Cho never looked sad or angry: Indian mate

WASHINGTON: An Indian student and dormitory mate of the South Korean student who shot dead 32 people before killing himself at the Virginia Tech University said Cho Seung-Hui never looked sad or angry.

Karan Grewal, a 21-year-old accounting major at the university in Blacksburg town, described the ordinary start to what turned out to be an extraordinary day.

It was 5.30 on Monday morning when Grewal ended a break after a long night of studies. As he left the bathroom at Harper Hall, 23-year-old Cho, wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt, entered for his morning ritual of applying lotion, inserting contact lenses and taking medication, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Grewal said he went back to sleep but, according to authorities, Cho stayed awake. In less than few hours, Cho had committed the massacre and was dead.

"I never really saw him with anyone," Grewal said. "I never took him to be a sad or angry guy, just shy."

A shaken Grewal said Cho did not seem like a guy who's capable of anything like this.

Cho often ate by himself in the dining hall, Grewal said, adding that he would turn his face away when others greeted him. "He never spoke a word," the Indian student added.