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| Virginia massacre gunman is named |
| Police have named a student who shot dead at least 30 people at a US university as Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old from South Korea
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 17-April-2007
10:28:36 AM |
| He was studying English and had been living on the university campus. He killed himself after the rampage.
Police said a gun found at the scene was also used at an earlier shooting in which two people were killed.
It was the worst school attack in US history. A memorial service is to be held at the university on Tuesday.
US President George Bush and his wife Laura are expected to attend.
Locations of Virginia Tech campus shootings
The shootings on Monday occurred in two separate locations, two hours apart.
The first took place at 0715 (1215 GMT), at West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory.
Then, at about 0915 (1415 GMT), 30 people were killed in the second shooting at Norris Hall, about half a mile (800 metres) from the first, on the same campus.
Police confirmed that two handguns - 9mm and 22mm weapons - were recovered at the scene of the second shooting, and that one of them was also used in the first incident.
"It's certainly reasonable for us to assume that Cho was the shooter in both places," police said.
However, they have not ruled out that a second gunman could have been involved.
Police said Cho Seung-hui was a South Korean living legally in the US.
Larry Hincker, associate vice president for university relations at Virginia Tech, described him as a "loner", and said officials had difficulty finding information about him.
At a press conference on Tuesday the superintendent of Virginia state police, Colonel Steve Flaherty, described the scene of the massacre.
"Personal effects were strewn about the entire second floor of Norris Hall so it made it much more difficult for us to identify students and faculty members that were victims," he said.
"Victims were found in at least four classrooms as well as a stairwell. We know that there were a number of heroic events that took place within minutes of this tragedy unfolding.
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