Massacre maker

Cho Seung-Hui was a ticking time bomb | Edward E. Plowman

The signs were there: He was a troubled 23-year-old everyone described as a loner. He was depressed. He relished violent video games. He took pictures of himself in combat gear. He was a social oddball and wrote strange emails to females. He almost always wore sunglasses, even in class. He ate alone in the dining hall. He would turn away when others greeted him. His formal writings came across as morbid, with violent imagery, deeply troubling his English teacher. He thought the world was out to persecute and harm him, and that angered him, but some day he would exact revenge and make things right. And there were other signs of bipolar disorder, or manic depressive illness, as it's also called.

Cho Seung-Hui was a ticking time bomb at Virginia Tech that could explode any minute.