Taipei - The gunman who shot up a Virginia university and
killed at least 33 people including himself was an Asian student who
had quarrelled with his girlfriend just before the shooting spree, a
Taiwanese student said Tuesday.
Virginia Tech student Chen Chia-hao told Taiwan cable TV channel
CTI that the shooting rampage on Monday morning began after the
gunman, believed to be a student from China, killed his girlfriend in
the student dormitory after an argument.
'They had a big quarrel in the West Ambler Johnston Hall and he
shot her. Then the RA (dorm supervisor) came, and he shot the RA,'
Chen told CTI by phone.
From the student dorm, the gunman then went to the classroom
building Norris Hall, where he locked up the front and back door of a
classroom with an iron chain, Chen said.
About 25 students were taking a German-language class in that
classroom. The gunman opened fired on the students, before turning
the gun on himself.
'He opened fire to the back of his head and blew up the front part
of his head, which has made it difficult to identify him,' he said.
The shooting left 33 people, including the gunman, dead and about
15 injured.
Virginia Tech has about 26,000 students. The carnage was the worst
campus shooting in US history.
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