Alarm over fantasies of 'the question mark kid'

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.

A chilling picture emerged of Cho Seung-Hui – a 23-year-old senior studying English – after Monday’s bloodbath in Blacksburg that left 33 people dead, including Cho, who killed himself as police closed in.