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Virginia Tech Shooter Identified

Virginia Tech Shooter Identified

Virginia Tech University says a senior from South Korea was behind the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U-S history.

The Virginia Tech Police Department has identified him as Cho Seung-Hui.

The Virginia State Police say ballistics tests show one of the guns that was found after the shooting rampage was used in both shootings, at the dorm and at the classroom building.

The incident ended with the gunman's suicide, bringing the death toll from the two separate shootings to 33.

A police official says it's "reasonable" to assume that Cho was the shooter in both cases, but authorities haven't made the link for sure.

A law enforcement official says Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock nine-millimeter pistol.

Virginia Tech officials have canceled classes for the rest of the week following yesterday's deadly shootings.

The school's president says it's to give students a chance to mourn.

The building, where witnesses say students jumped from windows to avoid gunfire, will be closed for the remainder of the semester.

A hospital official says one of the students injured yesterday in the shootings at Virginia Tech is expected to be released later today

C-E-O Scott Hill says nine students remain hospitalized at Montgomery Regional Hospital and all of them are stable.

He says two others have been transferred to other hospitals with a Level One trauma center.

A hospital in Salem, Virginia has three remaining patients, all in stable condition.

The patient expected to be discharged is being treated there.

At least 26 people were taken to hospitals after the second attack, some seriously injured.

Many found themselves trapped after someone, apparently the shooter, chained and locked doors to the classroom building from the inside.

President Bush will speak at today's convocation at Virginia Tech to remember the 33 people who died and comfort others affected by the shootings.

The first lady will also attend.
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