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...December 2005, campus police and mental health professionals in Blacksburg, Va., arranged to have Cho committed to a state psychiatric facility. Cho's brief hospitalization for suspected mental illness was disclosed this morning by Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum, who said Cho was taken to St. Albans psychiatric hospital in Radford, Va., on Dec. 13 of that year after two women students (neither of whom was among Cho's shooting victims) called campus police complaining that Cho had made troubling contacts with them. A third person - identified last night on CNN as a suite mate...
...Tuesday morning the Virginia Tech police chief, Wendell Flinchum, held out the possibility that a second shooter might have been involved. He said authorities could not definitively say that Cho killed a man and a woman in a dorm earlier Monday morning in addition to the 30 slaughtered in a classroom building called Norris Hall. But Cho's fingerprints were found on a gun used in both buildings...
Last week, on the first anniversary of his first winning ride at a U. S. race track, little Jack Flinchum could look back on an imposing record: in 1,167 races-at Hot Springs, Keeneland, Louisville, Cleveland and other lesser tracks before going to Miami-he had booted home 190 winners, 162 to place, 132 to show. With 63 winners since the first of the year, he was last week leading the race for No. 1 jockey...
...Miami's Hialeah Park and Tropical Park, winter visitors, converging from all over the country, took to the cute little Puss-in-boots as movie fans took to Shirley Temple a few years ago. Oldtimers as well as race-going recruits ignored form charts, played Flinchum regardless of his mount. Booting home winner after winner, against top-notchers like Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade. he was the sensation of the Florida racing season...
What little Jack Flinchum saw ahead of him was even more exciting: two days before he was presented with five pounds of lead weights (tied with a festive blue ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby...