VT Massacre
So yesterday was my birthday. I slept half of the day and woke up some where around noon. I'm done with the movie now, so it's time to catch up on sleep. When I woke up, I read my e-mail only to find the news of this Virginia Tech shooting sent from my mom. My mom told me later that when she first sent the article that it said 5 were dead, but it was clearly 22 when I read it a few hours later and the story had been updated. I know a couple people who attend VT and was worried about several of them, but fortunately that facebook proved they were all safe and sound. Radford, which is another large state university about 15 minutes from VT, is where I have some former members of my old church living and working. One is a police officer there and he said that he was called over, but everything was died down by the time that he arrived. My parents current church supports the campus minister down there in Blacksburg and I talked with the youth minister and so far everyone down there was all right. As stated a little on the news, Virginia Tech is like the notre dame for this area. If you grow up here or went there, you are forever loyal to this school and when something like this happens, it is a blow to pretty much the whole region. Well, most of you have seen the news and read stuff online by now, so I am not going to give a recap, instead, I want to outline the most recent story - Cho Seung-Hui.
It came out a few hours ago now that Cho Seung-Hui is the name and person suspected to be responsible for these shootings. Cho Seung-Hui is from centreville, virginia which is just on the other side of fairfax county from me (history wise, it's not too far from manasas). He attended a public high school in chantilly, virginia and I have known several people who came from that same area and it's a little unsettling. He graduated from high school the same year that I did, 2003 and it appear that he was also the same year in undergrad at VT. The northern virginia area is highly populated with asians and so it is apparent that this guy was highly depressed and unable to overcome his mind. The profile that I've read so far about Cho Seung-Hui reminds me of a Criminal Minds Episode that I saw a few weeks ago on CBS. The character was this kid who, weird-so prepare, would fantasize(sp?) about having sex with prostitutes, but instead of doing anything with them, he would pull out a knife and kill them. In the episode, the kid knew that he was crazy and something was going on and was trying his best to prevent himself from hurting others by going and taking himself to police, but continued to be skitzo. Evidence has so far shown that this man at virginia tech was having issues and had apparently been referred to couseling. Because this guy was what police would classify as a minority, although he evidently did not grow up in a minoritized area, it does keep those old-fashioned people on their racist and stereotypical kicks and really, not every single asian in the world knows kung fu or can kill with their bare hands. Most asians or asian-decent that I've interacted with my whole life have been some of the nicest people, which could very well outline why this guy was quiet. Nice guys out in the world today, especially at a state school, have a much harder time interacting, I would suspect, and relating to the rest of this world. I am curious to see the final profile of this kid in the coming days and weeks.
One thing that hits not only the state of virginia, but this northern area of virginia is that back in 2002, the sniper shootings occured and it is clear by the evidence that this Cho Seung-Hui guy was around and living in the area. When another shooting would happen, schools around the DC region would go on lock down and students were stuck inside while local, state, and federal law enforcement were out looking for muhammad(sp?). I assume that police may check into any relation to this as well or this kid praising this back a few years ago. So many unaswered questions and will remain so for the current time.
I feel bad for many of the local police and the president of VT down there. I really hope that no one has to lose their job over this, but in today's society, everyone wants to blame someone and so someone else, who was not in any way at fault, will suffer because of this. Why are dorms not locked during the day? People go exercising during the day and dont want to have to take their emergency purse with them while doing so. It's not hard to piggy back ontop of someone to get inside of a dorm. Multiple reasons as to why the first shooting was not enough to close down the entire region of probably over 30,000+ people. That's rediculous. People would complain about that as well. It's a lose-lose situation.
I read a little of the list of those who died. It looks like several professors were killed. VT-one of the top engineering schools in the country has lost some of those professionals. This is very sad. I'm sure that the rest of the list will be posted in the coming days, after those family members are notified, but who knows.
This is apparently a very deadly area to live in....Washington DC area. You've got people in Iraq being killed because of this federal government. You have snipers a few years back and now you can this guy. Fortunately that the local dc district has cut down on crime in the past 10 years, but it still happens occasionally, but not really mass executions like the national news worthy ones. What are we going to do? Why are there so many psychos living here? How can we find these people and make sure that they know people do love them? Sure, we can try to change the world, go off to other places, but this northeastern region just seems to be getting more and more worse? What can we do? I don't know. I've grown up here. I know how people area. I've seen a lot. It makes you grow up quick. Is this just something that we decide to live with or what? I don't know. I'm done typing though.
