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The “person of interest” was apparently the boyfriend of one of the victims from the first shooting in West Ambler Johnston. He was a student at Radford University (a few miles up the road from VT) and was stopped and being detained on the side of the highway when Cho opened up in Norris Hall.

It’s speculation, but I expect that over the next couple of days, we’re going to find out that Cho had been stalking this girl, or else had tried to date her and gotten shot down in flames. Now why he went to Norris and opened fire on mechanical engineering classes (and a German class, where many of the casualties were), I have no idea. Sounds like this guy wasn’t wrapped real tight.

The amazing thing is, he lived ON-CAMPUS (Harper Hall, I think). From my three years in a dorm, I find it remarkable that this guy could put this together (two handguns and a crapton of ammo) and not have somebody have an inkling that Something Bad was going to happen. It’s very hard to keep secrets with that many 18- to 23-year-olds crammed together that tightly.

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You said: The amazing thing is, he lived ON-CAMPUS (Harper Hall, I think). From my three years in a dorm, I find it remarkable that this guy could put this together (two handguns and a crapton of ammo) and not have somebody have an inkling that Something Bad was going to happen. It’s very hard to keep secrets with that many 18- to 23-year-olds crammed together that tightly.
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Thanks for that information. At the risk of jumping to conclusions (and I am not doing that, only taking a look at additional facts as they come along), IF Virginia Tech HAD done a lock down, they would have been locking down the shooter along with the students. We don’t know WHEN this shooter made it to Norris Hall— he could already have been there, making final plans, stalking, etc. when the lockdown order would have been given. This would likely have changed nothing in how this matter occurred. There is NO likelihood that the campus police could have secured all of the buildings on campus, and Norris Hall is, I understand, on the other end of campus, and would have been one of the last secured, it would appear.

I am not taking sides in this matter, simply urging people to wait for all of the information before making decisions to fire (and in one post I read, to EXECUTE) the president of VT.

The “person of interest” was apparently the boyfriend of one of the victims from the first shooting in West Ambler Johnston. He was a student at Radford University (a few miles up the road from VT) and was stopped and being detained on the side of the highway when Cho opened up in Norris Hall.
It’s speculation, but I expect that over the next couple of days, we’re going to find out that Cho had been stalking this girl, or else had tried to date her and gotten shot down in flames. Now why he went to Norris and opened fire on mechanical engineering classes (and a German class, where many of the casualties were), I have no idea. Sounds like this guy wasn’t wrapped real tight

This would explain a lot of the rumors (that the shooter was an ex-boyfriend, that there was a "second shooter", etc..) and also explain no lockdown, the cops thought they had the shooter in custody and didn't want to start a panic.

Cho may have suspected another student, with classes in Norris, of being her actual boyfriend.

-Eric