Cofused about the Virginia Tech massacre...?

Question

Ok so i know he 1st killed two people in the dormitories? those two were intended victims. (his x-girlfriend and her boy friend). i believe after his gf broke up with him he couldn't take it so he killed her and her boyfriend. ok i understand that.

but what i do not understand is why 2 hours later he went to Norris Hall (or whatever it is called) and went into the classrooms and started killing them? why? what does the people in the those classrooms have to do with his gf and him?

Answer 1

Cho first went to West Ambler Johnston Hall Dormitory at about 7:15 am. He shot Emily J. Hilscher his "alleged" (fantasized?) girlfriend (he had stalked other girls) and Ryan Clark the resident advisor (not her boyfriend). Her boyfriend described in the news as a "person of interest" was first detained by security because they thought he was the killer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_Massacre#Students

WHY did Cho go to Norris Hall and start killing others? Well, he planned it. He brought chains to chain the door and he brought two handguns and at least 50 bullets. He planned a rampage.

The shooter wore bluejeans, a blue jacket and a vest holding ammunition, witnesses said. He carried a 9-milimeter semiautomatic (purchased March 13) and aWalther P-22, (.22-caliber) handgun (was purchased Feb. 9 at a pawnshop in Blacksburg.), both with the serial numbers obliterated, federal law enforcement officials said. Witnesses described the shooter as a young man of Asian descent -- a silent killer who was calm and showed no expression as he pursued and shot his victims. He killed himself as police closed in.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/16/AR2007041600533_pf.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/first_gun_bough.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/page/2/

Cho bought a Glock 9mm handgun, on March 13 at a Roanoke, Va. gun store. Markell, the owner of the gun store, said Cho's gun and a box of 50 bullets cost $571.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/massacre_gun_57.html

He had ammunition strapped across his chest as he calmly walked from room to room refilling his two handguns as he shot students.

He chained the doors of several classrooms to stop anyone escaping. Some terrified students jumped for their lives from fourthfloor windows, while others used desks to barricade doors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=448955&in_page_id=1811&ct=5

Why did Cho plan a rampage of violence? It was a fantasy fullfillment. He was mentally disturbed and would not seek treatment.

Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled. She referred him for counseling....but he would not go.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm?csp=34

“I kept saying, ‘Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,’ because he was so depressed,” Roy said. But “I was told [by counselors] that you can’t force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too.”

Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions.

“His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times.

“I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat,” Derry said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/

A copy of Cho's play entitled "Richard McBeef," can be found at thesmoking gun website. The bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with "a deadly blow." (10 pages)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

Cho also wrote a second play, entitled "Mr. Brownstone"; the play is named after a Guns N' Roses song and contains lyrics copied verbatim from the song. Both plays are available on the website below.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

Answer 2

Actually, there has been no official word on the supposed ex-girlfriend, who may not even be real. There's also no official word that the second person killed in the dorm was her boyfriend. All we know was that a male and a female were killed in that dorm.

Authorities are trying to figure out why he left two hours between shootings, and everything so far is speculation. But do not make the mistake of thinking the male and female found in the dorms were a couple or had anything to do with Cho.

Answer 3

I feel as though someone at Virginia Tech was on the brink of a discovery that would have changed mankind forever.. The GOD's above or powers that be - sent this Korean man on a mission to kill a certain someone for reasons we will never know at this present time. This persons potential discovery or persons offsprings discovery 50 years down the road would have had extremely detrimental consequences on humanity and the world we live. The actions of this Korean saved the world! He is a martyr!

Answer 4

The ballistics tests confirm that at least one of the guns was used in both sets of murders, so that's likely how it happened.

When the human mind snaps, it causes pain, worse than anything you can imagine. Sometimes the only thing that'll stop the pain is to invent a reason that it's there--usually the attitudes of other people--and then plan and exact revenge against them.

As much as we poke at it, we won't learn any lessons here. Everyone did their best at VT, but this was a random event, a sort of thing that's been happening since people began living in groups. VT couldn't prevent it, and we cannot prevent something similar from happening next Thursday somewhere else. It's something that's caused by us.

The guns weren't responsible; he'd have used bombs or poison gas if the firearms hadn't been available.

Answer 5

There are many already in prison who have done similar crimes ..for which flat answers as to "why" are simply a mystery . One thing most of them have in common is certain anti-psychotic drugs ..which are given mainly to young boys..which cause an already disturbed individual to become psychotic . We need to go after the drugs , as opposed to guns , as though they possess magic all by themselves . Courts fail to recognize the seriousness , despite expert testimony , that more often than not , evidence proves these certain drugs cause violence ..suicide / and / or murder . Yet , these "victims" of the pharmaceutical companies- which contribute large political contributions ..rot in a cell for the rest of their lives ..when , instead of help- they were handed a dangerous drug . That's the bigger crime .

Answer 6

Just like a rabid dog. Once they get a taste for blood, there is no stopping them. The only solution is to put them down. In this case the wimp took that pleasure away from someone respectable that should have had the shot...and killed himself!!!

Answer 7

when he killed his girlfriend and the other guy he should've left because they didn't absolutely know until 2 hours later. therefore it wouldn't have been this situation. Some people are just plain f'd up in the head and wants to take their blame out on everyone else just to make them feel happy.---i can't believe what he did tho, over 30 something people?? thats ridiculous.......

Answer 8

Has it been confirmed that it was his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend? I have not heard anything of that sort. And we don't yet know what made him go and kill more people later on. We may never know. I think that is something only he can understand and find rational.

Answer 9

Normal decent people really don't understand evil. That's why you don't understand.
And I don't think she was his girlfriend, he may have wished she was. And the man killed with her was the Resident Adviser; he came when he heard the noise; I don't know that he was her boyfriend.

Answer 10

By what the news media stated they said. He didn't like rich students. By that I got he might have already had them in his sight that these were engineering students and they would be rich someday. Just a thought.....