Virginia gunman sent final video
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="629" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><div class="mxb"><div class="sh">Virginia gunman sent final video </div></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="416"><font size="2"><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="208" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="5"><img height="1" alt="" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width="5" border="0"/></td><td class="sibtbg"><div class="o"><img height="152" alt="Picture of Cho Seung-hui that he sent to NBC News" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42819000/jpg/_42819443_cho203ap.jpg" width="203" border="0"/>
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</div><div class="mva">Cho's package to NBC contained pictures of himself with guns </div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><b>The student who shot dead at least 30 people at Virginia Tech sent a package to the US TV network NBC News on the day of the shootings, police said. </b><p>The package contained "disturbing" photographs, video and writings, NBC said, posted from the college campus between the two rounds of killings. </p><p>On Thursday, police lamented the NBC decision to show the footage. </p><p>A total of 33 people, including the gunman himself, died in shootings at two locations on Monday. <!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></p><p>In the videos Cho Seung-hui is shown pointing guns at the camera, and ranting angrily. </p><p>"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," the 23-year-old gunman said angrily, in an excerpt shown on NBC Nightly News. </p><p><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="208" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="5"><img height="1" alt="" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width="5" border="0"/></td><td class="sibtbg"><div class="o"><img height="152" alt="Students holding a memorial service for victims" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42820000/jpg/_42820579_ap_memoria203.jpg" width="203" border="0"/>
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</div><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><div class="arr"><a class="" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6570369.stm"><b>Gunman's message</b></a>
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</div><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment-->"But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off," Cho said. </p><p>"I didn't have to do this. I could have left. I could have fled. But now I will no longer run," the gunman said. </p><p>Police said on Thursday that they were disappointed at NBC's decision to broadcast some of Cho's footage. </p><p>But Steve Flaherty, superintendent of Virginia State Police, denied he was worried the videos could encourage others. </p><p>"A lot of folks saw images that were very disturbing," he told a news conference. </p><p>"This is a kind of image that people in my line of work have to see, and I'm worried that people who are not used to seeing them had to see them." </p><p>Police have already revealed that Cho was admitted to a mental health unit in late 2005. </p><p>He was sent for evaluation after two female students made complaints against him, they said. </p><p><b>'Very angry'</b>
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</p><p>NBC said a time stamp on the package indicated it was sent in the two-hour interval between two killings in a dormitory and a second, massive round of killings in a classroom building. </p><p>The envelope, sent to NBC's headquarters in New York, was slightly misaddressed and carried the wrong postal zip code, which delayed its delivery by a day. </p><p>The TV network said the package was received in Wednesday morning's mail. <!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="208" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="5"><img height="1" alt="" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width="5" border="0"/></td><td class="sibtbg"><div class="o"><img height="152" alt="Student weeping at Virginia Tech University" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42820000/jpg/_42820581_ap_praying203.jpg" width="203" border="0"/>
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</div><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--></p><p>It contained an 1,800-word diatribe and 43 photos, 11 of them showing Cho aiming handguns at the camera. He also sent 28 video clips. </p><p>Head of NBC News Steve Capus said it had a "rambling, manifesto-like statement embedded with a series of photographs." </p><p>Mr Capus said the material was "hard-to-follow... disturbing, very disturbing - very angry, profanity-laced," but did not contain any images of Monday's shootings. </p><p><b>Student complaints</b>
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</p><p>Two people were killed at the West Ambler Johnston Hall, a university dormitory, at 0715 on Monday. </p><p>Two hours later Cho killed 30 others, plus himself, at the Norris Hall complex across campus. </p><p>Authorities have not yet linked the 23-year-old to any of those he killed. </p><p>Police say the same gun was used at both locations but have not definitely proved that Cho was at West Ambler Johnston at the time of the shootings there. </p><p>The complaints by students against Cho were made in November and December 2005, around the time Cho's English teachers raised concerns over his writing and general behaviour. </p><p>In the aftermath of the shootings, teachers and fellow students have spoken of Cho's extreme moods, violent writings and unpredictable behaviour.<!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment-->
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