A law enforcement official who read Cho's note described it Tuesday as a typed, eight-page rant against rich kids and religion. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
"You caused me to do this," the official quoted the note as saying.
Cho indicated in his letter that the end was near and that there was a deed to be done, the official said. He also expressed disappointment in his own religion, and made several references to Christianity, the official said.
This kid was in pain for years. My parents live quite near his hometown and heard an interview with high school classmates that indicated that he has been alienated for years.
He probably is depressed at least, perhaps even schizophrenic. I’m generalizing, but I guess that the family and his church had traditional Asian characteristics—hard work, stoicism and achievement above all. He couldn’t achieve, was in pain and the community would not recognize mental illness as anything more than a weakness.
Then he hears the church preach about the love of God. In his paranoid, delusional mind, the church’s inaction is the ultimate denial of his pain.
It comes out in his rantings.