Wow. 2005 declared Mentally ILL and this in the past hour. Good grief.
nbc lied, people died.
MSNBC
Updated: 6 minutes ago
Cho Seung-Hui sent NBC News a long and rambling communication and video about his grievances, the network said Wednesday. Network officials turned the material over to the FBI and said they would not immediately disclose its contents pending the agency’s review.
The communication is the last known red flag raised by Cho, 23, a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who killed 32 people in two separate attacks Monday before taking his own life.
But as early as 2005, police and school administrators were wrestling with what to do with the young man, who was accused of stalking two female students and was sent to a mental health facility after police obtained a temporary detention order.
The two women complained to campus police that Cho was contacting them with “annoying” telephone calls and e-mail messages in November and December 2005, campus Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.
Cho was referred to the university’s disciplinary system, but Flinchum said the woman declined to press charges, and the case apparently never reached a hearing.
Detention order issued
However, after the second incident, the department received a call from an acquaintance of Cho’s, who was concerned that he might be suicidal, Flinchum said. Police obtained a temporary detention order from a local magistrate, and in December of that year, Cho was voluntarily but briefly admitted to Carilion St. Albans Behavioral Health Center in Radford, NBC News’ Jim Popkin reported.
To issue a detention order under Virginia law, a magistrate must find both that the subject is “mentally ill and in need of hospitalization or treatment” and that the subject is “an imminent danger to himself or others, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for himself.”
According to a doctor’s report accompanying the order, which was first reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Cho was “depressed,” but “his insight and judgment are normal.” The doctor, a clinical psychologist who was not identified, noted that Cho “denies suicidal ideations.”
Under the law, the magistrate could have issued a stronger detention order mandating inpatient treatment, but there was no indication Wednesday that such an order was ever entered. A spokesman for Carilion St. Albans told NBC News that he could not discuss Cho’s case because of patient confidentiality and privacy laws, but he said the hospital was cooperating with the investigation.
Otherwise, Flinchum said, there were no further police incidents involving Cho until the deadly shootings Monday, first in a young woman’s dormitory room and then at a classroom building across campus. Neither of the alleged stalking victims was among the victims Monday.
In addition to the 33 people confirmed dead, including the gunman, nine people remained in hospitals in stable condition, hospital authorities said.
Health records sought
Campus police applied Wednesday for search warrants for all of Cho’s medical records from Schiffert Health Center on campus and New River Community Services in Blacksburg.
”It is reasonable to believe that the medical records may provide evidence of motive, intent and designs,” investigators wrote in the documents, according to The Associated Press.
Police searched Cho’s dorm room Tuesday and recovered, among other items, a chain and a combination lock, according to documents filed Wednesday. The front doors of Norris Hall, the classroom building, had been chained shut from the inside during the shooting rampage.
Other items that were seized included a folding knife; two computers, a hard disk and other computer disks; documents, books, notebooks and other writings; a digital camera; compact disks; and two Dremel tools, which are rotating tools used for cutting, sanding and other applications.
In an affidavit seeking the search warrant, police found a “bomb threat” note — directed at engineering school buildings — near the victims in the classroom building. In the past three weeks, Virginia Tech had received two other bomb threats; investigators said they had not connected those to Cho.
Family sought better life in U.S.
Cho arrived in the United States as an 8-year-old boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in an off-white, two-story townhouse in Centreville, Va., a suburb of Washington, where his parents worked at a dry cleaners. He graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly in 2003.
Cho’s family moved to the United States in search of a better life, said the family’s landlady in South Korea. The family was poor and lived in a cheap basement apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, the woman told South Korean television Wednesday.
Cho had an older sister, Sun-Kyung, who graduated from Princeton University with an economics degree in 2004, Princeton officials confirmed.
Ping
What did NBC know and when did they know it! I demand an Investigation.
What did NBC know and when did they know it! I demand an Investigation.
Henree Waxjob
You can’t blame NBC...rambling, incoherent letters is typical for their viewers.
He thought NBC would treat him nicely!!
Per FoxNews, Cho mailed the packet to NBC between the time of the first shootings and the later massacre.
I love how they use the word “rambling”.
This is the kid who received straight A’s from profs who were terrified of him.
But this is Bush’s fault.
MSNBC
Package is in custody of NYPD and FBI, is being sent back to VA.
Mailed package/box (2 day); received at NBC today; immediately turned over to NYPD/FBI.
Specific Addressee is not know, but was labeled to NBC News.
MSNBC
NBC Nightly News may show contents and video tonight, per Chris Matthews.
MSNBC reporter follow up:
Package was simply addressed to NBC, not NBC News.
Opened in mailroom. Shooter’s name may have been on back of package. Mailroom immediately notified authorities.
Now everyone has to be famous, make a big statement, send their garbage to NBC or some other whore MSM network, take out a whole pile of innocent people before they waste themselves. And the whores in the media perpetuate the whole sick cycle by making these losers celebrities.
Enough already, we know he wrote some crappy sicko play, he was the “quiet loner”, wrote some long pathetic whining suicide note, we’ve seen enough of his stupid pictures, talked to enough people who crossed paths with him. While we are posting these comments, Hollywood is already at work on the film, the book, the record whatever the hell they can sell from this tragedy.
Let’s pass a law limiting the exposure these freaks get and maybe they will go back to hanging themselves in the basement, blowing their brains out or whatever.
Had it been video of police officers subduing a perp, we would have seen the video long before now.
MSNBC
Per Jack Thompson, atty for some in the Paducah, KY school shooting:
Video game, Counterstrike, may have been involved. Cho played it on the computer. Per Cho’s high school acquaintances.
[Perp in the German school shooting was also involved in the same computer game.]
Thompson is saying this (the shooting) was a ‘body count’ game. He also says that, for Cho to have pulled this off as he did, he had to have trained for it (via computer).
<< Network officials turned the material over to the FBI and said they would not immediately disclose its contents beyond characterizing the material as “disturbing.” >>
You can be sure of few things in this life, but one of them is, that if these materials indicated that he did this crime
- in order to object to the practice of abortion in this country
- under some warped idea of Christianity,
- or any other so-called “right wing” motive,
we would already know that by now.
If the guy was just whacked out, you’d see the letters.
He’s probably whacked, and a Muslim convert.
They are afraid of this helping the current administration and the war effort.
I’m not saying this is what it is, but I can’t imagine why the original letter and this one haven’t been published.
One other angle is they are looking for an accomplice and don’t want to tip their hand.
I am embarrassed that so many Freepers don’t know how mail gets around.