Sources: Virginia Tech gunman left note

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 17, 2007 | Aamer Madhani

[neverdem]

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say.

The note included a rambling list of grievances, according to sources. They said Cho also died with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on one of his arms.

Cho had shown recent signs of violent, aberrant behavior, according to an investigative source, including setting a fire in a dorm room and allegedly stalking some women.

A note believed to have been written by Cho was found in his dorm room that railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus.

Cho was an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school's counseling service, the Associated Press reported.

Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university's English department, said she did not personally know the gunman. But she said she spoke with Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled."

"There was some concern about him," Rude said. "Sometimes, in creative writing, people reveal things and you never know if it's creative or if they're describing things, if they're imagining things or just how real it might be.

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Investigators believe Cho at some point had been taking medication for depression.

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A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol.

Ballistics tests by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms showed that one gun was used in Monday's two separate campus attacks that were two hours apart.

[neverdem]

Another report mentioned that there had been attempts to remove the serial numbers from the handguns. Carrying reciepts makes no sense.

"Ismail Ax," and "Investigators believe Cho at some point had been taking medication for depression."

The Pharmacotherapy of DEPRESSION

"Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetic factors that lead to individual differences in the response to drug therapy.(49) Often, phenotypes that lead to pharmacogenetic differences are found clustered within particular ethnic groups. Interindividual variability in cytochrome P450 2D6 activity is quite large.(46,47) The impact of polymorphism on P450 enzymes involved in antidepressant metabolism depends on the importance of the metabolic pathway. Generally, adverse effects are more likely in slow metabolizers because of drug accumulation and serum concentrations may be subtherapeutic in extremely rapid metabolizers. One group of investigators suggest that 30% of Chinese patients are slow metabolizers and thus are at risk for toxicity from usual doses of TCAs."

Just speculation, but is this a convert to Islam with serotonin syndrome?

ANTIDEPRESSANT CASUALTIES

[VRWCmember]

It sure would be nice if one of these “sources” would release the content of this “rambling list of grievances” from the disturbing “invective-filled” note.

[BenLurkin]

"a rambling list of grievances... that railed against 'rich kids,' "

Also spent a lot of time on the computer. I wonder what sites he visited and posted on.

[RightWhale]

Where is the text? Let’s have the MSM explain why the text isn’t available.

[Screamname]

If you can believe it, after all this, that fat pig Oafrah right now on her show is having a “town meeting” over this Imus deal. I can`t believe it, but not suprising considering whose show it is.

[the anti-mahdi]

I believe this was a Jihad attack. The first victim is almost certainly Jewish. It occurred on Holocaust Remembrance Day. After the RA was shot (second victim), the next victim seems to have been an Israeli Professor.