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| 赵承熙两次枪案之间寄包裹给NBC
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| 时间：2007/04/19 出处：NBC |
弗吉尼亚理工大学18日下午针对枪击案再度召开记者会，会中提到枪手赵承熙（Cho Seung-Hui）在生前寄了份包裹给纽约NBC电视台，根据邮戳显示，赵承熙是在两次枪案之间寄出包裹。
弗吉尼亚州警监督Steve Flaherty表示，赵承熙在死亡前曾将一份附有相片、录像带、手写稿的包裹寄到纽约NBC电视台。目前NBC已将包裹转交给警方。
美联社引述一不愿透露姓名的官员表示，包裹包括了赵承熙拿着武器的数位影像；而手写稿的内容则责备了富者、并警告着他希望取得与富人一样的平等权。
“这可能是非常新、非常重要的调查资讯。我们正在分析这份资料的价值。”Steve Flaherty说，不过警方并未公开细节。
NBC表示，包裹的邮戳显示赵承熙是在第一次枪案和第二次枪案之间的两小时内，将包裹寄出的，收件人是NBC主管Steve Capus。
在收到包裹后，他们立即将此份重要文件转交警方，该文件据NBC描述，充满“冗长的咒骂”。
美联社指出，若包裹真的是在第一次与第二次枪击之间寄出的，如此便能解释赵承熙在两小时的时间中，去了哪里，又做了什麽事。
Gunman sent 'disturbing' photos, writings to NBC
(CNN) -- The man blamed for killing at least 30 people in Monday's shootings on the Virginia Tech campus before killing himself mailed a package containing photographs and writings to NBC, authorities announced Wednesday.
NBC reported Cho Seung-Hui apparently mailed the package during the two-hour lull between the shootings at the West Ambler Johnston Hall dormitory and the shootings at Norris Hall.
"This may be a very new critical component of this investigation," State Police Col. Steve Flaherty said.
The network immediately notified authorities and the original documents were sent to the FBI for analysis, he said.
NBC reported that it agreed not to immediately disclose the contents of the package "beyond characterizing the material as 'disturbing.' "
CNN also learned Wednesday that in 2005 Cho was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice, who declared he was "an imminent danger" to himself, a court document states.
A temporary detention order from General District Court in the commonwealth of Virginia said Cho "presents an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness."
A box indicating that the subject "Presents an imminent danger to others as a result of mental illness" was not checked.
In another part of the form, Cho was described as "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment."
A handwritten section of the form describes Cho. "Affect is flat and mood is depressed," said the order, which was signed December 14 by Special Justice Paul M. Barnett. "He denies suicidal ideation. He does not acknowledge symptoms of a thought disorder. His insight and judgment are normal."
Barnett would not discuss Cho's case with CNN.
Student complaints
Police first investigated Cho in November 2005 after a student complained about him calling her and contacting her in person, university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said.
Cho was sent to the university's Office of Judicial Affairs, which handled the complaint, the outcome of which is confidential, university officials said.
"The student declined to press charges and referred to Cho's contact with her as annoying," Flinchum said of the November investigation.
Police investigated him again the next month when a female student complained about instant messages Cho sent her, Flinchum said.
"Again, no threat was made against that student. However, she made a complaint to the Virginia Tech Police Department and asked that Cho have no further contact with her," the chief said.
After police spoke to Cho, they received a call from a student concerned that he might be suicidal.
Officers spoke to Cho "at length" then asked him to see a counselor. He agreed to be evaluated by Access Services, an independent mental health facility in Blacksburg, the chief said.
"A temporary detention order was obtained and Cho was taken to a mental health facility" on December 13, 2005, he said.
A student asking to be identified only as Andy said he was the one who told police that Cho was suicidal. Police "took [Cho] away to the counseling center for a night or two," said the student, who used to room with Cho.
uthorities said they received no more complaints about Cho before the shootings, Flinchum said.
The university and its police continue to defend themselves against students' complaints that they weren't adequately warned about Cho -- even after two people were killed in a dormitory early Monday morning.
Though police have linked a gun used in Norris Hall -- where 31 people, including Cho, died -- they have yet to say he is officially accused of the first shootings.
Professor recalls 'mean streak'
As tales of Cho's worrisome behavior continued to surface Wednesday, a renowned poet and author who taught the 23-year-old gunman called the notion that he was troubled "crap" and said he was "mean."
Nikki Giovanni said she immediately suspected Cho when she got word of the shootings.
"I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was," Giovanni said, referring to her former pupil. "I would have been shocked if it wasn't."
Cho's poetry was so intimidating -- and his behavior so menacing -- that Giovanni had him removed from her class in the fall of 2005, she said. Giovanni said the final straw came when two of her students quit attending her poetry sessions because of Cho.
"I was trying to find out, what am I doing wrong here?" Giovanni recalled thinking, but the students later explained, "He's taking photographs of us. We don't know what he's doing."
Giovanni went to the department's then-chairwoman, Lucinda Roy, and told her, "I was willing to resign before I was going to continue with him." Roy took Cho out of Giovanni's class.
"I know we're talking about a troubled youngster and crap like that, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings; troubled youngsters drink and drive," Giovanni said. "I've taught troubled youngsters. I've taught crazy people. It was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."
Roy, who taught Cho one-on-one after removing him from Giovanni's class, recalled Cho exhibiting a palpable anger and secretly taking photographs of other students while holding the camera under his desk.
His writings were so disturbing, she said, that she went to the police and university administrators for help.
"The threats seemed to be underneath the surface," she said. "They were not explicit and that was the difficulty the police had."
Ian McFarlane, who had class with Cho, said two plays written by Cho were so "twisted" that McFarlane and other students openly pondered "whether he could be a school shooter."
University stands by handling of shooting
Though two professors, Cho's former roommates and a classmate and police all recall Cho behaving in a disturbing manner, officials said there was nothing criminal about his demeanor.
The gun shop owner who sold him the Glock 9 mm, one of the guns used at Norris Hall, said the resident alien from South Korea easily passed a background check last month before buying the weapon.
sked about Roy's concerns that Cho was writing troubling plays and poems in his classes, Flinchum said no official report was filed.
"These course assignments were for a creative writing course and the students were encouraged to be imaginative and artistic," the chief said. "The writings did not express any threatening intentions or allude to criminal activity. No criminal violation had taken place."
Flinchum's remarks were the latest in the university's defense, not only of its handling of situations that arose before the shootings, but also of how it handled situations in the immediate aftermath of the shooting at West Ambler Johnston dorm.
The recurring question: Why weren't students warned or the campus locked down before Cho was able to walk into Norris Hall more than two hours later and exact the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history?
Flinchum said Wednesday that details gleaned from the investigation at the dorm led to a decision among university officials and police that the campus did not need to be locked down.
"There are a lot of details we were providing to the administration and a decision was made based on that information," the chief said.
University President Charles Steger has said police believed the incident was "a domestic fight, perhaps a murder-suicide" that was contained to one dorm room.
Police cordoned off the 895-student dorm and all residents were told about the shooting as police looked for witnesses, Steger said.
"I don't think anyone could have predicted that another event was going to take place two hours later," Steger said.
Authorities are still investigating whether Cho had any accomplices in planning or executing Monday's rampage. |
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