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By Rex W. Huppke
Tribune staff reporter
April 18, 2007
Fairfax County, Va., police
investigators said today that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was a
2003 graduate of the same high school attended by an 18-year-old who
went on a shooting rampage last year at a Virginia police station,
killing two officers.
Michael Kennedy, armed with an
AK-47, fired more than 70 rounds in the parking lot of the Sully
District police station on May 8, killing Det. Vicky Armel and Master
Police Officer Michael Garbarino. Kennedy was shot to death by police.
Cho and Kennedy lived in Centreville
and graduated from Westfield High School, said Officer Courtney Thibault
of the Fairfax County Police Department. She said Cho graduated four
years ahead of Kennedy.
Once Cho's identify was released by
police in Blacksburg, Va., home of Virginia Tech, Thibault said Fairfax
County police launched an investigation to determine if there was any
connection between the two shooters. She said they found nothing tying
the two young men together.
"It's just a horrible coincidence,"
she said. "It's hard to believe."
Kennedy's father, Brian Kennedy, was
charged earlier this month with helping his son obtain the AK-47 used in
the rampage. Federal prosecutors claim he was illegally in possession of
a small arsenal of weapons, including rifles, shotguns, handguns and
more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition.
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune
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