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A Profile Of The Virginia Tech Killer

Dr. Bill Knaus

Professor, American International College. Volunteer advocate, 25 years. Founder of Rational Emotive Education, and author of 12 books including: Take Charge Now: How to stop the blame habit and The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression.

Since Cho Seung-Hui massacred 32 people at the University of Virginia, the greater US college community has responded by efforts to support its fallen fellow students, and the friends and the families of the students. Many parents of college students from Maine to Hawaii have especially felt unsettled by this event. Those who mourn continue to mourn because the lives of those who were lost in this massacre were meaningful. For them, there is no future.

This paper is intended to explore psychological factors that contributed to Cho’s murderous rampage and to explore what can be done for the future to prevent more of the same. Let’s start with putting the April 16, 2007, shootings that took place on the Virginia Tech campus into context. The mass murderer, Cho Seung-Hui, was a highly disturbed, destructive, individual who acted in an evil way by deliberately ending the lives of 32 others. Cho chose suicide following his rampage. His endgame was destruction. When he destroyed all that he was able, he took his own life.

The vast majority of people who suffer from mental disturbances are substantially more of a problem to themselves and to those closest to them who may feel stressed by their disability. It is statistically rare for any mentally distressed individual to go on a killing spree. This is important to keep in mind.

Cho’s mass destructive conduct is very rare. How is this to be explained?

Cho’s psychological picture is highly complex with many coexisting factors that are part of the picture, including an ability to remain focused and organized while still acting deranged. The following represents one perspective on this com

The first school shooter of the 1990s was an Asian boy who played the violin. I laughed when I heard an account of the rampage from my friend Ethan Gooding, who had survived it. Ethan forgave me my reaction. I think he knew by then that most people, facing up to a real atrocity, as opposed to the hundreds they’d seen on TV, didn’t know how to act.

Ethan had left New Providence High School in central New Jersey for the progressive utopia of Simon’s Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Simon’s Rock was a school for high school juniors and seniors ready for college-level work, a refuge for brilliant misfits, wounded prodigies, and budding homosexuals. Ethan was a pretty bright kid, brighter than me, but mostly he was a budding homosexual. One day in gym class at New Providence, Ethan made a two-handed set shot from half-court using a kickball while dressed in buttercup-yellow short-shorts and earned the nickname “Maurice.” This was not a reference to E. M. Forster’s frank novel of gay love, but to Maurice Cheeks, the great Philadelphia 76ers point guard. The unintended resonance was savored by those few of us who could discern it. Ethan had a striking pre-Raphaelite pallor set off against flaming red cheeks and lips with the puckered epicene aspect that speaking the French language too young will impart to a decent American mouth. None of this in itself meant, necessarily, that he was going to become gay, but then—well, he was.

Gay-bashing was less of a hate crime back then and more of a patriotic duty, particularly in a race-segregated, heavily Catholic suburb like New Providence. At Youth & Government, the YMCA-sponsored mock legislature attended by suck-ups with Napoleon complexes, the “governor” from our school introduced a bill to “build an island of garbage off of the Jersey Shore” where we could “put all the homosexuals.” We all chortled along, none more loudly than the closet cases in our midst. It was the kind of place you wanted t

REAL CRIMINAL

Seung-Hui Cho was a South Korean mass murderer and school shooter who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting, killing 32 people and leaving at least 17 others wounded before killing himself.

Background[]

Cho was born in Asan, a city in the South Korean province of South Chungcheong, and lived in a basement apartment with his family. His father ran his own bookstore but didn't make much money from it. In September 1992, when Cho was 8 years old, the family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Centreville, Virginia, a town in Northern Virginia, which had a large Korean community. There, the family became avid Christians.

A quiet boy, he never socialized much with his family, causing relatives to believe he was selectively mute or had some sort of mental illness. In high school, Cho was teased and sometimes bullied for his usually-silent nature. When he did speak, he was mocked because of it, with one student saying "Go back to China", though he was from South Korea. On April 20, 1999, while Cho was in the 9th grade, two bullied students attending Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, committed a deadly massacre at the school, killing 12 students and one teacher before committing suicide, an incident that made national news. Cho became "transfixed" by the news, and when he voiced a need to "rep

South Korean mass shooter (1984–2007)

This article is about the murderer. For the South Korean singer and actress, see Cho Seung-hee.

In this Korean name, the family name is Cho.

Cho Seung-hui (Korean: 조승희; January 18, 1984 – April 16, 2007), anglicized as Seung-Hui Cho, was a South Korean mass murderer who was responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. This killing is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, and was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. A senior-levelundergraduate student of creative writing at the university, Cho died by suicide after police breached the doors of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall which Cho had locked with heavy chains, where most of the shooting had taken place.

Born in South Korea, Cho was eight years old when he immigrated to the United States with his family. He became an U.S. permanent resident a