Clues from a Maniac

Cho Seung-Hui provided many clues to the insanity that existed inside of him. But typically, those clues seem only to make sense after the fact. Nonetheless his disturbing side was noticed:

• more than a year before the massacre, Cho was accused of sending unwanted messages to two women and was taken to a psychiatric hospital on a magistrate’s orders and was pronounced a danger to himself

• Cho’s twisted, violence-filled writings and sullen, vacant-eyed demeanor had disturbed professors and students so much that he was removed from one English class and was repeatedly urged to get counseling

• students complained that Cho was taking photographs of their legs and knees under the desks with his cell phone and female students refused to come to class

• another professor said that she, too, relayed her concerns to campus police and various other college units after Cho displayed antisocial behavior in her class and handed in disturbing writing assignments