Twitter beats out local media in breaking the story of the shooting in downtown Seattle today.

Here's a query on Summize that shows all the Twitter messages by people registered in Seattle with keywords "cops, police or shots".

The Virgina Tech shootings were a salvo in a class war in the shooter's mind? What a nut job.

And did Cho buy his weapons before or AFTER he was determined to be a threat to himself and others by psychiatrists. Shouldn't such a person have their access to guns denied?

Quoted: ""Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats," says Cho, a South Korean immigrant whose parents work at a dry cleaners in suburban Washington. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."

Facts on the breaking story behind the Virgina Tech shootings are being updated on this Wikipedia page. This is a good source for a summary of what is known.