Another Scare at Virginia Tech

Clearly, everyone is rattled after the events of Monday, and a false alarm was triggered this morning.

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office.

The threat of suspicious activity turned out to be unfounded, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said, and the building was reopened. But students were rattled.

"They were just screaming, 'Get off the sidewalks,'" said Terryn Wingler-Petty, a junior from Wisconsin. "They seemed very confused about what was going on. They were just trying to get people organized."

One officer was seen escorting a crying young woman out, telling her, "It's OK. It's OK."

Roommates and professors began opening up Wednesday about the gunman who had killed 32 people and himself in two university buildings on Monday. Roommates said Cho Seung-Hui rarely spoke or made eye contact with them and that his bizarre behavior became even less predictable in recent weeks.

Cho started waking up as early as 5:30 a.m. instead of his usual 7 a.m., his roommate, Joseph Aust, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

"I tried to make conversation with him earlier in the year when he moved in," Aust said. "He would just give one-word answers and stay quiet. He pretty much never looked me in the eye."

Aust was among many students and professors who described the killer in the worst shooting massacre in modern U.S. history as a sullen loner, and authorities said he left a rambling note raging against women and rich kids.

News reports said that Cho, a 23-year-old senior majoring in English, may have been taking medication for depression and that he was becoming increasingly violent and erratic.

Meanwhile, more details on why there was such a long delay before a lockdown was imposed.

Virginia Tech police decided against locking down the school and going on high alert after a double-murder early Monday because they were told the female victim's boyfriend was a gun nut, so considered it an isolated incident, sources said.

Cops, in fact, were questioning the boyfriend when they got calls of the second round of shootings, police said.

So there you go. Someone who's now a gun owner and has done nothing wrong is a gun nut. Good grief.

Elsewhere, check out The Evil Men Do from the Washington Times and Blue Ridge Evil at NRO.

And the drive-by media idiocy continues unabated.

UPDATE: Allahpundit has some interesting new information.