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A PROFESSOR who taught the Virginia Tech gunman today claimed she had warned university authorities repeatedly about his behaviour.
Lucinda Roy said her warnings about Cho Seung-Hui should have been taken more seriously.
She raised fears after being concerned by the 23-year-old student's disturbing creative writing.
But university officials apparently said nothing could be done and referred him to counsellors.
The South Korean, described as a "loner" and an "introvert", went on to murder 32 people at the university in the worst shooting rampage of its kind in US history on Monday.
Virginia governor Tim Kaine has announced an independent review of how the authorities responded to the tragedy.
Some students have complained that they received no warning from the university until an e-mail hours after the gunman is thought to have begun his killing spree by murdering 19-year-old Emily Hischler and her friend Ryan Clark in a dormitory. Two hours later, a further 30 people were killed in the second shooting in the Norris Hall engineering building.
Speaking to CNN, Ms Roy, a former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English Department, said that she was so disturbed by Cho's creative writing that she decided to take him out of the classroom for one-to-one tutoring.
She said: "I was so uncomfortable that I didn't feel that I could leave him in the classroom."
She said that she "repeatedly" spoken to university authorities about the student and said her warnings should have been taken more seriously.
The university has not responded to her comments.
It has emerged that Cho, who shot himself after the killing spree, was believed to be taking medication for depression and was becoming increasingly violent and erratic.
He reportedly left a note in his dormitory in which he railed against "rich kids", "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus, reports stated.
Gov Kaine said the independent panel would carry out a "thorough" review of the authorities' handling of the disaster.
He said the panel would be appointed at the request of the university and would begin its inquiry immediately.
But he warned against making snap judgements, sand said he had "nothing but loathing" for those who tried to make the tragedy "their political hobby horse to ride".
A former classmate of Cho's, Ian MacFarlane, reportedly posted two plays he said Cho wrote on the Internet.
In an internet blog, he described Cho's work as "like something out of a nightmare", with "really twisted, macabre violence".
Meanwhile, sympathetic messages for the victims continued to flood in from around the world. South Koreans expressed shame and shock that one of their own was the gunman.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun offered condolences to victims.
He said: "I and our people cannot contain our feelings of huge shock and grief.
"I pray for the souls of those killed and offer words of comfort from my heart for those injured, the bereaved families and the US people."
A PROFESSOR who taught the Virginia Tech gunman today claimed she had warned university authorities repeatedly about his behaviour.
Lucinda Roy said her warnings about Cho Seung-Hui should have been taken more seriously.
She raised fears after being concerned by the 23-year-old student's disturbing creative writing.
But university officials apparently said nothing could be done and referred him to counsellors.
The South Korean, described as a "loner" and an "introvert", went on to murder 32 people at the university in the worst shooting rampage of its kind in US history on Monday.
Virginia governor Tim Kaine has announced an independent review of how the authorities responded to the tragedy.
Some students have complained that they received no warning from the university until an e-mail hours after the gunman is thought to have begun his killing spree by murdering 19-year-old Emily Hischler and her friend Ryan Clark in a dormitory. Two hours later, a further 30 people were killed in the second shooting in the Norris Hall engineering building.
Speaking to CNN, Ms Roy, a former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English Department, said that she was so disturbed by Cho's creative writing that she decided to take him out of the classroom for one-to-one tutoring.
She said: "I was so uncomfortable that I didn't feel that I could leave him in the classroom."
She said that she "repeatedly" spoken to university authorities about the student and said her warnings should have been taken more seriously.
The university has not responded to her comments.
It has emerged that Cho, who shot himself after the killing spree, was believed to be taking medication for depression and was becoming increasingly violent and erratic.
He reportedly left a note in his dormitory in which he railed against "rich kids", "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" on campus, reports stated.
Gov Kaine said the independent panel would carry out a "thorough" review of the authorities' handling of the disaster.
He said the panel would be appointed at the request of the university and would begin its inquiry immediately.
But he warned against making snap judgements, sand said he had "nothing but loathing" for those who tried to make the tragedy "their political hobby horse to ride".
A former classmate of Cho's, Ian MacFarlane, reportedly posted two plays he said Cho wrote on the Internet.
In an internet blog, he described Cho's work as "like something out of a nightmare", with "really twisted, macabre violence".
Meanwhile, sympathetic messages for the victims continued to flood in from around the world. South Koreans expressed shame and shock that one of their own was the gunman.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun offered condolences to victims.
He said: "I and our people cannot contain our feelings of huge shock and grief.
"I pray for the souls of those killed and offer words of comfort from my heart for those injured, the bereaved families and the US people."
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