Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old South Korean who moved to the US with his family in 1992 and lived as a legal resident, was identified today as the gunman who killed at least 32 people at Virginia Tech before killing himself.

Officials in Blacksburg said Cho was registered in his senior year at Virginia Tech, majoring in English and living on campus. According to CNN, Harry Hincker, associate vice president for university relations, described Cho as a loner.

Cho had lived with his family in Centerville, Virginia, a suburb near Washington. He also had a room in one of the dormitories on the university campus, Harper Hall.

Cho was discovered on Monday among the dead at the scene of the second shooting at Virginia Tech. Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of Virginia State Police, said it was “a reasonable assumption” that Cho was responsible for both shootings at Virginia Tech.

Colonel Flaherty said Cho was “discovered among several of the victims in one of the classrooms. He had taken his own life.” He said that the evidence “has not led us to where we can say with all certainty that the same shooter was involved in both instances, so we are now exploring that evidence and trying to make that trail.”

“We also have no evidence to indicate that there was any accomplice at either event, but we are exploring whether or not there was someone who may or may not have helped Cho at any point during his planning or during his execution of this particular event,” he added.

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