the story..
Tech killer was 'obsessed' with girl who had new boyfriend
Her Myspace account...
Myspace
GuardianDr Bill Knocke, head of the civil engineering faculty whose staff and students were among the dead, said he understood that Cho had gone on Monday morning to the dormitory of a female student, Emily Hilscher, 19, who was not his girlfriend but with whom he may have been infatuated. He confronted her and shot her. He also murdered her mentor and fellow student, Ryan Clark, 22, who tried to intervene.
more...
Ny timesAfter two people, Emily Jane Hilscher, a freshman, and Ryan Clark, the resident adviser whose room was nearby in the dormitory, were shot dead, the campus police began searching for Karl D. Thornhill, who was described in Internet memorials as Ms. Hilscher’s boyfriend.
According to a search warrant filed by the police, Ms. Hilscher’s roommate had told the police that Mr. Thornhill, a student at nearby Radford University, had guns at his town house. The roommate told the police that she had recently been at a shooting range with Mr. Thornhill, the affidavit said, leading the police to believe he may have been the gunman.
But as they were questioning Mr. Thornhill, reports came in of widespread shooting at Norris Hall, making it clear that they had not contained the threat on campus. Mr. Thornhill was not arrested, although he continues to be an important witness in the case, the police said.
At the time of the dormitory shootings, Col. W. Steven Flaherty, the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said, “There was certainly no evidence or no reason to think that there was anyone else at that particular point in time.”
Guardian"The killer behind America's deadliest mass shooting had come to the attention of police as early as 2005, the Guardian learned yesterday. Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
Police investigating the Virginia Technical College massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory. The police suspect he was also behind persistent recent bomb threats.
Professor Lucinda Roy, a former head of the English department, said Cho had caused alarm in 2005 for taking illicit mobile phone photographs of women from under the desks and writing an essay brimming with rage.
At the time, she emailed Cho expressing her concerns and also contacted campus police, the legal department and counselling services. Cho responded with a long, angry and incoherent email.
Multi, multi-million dollar lawsuits coming...
Times OnlineAccording to the Chicago Tribune, citing college officials, Cho even had time to post a deadly warning on a school online forum. He is reported to have written: "I’m going to kill people at vtech today."
...and...
"Last year Cho shared a campus house with three other students, who were also baffled by his behaviour. He hardly said a word all year, they revealed, but began stalking their female friends and pestering them with messages.
Confronted by his housemates, Cho sent an instant message to them, saying: “I want to kill myself.” They called the authorities and Cho was taken away for a couple of days for counselling. Cho opened up only once, revealing to his housemates during a late-night conversation that he had an imaginary girlfriend, a supermodel. The imaginary couple called each other “Spanky” and “Jelly”.
Talk about screwing up the facts, the M$M has been too busy playing this sad incident up as 'the worst school massacre in U.S. history', but according to Wikipedia, the actual worse school massacre occured in 1927 when Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives at a school in Bath, Michigan, killing 45 people and injuring 61. (the catholics got the blame that time)
OMG
Biloxi Sun-Herald's editor's response to the complaints he received about putting that photo on his front page:
The offending appendage is hanging down...The photograph of an unidentified victim of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage who is being carried out of Norris Hall Monday by police officers, has raised questions from readers who saw the photo on the front page of Tuesday's Sun Herald. Several have inquired about the condition of the young man. Others have called voicing the concern that a private part of the man's anatomy is shown in the photograph.
Sun Herald editors selected the photograph to be the dominant image on our front page because it showed the gripping drama that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus Monday in its most human terms. We believe the photo represents the best of photojournalism, a moment in time recorded forever of people responding to the event where the evil actions of one man claimed the greatest death toll of any shooting spree in U.S. history. There were many good photographs taken Monday, but in our judgment this was the best. The photo, taken by Alan Kim, a staff photographer from the Roanoke Times and distributed by The Associated Press, has been widely shown by news organizations around the globe, on television and in newspapers and websites.
Our "cutline," the information describing the photograph, was limited, because the cir stances would not allow the photographer to gather information relating to the victim's identification or his condition, given the dynamic moment in which the picture was taken.
In response to reader concerns I called Kathleen Carroll, a Mississippi native who is the Associated Press Executive Editor, to see if she could answer their questions. As of about 1 p.m. EDT Carroll did not know the name of the man in the photo, or his condition.
The AP is seeking to determine this information, and we will post those facts as soon as they are available. As to the matter of the possibility that the man's genitalia has been shown in the photo, Carroll said she did not believe that was the case.
"We looked really closely and don't think it is that. We looked at the photo with the most sophisticated equipment and we don't think it is genitalia. We believe it could be a tourniquet or a piece of clothing." She told me that had the AP thought it was genitalia it would have flagged the photo in a way that would have alerted editors so they could have factored this into their decision to publish the image or not. Carroll characterized the photo as "an enormously important image as it shows the dreadful consequences of the gunman."
We agree on the importance of the photo, and we agree the part of the photo that some have taken to be genitalia is not.
- Stan Tiner
- Executive Editor
First, wtf are you laughing about?
Second, that isnt his .
Youre an idiot sometimes.
"Sometimes"?
Dan, you're whack. Fortunately for us, this is a virtual world but, I worry for those, from this forum, you've met personally...
I have to say that it is disappointing to see you laughing over this.OMG
Biloxi Sun-Herald's editor's response to the complaints he received about putting that photo on his front page:
The offending appendage is hanging down...
That is tasteless.
Actually, they've been terming it "the worst mass shooting," but don't let little things like that get in the way of your argument.
Kehoe blew his victims up.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpa...Archive=041707OMG
Biloxi Sun-Herald's editor's response to the complaints he received about putting that photo on his front page:
The offending appendage is hanging down...
Look at how many newspapers ran that same photo.
Also, even if were the guy's , isn't the picture more telling of the scene to have the impact?
You know, Dan, I could do this all day... but I think I've proven my point.
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Los Angeles Daily News
San Luis Obispo Tribune (close friend of mine is a news reporter here)
Rocky Mountain News
Hartfor Courant
Washington Times
All this linking is getting tiring, Dan...do you still have issues with a guy's peener (oh, and BTW, this guy was injured in the worst mass shooting in United States history) being on your front pages enough to get a few laughs at the "M$M's" expense?
I'm sure dan thinks this is come kind of conspiracy.
Who cares what is hanging out. If I remember correctly this
guy saved his own life by putting a tourniquet on his leg to stop
the bleeding.
But you can count on dan to keep us up to date on whatever.
The victim in that photo managed to keep himself from bleeding to death by fashioning a tourniquet around his leg.
The only I see is the one who started this thread.
If you are interested in more than looking for in every news photo you view...
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5692940
Thanks, HC.
I'm always amazed at Dan's propensity to take massive tragedy and exploit it for his own purposes -- political or personal.
What I'm amazed by is that Dan hasn't posted in this thread since being exposed as a ing bag.
That's one thing that doesn't amaze me anymore.
What amazes me is that you are the same people who aren't concerned over the death of 100+ thousand civilian Iraqs and over 3100 of our own military personnel. Don't blame the messenger.
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