Virginia Tech Shooter Is South Korean – Seung Hui Cho (조승희)

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Gunman identified; classes canceled remainder of week

Updated at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, 04.17.2007

The Virginia Tech Police Department has confirmed the identification of the gunman responsible for the multiple fatalities at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. Ballistics match at both crime scenes.

The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va.

Classes are canceled for the remainder of the week to allow students to mourn and begin healing. Campus will reopen Wednesday for administrative operations.

Norris Hall has been closed for the remainder of the semester.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3048110&page=1

April 17, 2007 — Seung Hui Cho, a permanent resident of the United States, a Korean national and a Virginia Tech student has been identified as the gunman in the shootings that left 33 people dead on the Virginia Tech campus Monday, ABC News has learned.

Also, according to NPR’s FBI correspondent, “So far we know that this person is South Korean, a resident alien (probably carries a F1 student visa) of the United States. He’s an English major and he was born in 1984.”

He’s also a senior undergraduate. 23 years old.