Police at Virginia Tech University say a gunman who killed 30 people and then himself in a classroom building on Monday was a South Korean student at the university.
Police identified the gunman as Cho Seung-hui, a 23-year-old in his final year of college. They say he was in the U.S. as a resident alien.
Police still have not confirmed that the same person was responsible for two separate killings earlier at a dormitory building on the campus, although ballistic tests show one of the guns was used in both shooting incidents. A state police official said it is reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both places, but police cannot say with certainty he was.
Police have not given a motive for the attacks.
The university in the eastern U.S. state of Virginia is closed Tuesday. Students, faculty, community members and political leaders including President Bush will gather at 2:00 p.m. edt, 1800 utc for a prayer meeting to mourn the 33 deaths. The attack is being called the worst shooting incident in the United States.
Some Virginia Tech students and their parents are expressing anger over the failure of officials at the university to warn students and lock down the campus immediately after the first dormitory shootings.
School President Charles Steger told reporters Monday that officials and police thought the first killings were an isolated incident and that the killer had left the campus. Two hours later a gunman killed 30 people and wounded 15 others in another building before committing suicide.
Among the dead were an engineering professor from India and an Israeli lecturer.
Witnesses described horrific scenes as the gunman calmly fired into groups of students huddled behind desks.
The gunman killed himself before police arrived.
Virginia Tech is a state university with about 26,000 students. It is located in the southwest corner of the state, about 386 kilometers from Washington, D.C.
The university's web site says that more than 1,400 international students are enrolled at Virginia Tech in any given year.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.
