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...popped up on the campus police radar screen on Nov. 27, 2005, when a female student reported that Cho had made annoying contact with her through the phone and in person. While she declined to press charges, another student soon complained of his instant messages. After police investigated, an acquaintance alerted them that Cho might be suicidal. When police returned and questioned him further, they asked that he agree to see a counselor...
...same hall when the class heard the shots. He braced his body in front of the door, yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said, and as he climbed out the window, he turned and looked at his teacher, who had stayed behind. Librescu was shot to death through...
...Since Ogryzkov does not use earplugs, Hester said he was “a real bell ringer.” Responding with the help of a translator, Ogryzkov replied, “I might not only become a real bell ringer, but also a real deaf person.” Besides teaching the mechanics of ringing the bells, Ogryzkov spoke about the liturgical origins of one of the bells’ odd nicknames. According to Ogryzkov, the bell known as “Famine, Pestilence, and Despair,” was likely rung during the hard fasts of Lent. Ogryzkov...
...down? Is empathy optional, at least in some people, and if so, how does that emotional decoupling take place? More important, if we can figure out that part of the question, can we figure out how to prevent such things from happening? "We always ask ourselves, 'Is this a person who has no conscience at all?'" says Stanton Samenow, a forensic psychologist and author of the 2004 book Inside the Criminal Mind. "They seem to have an unfathomable ability to shut off knowledge of the consequences, of the difference between right and wrong. It's critical...
...survive to talk about it, but plenty of people present at shootings like those at Virginia Tech or Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999 make it out alive. And what they describe about the killer's mien as the shooting is taking place sounds nothing like a person who's thrilled by - or even much enjoying - what he's doing. There is, survivors report, a cold joylessness to the proceedings, something that in its own way is a lot harder to parse than the perverse pleasure of a serial killer. What makes mass murderers do it? Trying...