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Apr 17, 2007 7:09 pm US/Pacific

LA's Korean Leaders Worry About Va. Tech Reaction

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Leaders of LA's Korean immigrant community say they are worried about fallout from the revelation that the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people and himself was a South Korean immigrant.

Eun-Sook Lee, director of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium, a Los Angeles-based civil rights organization, said media reports focusing on the gunman's nationality made it seem more than an isolated incident.

Authorities identified the shooter as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior majoring in English. Officials say he arrived in the United States as boy from South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington DC.

Lee says her organization has received a half-dozen angry calls, but no threats.

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