Update On Korean Immigrant Gunman

By James Fulford on April 17, 2007 at 1:16pm

The Washington Post calls him a "South Korean native" who who immigrated to the United States as a child.

Centreville Student Was Va. Tech Shooter - washingtonpost.com
Centreville Student Was Va. Tech Shooter

By Debbi Wilgoren and Howard Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 11:06 AM

A 23-year-old senior English major from Centreville was the gunman who killed 32 people and then himself on the Virginia Tech campus yesterday, university and law enforcement officials said.

Cho Seung Hui was a South Korean native who immigrated to this country as a child, officials said. His lifeless body was found in Norris Hall, a classroom building, among those of several other slain students, Virginia state police superintendent Col. Steve Flaherty said. He had apparently taken his own life.