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Virginia Tech Gunman: “You Have Blood on Your Hands”

HeadlineApr 19, 2007

There has been a startling new development in the Virginia Tech school massacre. Last night NBC News announced that the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, had mailed the network a multimedia package of disturbing video statements, a written manifesto and photographs of him holding the guns he used to kill at least 30 of his classmates and teachers. NBC aired some of his video statements.

Cho Seung-Hui: “You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today. 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.”

NBC also aired a second video of Cho Seung-Hui.

Cho Seung-Hui: “Do you know what it feels like to have spit on your face and trash shoved down your throat? Do you know what it feels like to dig your own grave? Do you know what it feels like to have your throat slashed from ear to ear? Do you know what it feels like to be torched alive? Do you know what it feels like to be humiliated and impaled upon on the cross and left to bleed to death for your amusement? You have never felt a single ounce of pain your whole life. Did you want to inject as much misery in our lives as you can? Because you can. You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn’t enough, you brats. Your gold necklaces weren’t enough, you snobs. Your vodka and cognac weren’t enough. All your debaucheries weren’t enough to feed your hedonistic needs.”

NBC reported that the package was postmarked just after 9 a.m. on Monday during the lull between the two sets of shootings.

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