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[bresamil]

I wonder what he was doing/where he was for the almost 2 hours between the dorm shooting and the classroom shooting.

 

[kwillia]

How do they know the first shooting was from a domestic dispute if they don't know who he is?

It's all about confirmation and not jumping to something just because it seems an obvious conclusion. Remember the two blonde girls injured in the same vehicle accident... one ended up dying and they made an assumption they knew who was who and it turned out to be wrong.

I see nothing wrong with them being cautious and taking the time to thoroughly validate their findings.

 

[Larry Gude]

Me...

I see nothing wrong with them being cautious and taking the time to thoroughly validate their findings.

...neither. As I stated, I'm just curious.

 

[Larry Gude]

Good...

All speculation but what I heard was that it was the dorm room of the estranged girlfriend, who knows? Secondly. ever think that after killing the first two he heads over to an engineering building (might be stereotypical, but what better place to look for another Asian male), shoots a ton more, exchanges outer garments with an Asian male, inflicts a wound that appears self-inflicted, places the firearms on this now dead soul and strolls out with the crowd.

...point; The Hannibal Lecter move!

 

[Ken King]

...point; The Hannibal Lecter move!

It's what I would do if I had no intention of offing myself.

 

[Larry Gude]

I think...

How do they know the first shooting was from a domestic dispute if they don't know who he is?

...plenty of people who lived in that dorm saw who got shot and knew who did it and why. Roomates, too.

 

[Larry Gude]

Duly...

It's what I would do if I had no intention of offing myself.

...noted.



That is a rather interesting line of reasoning; need a chaotic setting for cover.

Problem is he was seen by plenty of survivors.

 

[Ken King]

...noted.



That is a rather interesting line of reasoning; need a chaotic setting for cover.

Problem is he was seen by plenty of survivors.

Bullet entrance from under chin lifting face and part of front skull cap off leaving no facial ID, remove any ID from victim and carry with you to make clean get away.

Come on use your imagination.

 

[RoseRed]

Bullet entrance from under chin lifting face and part of front skull cap off leaving no facial ID, remove any ID from victim and carry with you to make clean get away.

Come on use your imagination.

That sure paints a pretty picture.

 

[Larry Gude]

Dude...

Bullet entrance from under chin lifting face and part of front skull cap off leaving no facial ID, remove any ID from victim and carry with you to make clean get away.

Come on use your imagination.

...this ain't Hollywood. You can't blow your face off with a 9mm, not enough of it to render the face indistinguishable. Now, if he shot someone enough times to do that, someone ought to have initiated a man hunt.

"Worse case of suicide I ever seen..."

 

[Ken King]

...this ain't Hollywood. You can't blow your face off with a 9mm, not enough of it to render the face indistinguishable. Now, if he shot someone enough times to do that, someone ought to have initiated a man hunt.

"Worse case of suicide I ever seen..."

Yeah, if he had a shotgun that would be more believable. But couldn't a hollowpoint entering from below the jaw line and through the top of the mouth peal back a portion of the face?

 

[Fubar]

A range of sources, including federal and local officials with knowledge of the case, have told the Washington Post that the assailant was of Korean descent. His parents live in Fairfax County, one official there said.

 

[itsbob]

Listening to Foxnews on my drive home yesterday, they were interviewing the father of one of the casualities of the Columbine shooting. He said that the authorities were not releasing the identities of the victims even though he called numerous times during that day, evening and night because his son hadn't come home. He was watching the news coverage early the morning after and spotted his son lying dead on the sidewalk in some of the film footage. That is how he found out his son was indeed dead. Him and his wife raced to the scene with evidence that they knew it was him, but the authorities would not acknowledge them. He said his son's body layed on that sidewalk for 27 hours before being removed. How horrific.

It is horrific, but there was a lot of wounded people that could be helped. I think 27 hours is a little much, but resources are better used to help those that can be helped. And I don't know what the procedure is, but don't the bodies stay put until the forensic team does their bit? And with how many bodies, if his body was one of the last to get looked at...

I'd be more than a little upset if that was my son, but I would hope someone would set me aside and explain the same to me.

 

[Tonio]

I would be interested to know if the shooter was depressed and suicidal like Dylan Klebold, or purely psychopathic like Eric Harris.

 

[dems4me]

I wonder what he was doing/where he was for the almost 2 hours between the dorm shooting and the classroom shooting.

According to WTOP this morning about 20 min ago, they believe the suspect was in lockdown in the dorm where the first shooting occurred earlier. That was from a campus official or something.

My speculation is the gunman bore false testimony and deilberately threw the cops offtrack saying he saw the gunman and he left the campus and was heading out of state. :shrug:

 

[Larry Gude]

Maybe...

...But couldn't a hollowpoint entering from below the jaw line and through the top of the mouth peal back a portion of the face?

...not the first one...

 

[Larry Gude]

Plus...

Yeah, if he had a shotgun that would be more believable. But couldn't a hollowpoint entering from below the jaw line and through the top of the mouth peal back a portion of the face?

...he's already done and known because of the first two. It seems desperation and madness just sunk in.

 

[slotted]

Name of the shooter is being reported as Seung-Hui Cho, or Cho Seung-Hui.

Also on Google news, they're stating that he returned to his dorm room after the first shooting and left a note.

 

[Dondi]

Name of the shooter is being reported as Seung-Hui Cho, or Cho Seung-Hui.

No wonder he was mixed up, they keep mixing up his name.

 

[Blondie76]

Cho Seung-Hui according to MSNBC.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/?GT1=9246