It may be true, but keep in mind that the Chicoms would certainly use that as an excuse to execute anyone they wanted.
What the heck is a Chinese student doing with that kind of hardware? Is there some sort of Chinese handbook that says: “as soon as you settle in the American university, seek out a nefarious dealer of illicit firearms, ammunition, and ammo vests/body armor”. I would think a foreign student isn’t here long enough to form that much of a gripe (barring some outside influence).
I swear, everything that happens in the world could, at least by people on Free Republic, be construed as an act of terrorism by a Muslim extremist. It seems like some people automatically assume that the perpetrator is Muslim and then look for ways to tie that together, such as speculating that the hat was Muslim-related and that, if he was Chinese, then he was a Chinese Muslim. When I was in high school we had a of bomb threats, death threats, and so on. In a pre 9-11 world this same sort of thing happens, but we didn’t look for ways to tie it to Islam.
That said, based on the police press conference I watched earlier, they appear to be hinting at two shooters, seeing as the description of the first shooter doesn’t match the second. They have a “person of interest” that they’ve spoken to, but nothing more. I don’t know what’s going on there. Perhaps they have no evidence against this person, but that wouldn’t explain how or why they have a description. Odds of the two incidents happening the same day would be essentially nil (unless the second shooter heard about the first shooting, and decided to make today his day).