-- getting the section url from article. This has been done so that correct url is plays full of death and paedophilia. He was so silent and menacing that prescription medicine for depression, his former roommates spoke for the first time about his weird and brooding behaviour.
One, who shared a bedroom with Cho in 2006, revealed that in an entire year the South Korean mdash; he was Cho got so upset after police contacted him that he sent a message to Andy, one of the roommates, declaring: ldquo;I might as kill myself now. rdquo; repeatedly to Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and mdash; ldquo;over and over again rdquo; mdash; the song Shine by Collective Soul. He refused all attempts to engage him in conversation, However, on one occasion after he had been to a party with John and Andy and had drunk several beers, Cho confided that he had an imaginary girlfriend, a supermodel.
ldquo;She called him lsquo;Spanky rsquo; and he called her lsquo;Jelly rsquo;, rdquo; Andy said. friends to come by my rooms, especially girls. I thought several times of trying to follow him, to see if maybe he was going to stalk some other girl.
rdquo; Cho regularly went on late-night bicycle rides, sometimes lasting several hours, and watched hours of wrestling on television. November 2005. Cho told his roommates that he had gone to look into her eyes, and what he saw was ldquo;promiscuity rdquo;.
Two, three-page, expletive-filled notes were found in Cho rsquo;s campus room after his rampage, which ended with massacre. The notes railed against ldquo;deceitful campus charlatans rdquo; and ldquo;rich The English major wrote poems, a novel and two plays so disturbing that many of his classmates stopped attending classes. In one play, Mr Brownstone,three teenage characters, including a student named John, play poker machines in a casino and talk of their hatred for Mr Brownstone, their maths teacher.
ldquo;I wanna watch him bleed the way he makes us kids bleed, rdquo; says Jane, one of In the other play, Richard McBeef, John, a 13-year-old boy, accuses his stepfather of molesting him and killing his father. He tries to choke his ldquo;I hate him. Must kill Dick.
Must kill Dick. Dick must die. rdquo; It ends with Cho rsquo;s first victim on Monday was Emily Hilscher, 19, whom he shot in her dormitory at 7.
15am. Her roommate, Heather Haugh, said her friend did not know Cho. ldquo;I rsquo;ve never seen him, rdquo; she said.
ldquo;I don rsquo;t know his name. Emily didn rsquo;t know him, as far as I know. rdquo; Police at first believed Miss Hilscher rsquo;s boyfriend, Karl Thornhill, was involved in the shooting because he was an avid gun user.
Two hours later Cho killed 30 people in a lecture hall across Stephanie Derry was in a playwriting class with Cho this term. She says his plays were ldquo;really morbid and grotesque rdquo;. She added: ldquo;Cho was really, really, quiet.
I can rsquo;t remember one word he said. ldquo;We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something. He even wrote one play about students being stalked by a teacher.
But when I got the call saying it was Cho who had done this, I started crying, bawling. rdquo; Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate, said that reading Cho rsquo;s plays was like shootings my first thought was about my friends and my second was, lsquo;I bet it was Seung Cho rsquo;. He was a loner, obsessed with violence.
rdquo; Cho rsquo;s current roommate, Karan Grewal, 21, stayed up the night before the shootings finishing an assignment. He saw Cho at 5.30am on Sunday.
As usual, Cho was totally uncommunicative and impassive. Grewal said he noticed a hand-held power drill and screwdriver in his room, which police believe Cho used to shave off the serial numbers on his two weapons, the Glock and a Joseph Aust, another of Cho rsquo;s five roommates, said he had no friends or girlfriend and avoided all conversation. He always wore blue jeans, a Cho moved to America in 1992, aged 8, with his parents.
They are employees at a drycleaners in Centerville, a Washington suburb. Neighbours say that they were devoted parents. Cho rsquo;s sister recently graduated from Princeton, the In Cho Seung Hui's play Mr Brownstone, three 17-year-old high-school friends, John, Jane and Jo, are in a casino when they see their maths Mr Brownstone: Hey guys, John, Jane, Joe.
What are you guys doing here? Aren rsquo;t you a little too young (shouts) to be here. Don rsquo;t you have to be 21?
You guys are only 17 (shouts) The three teenagers think for a moment and look away, pretending he doesn rsquo;t John: Did you hear something, Joe, Jane? John: Is it me or do I smell evil around here? Joe: Old is bad enough.
You mix evil with old, and rotting turd-hell on Mr Brownstone (lowering his voice): You f***ing little kids. Don rsquo;t you publicly humilate me! You know what I can do to you at school on Monday?
John: I feel a satantic presence around me. Do you guys feel it? Jane: Do you remember .
. . what rsquo;s his name.
Mr Brownstone. Our current Joe: Ha! That old f**t!
I hate that man!
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