The family of university campus killer Cho Seung-Hui apologised for the tragedy, saying they “never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence”.

Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-hui was diagnosed with autism after the family emigrated to the US, a relative in South Korea said.

EXCERPTS from video recordings sent to NBC News by Cho Seung-hui — the student who shot at least 32 people at Virginia Tech university on Monday.

US President George Bush said tonight that mass shootings are a reminder that people must be willing to raise a red flag about others’ disturbing behaviour.

While the parents of the Virginia Tech gunman have kept silent and out of public view, his uncle met an official from a Korean-American association and said he "assumes" the parents are doing fine.

The disturbing manifest and videos of Cho Seung-Hui delivering a speech about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs" had some marginal value to police, but did not add much that investigators did not already know, officials said today.

American news network NBC today aired another round of videos Cho Seung-Hui posted to them in the middle of the killings of 32 people at Virginia Tech.

The gunman in the US university massacre had troubled his parents as a child because he would not speak, news reports in South Korea said today.

The images of the gunman who was responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech silenced crowds near campus as they played on television screens.

The Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and sent television network NBC a package midway through his murderous rampage.

The Virginia Tech gunman sent photographs, videos and writings to US broadcaster NBC in New York before he died in the massacre that left 33 people dead, authorities said.

SOME of those affected by the Virginia Tech university shootings were quick to direct their anger and grief not just at the gunman who killed 32 people, but also at the two weapons he used.

AUTHOR Lionel Shriver said murderers behind mass school shootings in the US “compete” with each other for the highest body count.

CHO SEUNG-HUI’S writing was so disturbing he was referred to the university’s counselling service.

The gunman involved in the deadliest shooting in modern US history had previously been accused of stalking two female students and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005, but no charges were filed, police said today.

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in US history got another scare this morning as police in commando gear with weapons drawn swarmed the building which houses the president’s office.

South Korean students heading to the US expressed concern today over a possible backlash after a shooting rampage at an American university committed by one of their fellow nationals, but said they would not change their study plans.

China today said it was regrettable that some US media reports were quick to blame a Chinese student for the Virginia Tech massacre.

An Indonesian mother bemoaned the availability of guns in the United States after learning her son was among those killed in a school massacre, while South Koreans expressed shame and shock that one of their own was the gunman.

Cho Seung-Hui walked into a Virginia gun shop five weeks ago, put down a credit card and walked out with a Glock 19 handgun and a box of ammunition. He paid $572 (€421).

Horrible, real-world happenings are unfolding almost simultaneously in the virtual world, as Virginia Tech students and people from all over the world gather online to grieve and vent.

President Roh Moo-hyun held a special meeting with aides today to discuss the US campus shooting, as the public expressed shame over a South Korean citizen being identified as the gunman.

The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner known as “the question mark kid”, who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing.

The US President ordered flags flown at half mast today in honour of those killed in America’s deadliest shooting spree.

The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people, including himself, dead was identified today as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school’s counselling service.

South Korea’s foreign ministry expressed its condolences today to victims after it emerged that the suspect in the shooting spree at Virginia Tech university in the United States was South Korean.

A South Korean national was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, the university said today.