Posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:47 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Her smile shines out of the pictures posted on the Facebook website under the title of “Why Emily Hilscher was cooler than me”.
The girl who is believed to have obsessed the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui - and may have been his first victim - had a lot of friends. More than 200 had posted tributes on the website today.
Ella Miller, an old class mate, wrote: “I remember her untieing my shoes with a fork, when we played in the woods around her house in the club house, going to the beach with her and her family. Spending the night at her house and staying up late playing cards, her teaching me how to play the saxaphone, summer crab feasts, swimming in the river, jumping on trampolines in the rain, backstreet boys concert, her putting worms on her nose lol...and it wasn’t just her personality - she was gorgeous!!”
Photographs on the same website show a pretty young woman, preparing for a toga party, going on an 8th grade field trip, and arriving at her high school prom. Described as a straight “A” student, Ms Hilscher, 18, spent most of her free time horse riding and hoped to become a vet.
”I’m interested in pretty much everything,” she wrote on her MySpace page, in which she refers to herself as “The Pixie”.
She added: “My friends are what keeps me smiling. I’m into snowboard, riding and music. Give me something I can bang my head to or dance like crazy, and I’m all over it.”
Ms Hilscher had met a new boyfriend, about whom she gushed about on her page. “I live, love and get booted but eventually that will change...I now have a wonderful guy who is hopefully going to change all of that.” College friends said her new boyfriend had just dropped her off before the massacre.
Ms Hilscher, a first year student who was studying animal and poultry sciences and equine science, was the next-door neighbour of Ryan Clark, a residential adviser at the dormitory where the shooting started.
It is believed that a morning argument in the dormitory at the Virginia Tech campus led Cho to kill the teenager and Mr Clark who had attempted to come to her aid.
Her grandmother, Merle Hilscher, 71, described the tight bond Emily had with big sister Erica, 21, who attended a nearby university. “They were very close all their lives,” she said.
“Now one of them is ended, but we have to carry on.”
On her Facebook tribute page today, Cody Yager wrote: “Emily was one of my first friends here at [Virginia] Tech. How could such a beautiful soul be removed from our lives?”
Will Sonnett from Rappahannock County High School in rural Virginia, said: “Emily Hilscher was cooler than me because she could make friends with a glance and a smile. She never hesitated to make someone, anyone feel at home with kindness and an open mind. Thanks for being awesome to lame little 8th graders, and for making stupid computer classes unforgettable.”
I’ve seen far worse on myspace.com, unfortunately.
Her site seems fairly tame by comparison.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who had this thought cross their mind... this co-ed dorm thing when kids are so young, so hormonal, etc....
I appreciate that.
1. You assume she actually was his girlfriend. Thus far, I've seen no evidence to that effect.
2. It isn't cheating if you aren't actually in a relationship with the other person.
So he killed the two lovers out
You really don't know what you're talking about. The other initial victim was a Residence Hall Aide. They are upperclassmen students who live in dorms to help underclassmen transition into dormitory life. His relationship with the girl would have been strictly professional.
Yes - A DEAD Angel.
Good idea.
Problem is you’re making lots of assumption, and you know what they say about those that ass-u-me. The first biggest and probably most flawed assumption is that they actually had some sort of two way romantic and sexual relationship. Plenty of nutburger stalker types have “girlfriends” (or “boyfriends” girls can be psycho stalkers too) that only they know about, maybe some friends of theirs if they actually have friends but never he girlfriend in question. I knew both parties of one of those “relationships” when I was in school, they went on one date that didn’t even involve a wet kiss or anything, he didn’t have a good time and didn’t intend for there to be a second date, but the next thing he knew she had announced to the whole school that they were together, she even threatened to kill herself, not the most stable girl on the planet.
It’s victim blaming p.o.s. creeps like you that make me and others here sick. You are absoultely disgusting.
No one's saying that. But we are saying that scurrilous accusations require far more than sketchy inferences from a myspace page or tabloid rags.
Don't you just love it when Bible-quoting jerks act that way? Makes me embarrassed to be a Christian when Christians act that way.
We are sitting ducks for every homegrown psycho , but even worse for every foreign-born psycho whose entry into our land our nonexistent INS screening processes are somehow too timid to veto. We will never change these policies because the PC bureaucrats fear being shouted down as “racists” by special interests. I have heard there were red flags poppin’ up aplenty in some of the sick and twisted things he wrote for his VT English classes that should have been responded to a little more strongly than a mere suggestion of counseling. He should have been detained and subjected to immediate psychiatric evaluation, and SERIOUSLY considered a potential threat. THanks once again to all the A-holes who work overtime to keep laws like this from being enacted. We seem to be your willing sacrificial lambs.
I’m saying a crime of passion may have been the catalyst to pushing the murderer over the edge to killing everyone he thought he had problems with.
Anonymous has always been my favorite author.
Just remember that people like them don’t represent you or Christianity. Every religeon has it’s radical, judgemental, self righteous morons.
You’re such an amazing Christian.
I wouldn’t talk, if I were you. You’re not an especially amazing Christian yourself.
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