(U-WIRE) BLACKSBURG, Va. – Karan Grewal, a senior accounting major at Virginia Tech, spent his senior year unaware of Cho Seung-Hui’s plan to commit the deadliest shooting in the United States.
Grewal lived in the room opposite Cho in their six-person suite in Harper Hall.
Grewal stated that Cho kept to himself the entire year beginning from day one.
“He never said a word, never looked me in the eye,” Grewal said. “I always saw him alone; once I saw him at D2 eating alone.”
No one ever visited him, and when his parents did, they never spoke to anyone, he said.
Grewal noted that he seemed to have been taking care of himself. He noticed that Cho had started going to the gym around February and was always getting up early.
Grewal stated that he and his suitemates always assumed that Cho was just a shy, lonely student.
However, after the release of horrifying pictures and video produced in his suite, Grewal has a completely different perspective.
NBC has shown Grewal the videos, but he hasn’t seen more than what has been shown on television.
“Until yesterday he was just lonely and tired of it,” Grewal said. “I feel scared that he was planning this all year.”
Grewal said that he never knew anything about his past. This is probably because he had no friends, and no one to expose his past, he said.
Finally, Grewal mentioned that there was no way for anyone to know about the planning of his actions.
He believes that Cho has been disengaging himself from everyone on purpose so that he could plan his incident in secrecy.
In addition, the rooms all have cabinets that no one would think to look in to find any weapons.
“He could have hid them anywhere,” Grewal said. “He has been hiding himself from everyone.”
Thirty-three people were killed, including Cho, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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