Loner Behind The Campus Shooting Case Study

This executive summary report is on Cho Seung-Hui, also known as the “loner behind the campus killing” and the campus massacre he committed at Virginia Polytechnic University. Cho was a confused, deranged, and lonely student at the University of Virginia. He went on a shooting spree and killed 32 people which included 27 students and 5 faculty members and once he was done with his killing spree he decided to take his own life. Cho was a coy child who excelled in school, excelled in math and who it is said experienced severe bullying from the other kids in school. When he got to middle school, he was diagnosed with a significant depressive illness and a serious anxiety disorder along with selective mutism. When he got to high school, he was

He had this paranoia that he was being judged by everyone around him and he carried around this anger for those people that was only created in his head by himself and his paranoia. It is hard to be around people who are deeply engrossed in their own dysfunctional world and who find it difficult to communicate with others, like Cho did. They will therefore probably be avoided or harassed. Even though some may attribute his behavior to being bullied as a child, it in no way is any justification for what he did to his peers and faculty. Should Cho be described as suffering from schizophrenia and paranoia, then should it be justifiable to say that his actions were merely a sign of payback? When people feel that their actions are committed as a form of revenge, it makes them feel that they are justified for their internal mental and emotional disturbance that they are going through and form a type of connection with their excuse. If we were to in fact associate Cho’s behavior with this theory, then we would have to acknowledge that his belief in thinking that his distress was caused by other people's conceited displays of superiority, and they ought to be punished for