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THU., APR 19, 2007 - 4:12 PM
Former high school classmates say Va. Tech gunman was picked on in
school
MATT APUZZO
Associated Press
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman
Cho Seung-Hui was pushed around and laughed at as a schoolboy in
suburban Washington because of his shyness and the strange, mumbly way
he talked, former classmates say.
Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High
School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South
Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore
attempts to strike up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and
when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids
recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for
participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that
sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
