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The Virginia Tech Shooting - April 16 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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NEW MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/morning-cup-of-murder?ref_id=35179&utm_campaign=35179&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Morning%2BCup%2Bof%2BMurder April 16th: The Virginia Tech Shooting (2007) There are some cases that, it seems, everyone, no matter their location, knows the details of. Today’s story is one of those cases. On April 16th 2007 the nation, and even the world, was shook by the news of a horrific shooting at a college campus in Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho, https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3048108&page=1, https://www.biography.com/crime/seung-hui-cho, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/us/22vatech.html, https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cho-seung-hui.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird...

0:13.0

A cup of murder.

0:16.0

There are some cases that it seems everyone, no matter their location, knows the details of. Today's

0:23.4

story is one of those cases. On April 16, 2007, the nation and even the world, was shook

0:31.6

by the news of a horrific shooting at a college campus in Virginia. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

0:39.6

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:43.6

Xiong Hu Cho was born on January 18, 1984, in the South Korean city of Assan, where he lived

0:51.3

with his family in a basement apartment before they immigrated to the United

0:54.6

States in 1992. Entering the new country at the age of eight, Sjong Hu's father hoped that

1:01.3

the move would provide a better education for his children. And though it brought in little money,

1:06.6

he worked hard as a self-employed bookstore owner. After finding out that there was a large South Korean expatriate community in Washington,

1:15.7

the Cho family moved from Detroit and settled into the uncooperated community of Centerville in Virginia.

1:22.3

Living just west of D.C., Siung Hu's father and mother opened a dry cleaning business, began attending a

1:29.6

local Christian church, and shortly after the move, became permanent residence of the U.S.

1:35.3

as South Korean nationals.

1:38.1

Now, while the family seemed to be settling into their new environment incredibly well,

1:42.9

some were concerned with

1:44.4

Xionghu's behavior, even at such a young age. Described as selectively mute and

1:51.7

someone who showed a little affection, an anonymous family acquaintance later recalled,

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