Seung Hui Cho, a permanent resident of the United States, a Korean national and a Virginia Tech student has been identified as the gunman in the shootings that left 33 people dead on the Virginia Tech campus Monday, ABC News has learned.Reaction from all over this morning and throughout the overnight hours.
The student left a "disturbing note" before killing two people in a dorm room, returning to his own room to re-arm and entering a classroom building on the other side of campus to continue his rampage, sources said.
Cho's identitiy has been confirmed with a positive fingerprint match on the guns used in the rampage and with immigration materials. It is believed that he was the shooter in both incidents yesterday. Sources say Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol, sources said. Witnesses had also told authorities that the shooter was carrying a backpack. Sections of chain similar to those used to lock the main doors at Norris Hall, the site of the second shooting that left 31 dead, were found inside a Virginia Tech dormitory, sources confirmed to ABC News.
At the Washington Times, Stacy McCain has an update from his original post yesterday with plenty of blog reactions.
Meanwhile, sorting out the facts of the frenzied events will take time, but accounts of heroism amidst the tragedy are surfacing.
One of the victims has been identified as a Professor from Israel.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter, who had attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.Read the rest.
American Spectator has A Disarmed Campus.
Read the New York Post editorial, which harshly criticizes the administration at Virginia Tech.
AJ Strata has The Tech Massacre and Iraq.
Other reaction at Riehl World View, Michelle Malkin, Stuck on Stupid, Tel-Chai Nation, Wizbang!, Memeorandum, A Blog For All.
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