The gunman is a korean.
April 17, 2007 — Seung Hui Cho, a permanent resident of the United States, a Korean national and a Virginia Tech student has been identified as the gunman in the shootings that left 33 people dead on the Virginia Tech campus Monday, ABC News has learned.
Cho`s identitiy has been confirmed with a positive fingerprint match on the guns used in the rampage and with INS materials. It is believed that he was the shooter in both incidents yesterday. Sources say Cho was carrying a backpack that contained receipts for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol, sources said. Witnesses had also told authorities that the shooter was carrying a backpack. Sections of chain similar to those used to lock doors at Norris Hall, the site of the 30-victim massacre, were found inside a Virginia Tech dormitory, sources confirmed.
In all, the massacre at Virginia Tech left 33 people dead — including Cho himself — in the worst shooting in moder American history.