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Isolation Defined Cho's Senior Year
Seung Hui Cho's mother sought help at One Mind Church in Woodbridge.
(By Gerald Martineau -- The Washington Post)
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"Nobody ever shuts out anybody here on purpose," said Alia Ghannam, 22, an English major who belongs to a sorority and an a cappella group and was part of the homecoming court this year. "You have to try hard to live in that kind of solitude here."
Solitude came naturally for Cho.
He played video games, but students from the gaming club never met him. He came from a Christian family, but the campus ministers don't remember him. He knew something about video editing, but the regulars at the student television station had not heard of him. Grewal never heard his voice, didn't know what classes he took. Those in the suite next door, he said, never knew of Cho until April 16.
"They were like, 'That guy lived here?' " Grewal recalled.
Others, though, said they tried to be friends with Cho.
Charlotte Peterson, a former Virginia Tech student, said she shared a British literature class with Cho in fall 2005. She regarded him as a loner but had spoken to him during class. At some point during the semester, she said, "he friended me" on Facebook, meaning that he invited her to his Web page as a participant. His name on Facebook was "?" -- a way Cho often identified himself.
But two weeks later, a friend of Peterson's gave her a warning: Stay away from him. The friend told Peterson that Cho had bothered her and that she had gone to police. Peterson deleted herself from Cho's page.
Staff writers Tom Jackman and Theresa Vargas contributed to this report.
