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 Seung-Hui Cho (also known in the news as Cho Seung-Hui) was born in South Korea and immigrated with his parents in 1992 when he was 8 years old. They lived in Detroit then moved to Centreville, Virginia where his parents owned a dry cleaning business. His parents were hard workers and while their English was limited their oldest child, daughter Sun-Kung, went off to Princeton as an Economics major and Cho headed off to Virginia Tech with an English major.Not much is known about his younger life but as a young adult Seung-Hui had developed a pattern of odd behavior. November 27, 2005 a female student reported him to campus police for harassing her via phone and in person. She ended up deciding not to press charges but not long after another female student complained to campus police about receiving instant messages from him. Following the investigation, an acquaintence of Cho's told the police that Seung-Hui might be suicidal. At this intervention authorities got Cho to agree to see a therapist. Unbeknownst to them, a professor who taught Seung-Hui shared concerns with her coworkers about Cho's strange writing. She never filed an official report. Seung-Hui was 23 when he set off on a one-man assault mission against Virginia Tech. He killed 33 people including himself, making it the worst school shooting in history. After the shootings, people who knew him from school described him as a troubled and very quiet individual who rarely spoke or made eye contact. In the weeks before the shooting his behavior became even more strange and unpredictable. His roommate, Karan Grewal, said Cho was always alone: In his down-time he spent time alone on his computer. He watched TV alone. In the dining hall, working out in the gym.. he was always alone and rarely talked to anyone. |