Sources: Virginia Tech gunman left note

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 17, 2007 | Aamer Madhani

[3AngelaD]

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say.

The note included a rambling list of grievances and ended with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.

[sweetiepiezer]

“A firearm AND PROZAC!”

At Columbine it was firearms and Paxil.

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HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

America Over-Dosed:
The Role Of Anti-Depressants
In The Columbine Tragedy
& Other Bizarre Killings
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Columbine/Columbine-Bollyn.html

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Minnesota Red Lake School Shooter Jeff Weise, age 17 - taking Prozac
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/casualties.htm

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Primary care doctors prescribe SSRI-antidepressants to millions of adults, adolescents and children, certainly not only for treatment of depression anymore. SSRI’s are prescribed for school phobias, bed wetting, eating disorders, sleep disturbances (insomnia), nail biting, hair pulling, headache, gambling addiction, alcohol addiction, back pain, stomach upset, premenstrual syndrome, etc., and even to “feel better then well”. SSRI’s have become all purpose “feel good pills”, nowadays, in the year 2000. Unfortunately many doctors are unaware of the major consequences and some of them don’t even seem to care. They argue that the positive effects of SSRI’s far outweigh their negative effects. Nothing could be further from the truth.
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/introduction.htm

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Sam Manzie, 15, attacked, raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy selling items door to door for the PTA. He was on Paxil.

Kip Kinkel, 14, killed his parents and went on a shooting rampage at his Springfield, Ore., high school. He was taking Ritalin and Prozac.

Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl one week after he started taking Dexedrine.

Columbine High School’s Eric Harris was taking Luvox.

T.J. Solomon, 15, who attended Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., was taking Ritalin when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding six.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/2/181622.shtml

Let us not focus on the guns and start focusing on the real killers of our young people. It is the drug companies.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

Well if he was it will be covered up by the media, or the very least it will be downplayed. Now if he was a Christian on the other hand...err, well you know where I’m going!

[Just sayin]

You got that right, it is very useful to keep an eye on those who claim to be keeping an eye on others. Well said there Angela.

[pa mom]

My bet is that he wasn’t even that organized. It might be misspelled or misinterpreted by investigators.

[rogue yam]

He was an English major so I'd hope he'd have written something that could be understood.

That's not the way it's done anymore.

[mborman]

Please...why makes this worse than it is.

What if this killer is actually a muslim terrorist carrying out the orders of his imam?

[Fido969]

Maybe of interest —> you can re arrange the letters ISMAIL AX to be ISLAM with XAI left over.

"Islam with a nine."

[penowa]

"Psychiatrists describe depression as 'anger turned inwards'."

The anger turns OUTWARD in some of the depressed young on anti-depressants. They don't get "happy and carefree" like a lot of older people on them.

[freeperfromnj]

I think he’s been in the U.S. since he was around 8 years old.

[Cold Heat]

That bit of information makes this incident terrorism IMO.

He acted on his perceived victimology and used Allah to justify it.

There is no difference between what he did, and the 9/11 hijackers did, or any of the other myriad of attacks in the the last thirty or so years, in my opinion.

[MeanWestTexan]

“Maybe of interest —> you can re arrange the letters ISMAIL AX to be ISLAM with XAI left over”

“Xai” is a Korean name of some sort, I deduce from a Google search. I defer to someone who can read the language.

[JohnnyZ]

Ouch. I thought those were more like "Lsdklfjsd".

Ooh, I hope he's on my server. Gotta buy that epic flying mount! ;)

[Tzimisce]

So he left a note decrying the “rich white kids” - this guy sounds like a big lib.

So there you have it, liberalism really does kill.

[mborman]

Cho died with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.

Now why did he affix that muslim name on his arm?

He thought by now he'd be in heaven meeting 72 virgins.

[pa mom]

Look at who wrote this article . . .

[drpix]

"Both Jewish and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael as the ancestor of Arab people..."

I may be assuming to much, but can't we assume after four years of college as an "English" major, the killer could make a simple spelling distinction.

"Ismial" not = "Ishmael"

"Ismial" is exclusively a Muslim spelling of a common Muslim name.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

A note believed to have been written by Cho was found in his dorm room that railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus.

He could have been writing about the Congress.

[april15Bendovr]

Something like

polynomials and fuzzy math?

My guess but I am a mathematical retard

[r9etb]

There were mass murderers long before Prozac was invented. What drove them to it?

More to the point ... if the boy was off his meds, then he'd be just as nuts as those previous mass murderers.

[colorado tanker]

Despite this devil coming from South Korea, who’s to say he didn’t convert to or at least sympathize with the Muzzies after he came to the US.

Nothing. My point is right now we don't know anything about him except that he exhibited the behavior of a mentally unstable loner.

That said, the chances of an immigrant from South Korea succumbing to sudden jihadi syndrome are remote, although this "ismail ax" thing is sure strange.