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Cho Seung-Hui, the Killer of Virginian Tech Massacre

Cho Seung-Hui photoCho Seung Hui, a last year student of English major, was identified as the killer of Virginia Tech Massacre, the worst campus shooting in American's history.

Virginia Tech officials today identified the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and then himself on the Blacksburg campus yesterday as 23-year-old Cho Seung Hui of Centreville.

Cho was a South Korean native who immigrated to this country as a child, officials said. He was a senior majoring in English, and lived in a dorm on campus, officials said.

Cho Seung-Hui's shooting victim photoCho's body was found among those of several other slain students in a classroom in Norris Hall, Virginia state police superintendent Col. Steve Flaherty said. He had apparently taken his own life.

Cho lived in Harper Hall, which according to a campus map is one building away from West Ambler Johnston.

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