Outlaw English majors!

And Basketball.

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Gunman came to U.S. at age 8 from South Korea
POSTED: 2:00 p.m. EDT, April 17, 2007

Story Highlights• Gunman was 23-year-old senior English major
• Cho Seung-hui listed Centreville, Virginia, as hometown
• Gunman, family described as quiet

CENTREVILLE, Virginia (CNN) -- The gunman in Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech was Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old senior English major from Centreville, Virginia, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.

Cho took his own life as police closed in on him, according to Col. Steve Flaherty, Virginia State Police's superintendent. Thirty other bodies were found in Norris Hall along with Cho, officials said.

Two people were killed earlier Monday in a college dormitory.

Cho, a South Korean national, was a legal resident of the United States, emigrating from his native country when he was 8, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

He lived in a Virginia Tech dormitory, but not in the one where the first of Monday's shootings took place, university officials said.

"It certainly is reasonable for us to assume that Cho was the shooter in both places, but we don't have the evidence to take us there at this particular point in time," Flaherty said.

Police searched the residence at the home address he listed in Centerville, a suburb of Washington, on Monday night, CNN's Bob Franken reported.

Neighbors and a postal worker who delivered mail to the residence described the family as friendly but quiet, Franken reported. No one was home at the white, two-story townhouse residence Tuesday.

Cho was a loner, according to Larry Hincker, the associate vice president for university relations.

Authorities are having a hard time finding any information about him, Hincker said.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington that Cho was a legal permanent resident and had a green card.

Cho "was very quiet, always by himself," neighbor Abdul Shash told The Associated Press. He said the family was quiet, and Cho often played basketball, according to an AP report.

Fairfax County Schools in Virginia issued a statement Tuesday saying Cho graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, in 2003. The school's Web site describes it as an "Honors" high school.

Court records obtained by the AP show Cho got a speeding ticket from Virginia Tech police on April 7. He was cited for going 44 mph in a 25 mph zone, the AP reported, with a court date set for May 23.