Virginia Tech students watched the events unfold from their dormitories on Monday. Photo by Roanoke Times.
The man, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech before turning his gun on himself on Monday, is an Asian student at the university, the President Charles Steger announced Tuesday.
The student is thought to have killed his girlfriend after she dumped him and then shot her resident assistant when he tried to intervene.
The student has even written poetry to express his love tragedy.
The name of the shooter, who reportedly lived in the university's dormitory, has not been mentioned.
The rampage at Virginia Tech university, the deadliest shooting in US campus history, killed at least 33 including the gunman.