到目前为止，CNN等重要媒体对“枪手的身份”还没有作报道。
CNN仅根据在场受害者的亲口描述写道－－
Witness survives by pretending to be dead
POSTED: 9:20 p.m. EDT, April 16, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html
Erin Sheehan described the gunman -- who later shot and killed himself, according to police -- as a young man wearing a short-sleeved tan shirt and black ammunition vest.
He peeked in the door a couple of times before returning and opening fire with a black handgun, first on the professor and then on the students, she said. (Student survives by playing dead)
"He was very silent," said Sheehan, one of only four students in her 25-student German class who were not shot. "He seemed very thorough about it."
Sheehan fell to the ground and pretended to be dead after the gunman's first entrance. But about 30 seconds later, the man returned and opened fire a second time "because I guess he heard us still talking."
"We forced ourselves against the door so he couldn't come in again because the door would not lock," Sheehan said. At that point, the man began firing through the door.
只是在《芝加哥太阳报》的报道中有这么一句：
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/343354,vatech041607.article
The 24-year-old man arrived in San Francisco on United Airlines on Aug. 7 on a visa issued in Shanghai, the source said. Investigators have not linked him to any terrorist groups, the source said.
此外，《芝加哥太阳报》的报道还说在上周这名枪手还试图用3个炸弹来探测校园的安全系统。
Police believe three bomb threats on the campus last week may have been attempts by the man to test the campus’ security response, the source said.
