Photo Gallery Cho's Macabre Testament
NBC News has received a macabre testament from Cho Seung-Hui, the Blacksburg murderer. Cho posted the package to the broadcaster in the middle of his killing spree, between his first and second bursts of gunfire.
NBC said the package contained a rambling and incoherent 23-page written statement, as well as 28 video clips and 43 photos. Several of the photos showed him posing with handguns, which are assumed to be the same weapons he used in the killings.
The message contains an angry tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs."
"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," the 23-year-old says in the video, speaking in a harsh monotone. "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
One photo shows Cho swinging a hammer at the camera. "Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats," says Cho, a South Korean immigrant whose parents work at a dry cleaners in suburban Washington D.C. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."
The package arrived at NBC headquarters in New York and was opened Wednesday, two days after Cho killed 32 people and committed suicide. The package's postmark showed that it had been mailed at a Blacksburg post office at 9:01 a.m. on Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after the student first opened fire.
Patrons of a Blacksburg restaurant watch the disturbing message on NBC Nightly News on Wednesday.
