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...affidavit state police filed to search Cho's dorm room (2121 Harper Hall) suggests Cho had been planning mayhem for some time. It says that a note containing a bomb threat was found near his body; the note is similar to two other bomb threats issued against engineering buildings at the school last week. Cho may have probed the campus emergency response with the previous notes...
...affidavit said he is believed to have possessed "multiple guns including but not limited to" the Walther and the Glock. Investigators are still looking for Cho's motives, but Cho left a discursive note in his dorm room that offered some explanations. The only full quote released so far is this cryptic line: "You caused me to do this. "But the note also assails "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus...
...Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university's English department, told the AP that "there was some concern about him." She said his writing was disturbing enough that Cho had been referred to the university counseling service, but she said she didn't know what the outcome was. Lucinda Roy, who taught Cho in 2005, told CNN she was so concerned that she pulled him out of class for one-on-one tutoring and "repeatedly" contacted the campus police and other university authorities about him. But because there were no explicit threats in his writing, nothing could be done...
...State Police said the victims in Norris Hall were found in four classrooms and a stairwell. Cho's corpse was found in one of those classrooms...
...After the service, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine announced that he is appointing an independent panel to review the authorities' handling of the massacre, to look at how police and university officials responded to the shootings and whether they had missed earlier warning signs that Cho was troubled. Meanwhile, the shootings had a ripple effect on campuses across the U.S. Universities and schools in at least 10 states were forced to lock down or evacuate on Tuesday, some after discoveries of notes that alluded to the shootings and threatened worse violence and others after reports of suspicious activity. On Tuesday evening...