Haven’t seen them yet but I’ll take a wild guess and predict that they’re disturbing and violent:
Officials also announced Wednesday that Cho sent pictures and writings to NBC news. The network immediately notified authorities and the original documents were sent to the FBI for analysis, according to State Police Col. Steve Flaherty.
NBC is reporting that it believes the package was mailed between the shootings at Virginia Tech’s West Ambler Johnston Hall and the later rampage at Norris Hall.
“This may be a very new critical component of this investigation,” Flaherty said.
NBC’s Brain Williams blogs:
NBC News has indeed received what I would call a “multimedia manifesto” from the gunman. We received it today, and immediately handed it over to Federal law enforcement authorities. We are still going over our own copy — its a lot of material — we are talking with law enforcement, our own standards people — and Pete Williams, our Justice Correspondent, will join me live on the broadcast to go through the material.
The timing is interesting:
The package, timestamped in the two-hour window between Monday’s shootings, was sent to NBC News head Steve Capus.It contained digital photos of the gunman holding weapons and a manifesto that “rants against rich people and warns that he wants to get even,” The Associated Press quoted an unidentified New York law enforcement official familiar with the case as saying. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about it. Police said the development might be “a very new, critical component of this investigation.”"We’re in the process right now of attempting to analyze and evaluate its worth,” said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of Virginia State Police.
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