That would help explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire, at a high-rise dorm, and the second fusillade, at a classroom building. Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after Cho first opened fire. It bore a Postal Service time stamp showing that it had been mailed at a Virginia post office at 9:01 a.m. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people." The package arrived at NBC's headquarters in New York two days after Cho killed 32 people and committed suicide in the deadliest one-man shooting rampage in modern U.S. "You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. "You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience," he says, apparently reading from his manifesto. He repeatedly suggests he was picked on or otherwise hurt. NBC said the package mailed to the network contained a rambling and often-incoherent, 1,800-word video manifesto, plus 43 photos, 11 of them showing him aiming handguns at the camera. Cho raises no race issues, but focuses mostly on class and privilege, railing against "rich people who have Mercedes, gold, and trust funds." The notes end with the phrase, "We'll soon be together." Police sources don't know who the "we" is referring to or if it's a specific reference. "Every other word is 'f-'," one official said. The notes are hard to read and to follow, say officials. As the official put it, "He (Cho) just seemed to hate everybody." The notes, he continued, "are page after page of single-spaced rantings." This contradicts Tuesday's statement by the Virginia State Police that no suicide note was found. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off." Orr reports the writings found in Cho's dorm "appear to be a manifesto" and are "a rambling diatribe against people of privilege," says one law enforcement official. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. Midway through his murderous rampage, Cho went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and delivering a snarling, profanity-laced tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs." "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone. Cho Seung-Hui also sent photographs, videos and writings to NBC in New York before he died in the massacre that left 33 people dead, authorities said. (CBS/AP) The search of the Virginia Tech gunman's dorm room and backpack produced eight pages of notes that law enforcement sources characterize as a "suicide note," reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. Bullets Cho Seung-Hui bought and photographed.
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