday Apr 18 13:00 AEST
By ninemsn staff and wires

The discovery of plays written by the young man responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre has given a frightening insight into the mind behind America's worst peacetime shooting.

South Korean immigrant Cho Seung-Hui indscriminately gunned down 32 people on the Virginia university's campus before taking his own life on Monday.

In a note left in his dormitory before the rampage, Cho reportedly railed against "rich kids".

"You caused me to do this," he wrote in the several-page-long note that complained about "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans."

The note stopped short of offering a full motive for the murders, and attention has turned to two plays written by Cho posted on the internet by a former creative writing classmate.

The plays, "Richard McBeef" and "Mr Brownstone", deal with bizarre and disturbing subject matter such as murder, paedophilia, and fragmented family life.

In the latter play, students plot the killing of an elderly teacher, Mr Brownstone, who they say sodomised "half the class".

"'I wanna watch him bleed like the way he made us kids bleed'," one of the female characters says.

In one particularly violent passage in "Richard McBeef", a boy muses aloud about murdering his father-in-law:

"'I hate him. Must kill Dick. Must kill Dick. Dick must die … kill Dick.'"

The play ends with the boy ramming a cereal bar into his father-in-law's mouth, who responds by killing the boy.

"The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of," wrote Ian McFarland, the classmate who posted the plays online.

Lucinda Roy, director of creative writing at Virginia Tech's English department, had Cho in one of her classes and described the 23-year-old as "troubled."

"There was some concern about him," said Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the department. "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."

It has been reported that Cho was referred to the university's counselling service, but the outcome of the session is unknown.

Prof Rude refused to release any of his writings or his grades, citing privacy laws.

Harrowing accounts of bravery and survival emerged as thousands of students, many wearing the orange-and-maroon colors of the school, gathered on campus for a memorial service attended by President George Bush and his wife, Laura.

Distraught family members and friends kept up a vigil for news of loved ones still missing after the massacre. Chief Virginia medical examiner Marcella Fierro said it would take several days to identify all the victims.

The mass shooting came almost eight years to the day after two students ran amok in Columbine High School, killing 13 people and themselves, and six months after a lone gunman shot dead five people at an Amish school in Pennsylvania.

As world leaders offered their condolences, the South Korean government expressed "indescribable surprise and shock" after the gunman was identified as a South Korean.

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Wow, gotta watch out for these South Korean dudes...

A South Korean man is also responsible for the worst incident of spree killing in known history, killing 58 people in 1982...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-Kon

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Woo Bum Kon...

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Bum

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Woo Bum

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