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Cho Diatribe Offers Little Explanation

April 18, 2007

Blacksburg, Va. — Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui spoke from the grave today in a package mailed to NBC News amid a killing spree that killed 32 at Virginia Tech on Monday; the video, pictures and rambling document offered little explanation for his deadly act but plenty of insight into his disturbed mental condition.

"When the time came, I did it," Cho said in video broadcast by NBC. "I had to."

Investigators now face the task of deciphering the 23-year-old English major's sometime incoherent and always angry multimedia diatribe, in which he focused much of his ire on the rich.

"I didn't have to do this. I could have left. I could have fled. But no, I will no longer run. It's not for me. For my children, for my brothers and sisters that you (expletive), I did it for them," Cho said in one of the videos.

"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today. 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."