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.
芝加哥太阳报的报道，来源于此报的线人（THE SOURCE)透露的消息。
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又据世界日报的报道－－
http://www.worldjournal.com/wj-us-news.php?nt_seq_id=1517485&sc_seq_id=1
另据媒体报导，枪手可能是一名华裔男子，去年8月持上海美领馆签发的学生签证从旧金山进入美国。
该男子戴著一顶深红色的帽子，穿黑色皮夹克，拿著一把9厘米手枪与一把点22口径手抢，清早先闯入West Ambler Johnston学生宿舍，对学生开枪，造成一男、一女两人死亡。
两小时后，他又前往学校理工大楼，进入其中一间教室，把教室门锁起来后，对教室内学生开枪，打死30人之后开枪自杀。
全案目前仍在调查中，警方尚未公布枪手的身分。据了解，执法人员认为枪手是锁定目标开枪，不是随意滥射，
而枪手身上没有携带任何身分证明文件或手机，开枪自杀时，又造成面容损毁，难以辨认，其指纹在执法系统资料库中并无纪录。
看来媒体在报道这宗枪击案前乱了阵脚，相互矛盾之处不少：
自杀时又造成面容损毁，身上又无任何证件，系统内无指纹，结果警方数小时之内就确定了枪手身份，太不简单了！？
