But several television and radio stations, including MSNBC were reporting that Justice Department sources had confirmed that the gunman was "a young man," and an "Asian individual" in his mid-20s and that he had two nine-millimeter semi-automatic hand-guns and was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
However, his identity was not been released either, and apparently the reason for the delay in naming this individual was because there is an all-out check into the alleged gunman's background and that extensive checks were being carried out of his living situation and all of his connections and to check them against the intelligence data-bases across the country and the world to make sure he was indeed acting alone and doesn't have any connections to terrorist groups or organised crime.
The gunman had not been carrying any identity on his person at the time he carried out the shootings, which began 7.15 am on April 16 in the Ambler-Johnson dorm where he shot two people and then two hours later in classrooms of the engineering Norris Hall, killed the others.
Image : A police officer on the campus of Virginia Tech.
Also see: The strange case of Ken and Sarita Sah
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