Here are some AP photos that I pulled over from yahoo:
Cho Seung-Hui 
Cho Seung-Hui 
Cho Seung-Hui
- the dudes townhouse across the other side of fairfax from me.
memorial on campus
flag over whitehouse
state police on vt's campus
It came out a few hours ago now that Cho Seung-Hui is the name and person suspected to be responsible for these shootings. Cho Seung-Hui is from centreville, virginia which is just on the other side of fairfax county from me (history wise, it's not too far from manasas). He attended a public high school in chantilly, virginia and I have known several people who came from that same area and it's a little unsettling. He graduated from high school the same year that I did, 2003 and it appear that he was also the same year in undergrad at VT. The northern virginia area is highly populated with asians and so it is apparent that this guy was highly depressed and unable to overcome his mind. The profile that I've read so far about Cho Seung-Hui reminds me of a Criminal Minds Episode that I saw a few weeks ago on CBS. The character was this kid who, weird-so prepare, would fantasize(sp?) about having sex with prostitutes, but instead of doing anything with them, he would pull out a knife and kill them. In the episode, the kid knew that he was crazy and something was going on and was trying his best to prevent himself from hurting others by going and taking himself to police, but continued to be skitzo. Evidence has so far shown that this man at virginia tech was having issues and had apparently been referred to couseling. Because this guy was what police would classify as a minority, although he evidently did not grow up in a minoritized area, it does keep those old-fashioned people on their racist and stereotypical kicks and really, not every single asian in the world knows kung fu or can kill with their bare hands. Most asians or asian-decent that I've interacted with my whole life have been some of the nicest people, which could very well outline why this guy was quiet. Nice guys out in the world today, especially at a state school, have a much harder time interacting, I would suspect, and relating to the rest of this world. I am curious to see the final profile of this kid in the coming days and weeks.
One thing that hits not only the state of virginia, but this northern area of virginia is that back in 2002, the sniper shootings occured and it is clear by the evidence that this Cho Seung-Hui guy was around and living in the area. When another shooting would happen, schools around the DC region would go on lock down and students were stuck inside while local, state, and federal law enforcement were out looking for muhammad(sp?). I assume that police may check into any relation to this as well or this kid praising this back a few years ago. So many unaswered questions and will remain so for the current time.
I feel bad for many of the local police and the president of VT down there. I really hope that no one has to lose their job over this, but in today's society, everyone wants to blame someone and so someone else, who was not in any way at fault, will suffer because of this. Why are dorms not locked during the day? People go exercising during the day and dont want to have to take their emergency purse with them while doing so. It's not hard to piggy back ontop of someone to get inside of a dorm. Multiple reasons as to why the first shooting was not enough to close down the entire region of probably over 30,000+ people. That's rediculous. People would complain about that as well. It's a lose-lose situation.
I read a little of the list of those who died. It looks like several professors were killed. VT-one of the top engineering schools in the country has lost some of those professionals. This is very sad. I'm sure that the rest of the list will be posted in the coming days, after those family members are notified, but who knows.
This is apparently a very deadly area to live in....Washington DC area. You've got people in Iraq being killed because of this federal government. You have snipers a few years back and now you can this guy. Fortunately that the local dc district has cut down on crime in the past 10 years, but it still happens occasionally, but not really mass executions like the national news worthy ones. What are we going to do? Why are there so many psychos living here? How can we find these people and make sure that they know people do love them? Sure, we can try to change the world, go off to other places, but this northeastern region just seems to be getting more and more worse? What can we do? I don't know. I've grown up here. I know how people area. I've seen a lot. It makes you grow up quick. Is this just something that we decide to live with or what? I don't know. I'm done typing though.
Here are some AP photos that I pulled over from yahoo:
Cho Seung-Hui Cho Seung-Hui Cho Seung-Hui - the dudes townhouse across the other side of fairfax from me. memorial on campusflag over whitehouse state police on vt's campus
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