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...Cho's teachers, meanwhile, had been trying to take on his suspected mental disorder on their own. Poetry teacher Nikki Giovanni confronted the student she called "a bully." "There was something mean about this boy," she said of the young man who was in her class two years ago. "Troubled kids get drunk and jump off buildings. It was the meanness that bothered...
Universities are hierarchical places, tolerant of eccentricity, protective of privacy but alert to risk. Giovanni wrote a letter to department head Roy, in part because she wanted to create a record that could lead to removing Cho from her class. Giovanni said she was prepared to quit over the issue. Roy, for her part, saw the anger as well. "He seemed so sad inside," she said, and she shared her concerns with campus police and counselors. They told her that unless the threats were explicit, there was little they could do. So Roy took him on as a private student...
...many weeks. They had offered a $5,000 reward to anyone who knew anything and were supposed to meet that morning to discuss security measures. It would be too late before anyone came across a posting on a school online forum, which police now believe was left by Cho: "I'm going to kill people at Vtech today...
...observing Cho at that point. He appears to have gone back to his room in Harper Hall, a smaller dorm just across from West AJ, reloaded his weapon and tucked two knives into his backpack. He had clearly been preparing his NBC exhibit for days, with its 27 QuickTime videos, self-portraits of Cho as normal kid, Cho as jihadi."I didn't have to do this," he said into the camera. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," Cho says on one of the videos. "You forced me into a corner and gave...
Introductory German was meeting in Room 207, a couple dozen students in their first class of the day, when Cho peered in, as though he was looking for someone. One student thought he looked like a Boy Scout. He was wearing the school color--a maroon cap--and a vest with pockets for his ammunition. When he went back into the classroom, he was quiet and purposeful. First he shot instructor Jamie Bishop, 35, in the head. Then he went methodically around the room. Derek O'Dell was hit in the arm; when Cho finally left for the next room...