Roommates say Cho was lifting weights and got a very short haircut in the weeks just before the shootings. It now appears he may have been developing a new name as well. This metamorphasis, psychologists say, can be essential: the killer has to break utterly free of the real world, and his own, natural identity before he can act. By Tom Foreman, CNN Correspondent
On the early morning of April 16, 2007 Cho Seung-hui changed into A. Ismail. He left his dorm to shoot, possibly by accident, Ryan Clark, and immediately after, Emily Hilscher.
Then he returned to his room, wrote Ismail Ax on his arm, and signed A. Ismail on the package of his 8-page manifesto, photographs and videos he sent to NBC News in New York City.
Who is this A. Ismail who shot 30 more people and wounded 15 students?
Well, two hours before he began his rampage at Norris Hall at Virginia Tech, he might have been Cho Seung-Hui.
The previous year he was the mysterious Mr Question Mark. So since the fall of 2006 he was Mr Question Mark.
That means as of December 2005, he was no longer Cho Seung-hui but a mentally ill individual who was no longer the shy, retiring Seung.
Possibly as early as January 2007, he was Ismail Ax, and with each gun he bought, starting in February, that identity crystallized when he shot Ryan Clark and murdered Emily Hischler.
So as to the question about who Ismail Ax is, his original name was Cho Seung-hui who became Mr. Question Mark in 2006.
This means he knew not who he was in 2006. He wanted to be known as Question Mark.
Was it really Ibrihim, Ismail's Axe?
Is this the legacy of the War on Terrorism? Hell yeah!
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