THEWEDNESDAY04.18.2007 BALTIMORE, MD THE SUN’S 170TH YEAR: NO. 108 BALTIMORESUN.COMSUNóóóó FINAL 50 CENTS

SUN FOLLOW-UP 6 indicted in death at Bowling Killer walked Brook Staff counselors waited among them 41 minutes to call an ambulance for teen, Carroll prosecutor says Tech senior is identified as ...... CHO SEUNG-HUI by Greg Garland gunman as stricken campus mourns [ sun reporter]

A Carroll County grand jury has indicted six for- mer staff members at Bowling Brook Preparatory School on charges of reckless endangerment in the death of an East Baltimore teenager who lost con- sciousness while being restrained at the school for juvenile offenders. In announcing the indictments yesterday, Carroll County State’s Attorney Jerry F. Barnes revealed for the first time that counselors waited 41 min- utes to summon an ambulance even though Isaiah Simmons, 17, was unresponsive and needed medi- cal assistance. “A call should have been placed to 911 about 41 minutes before it occurred, and [the six counse- lors] had a duty to do so,” Barnes said. “That’s the essence of the charge.” Asked what the staff did during that delay, Barnes responded, “Nothing. ... They thought he was faking.” Witnesses have said that Simmons was pinned to the ground, face down, for about three hours be- fore passing out and that he had warned staff he could not breathe. The state medical examiner ruled Simmons’ Jan. 23 death a homicide, listing the cause as “sudden death by restraint.” Those indicted, all of whom Barnes said took part in restraining Simmons, were Michael Paul Corra- di, 31, of Middletown, Pa.; Jason Willie Robinson, 25, of Westminster; Mark Richard Sainato, 36, of Keymar; Brian Gerard Kanavy, 31, of Mechanics- burg, Pa.; Dennis Harding, 31, of Baltimore; and Shadi Sabbagh, 33, of Keymar. They could not be reached or did not respond to telephone messages left at their homes yesterday. If convicted, they face up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Under Maryland law, reckless en- [Please see INDICTMENT, 8A]

INSIDE MARYLAND 2 TEENS ARRESTED THE RAMPAGE junior Charles Watson comforts sophomore Stephanie THE GUNMAN Packer at the candlelight vigil at the Drillfield on the Blacksburg campus. IN ACID CASE PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER T. ASSAF [SUN PHOTOGRAPHER] Two teenage boys have been arrested in Eerily quiet, Cho shunned the chemical burning of a toddler last weekend at a Baltimore County play- killer stalked Tears, Hokie spirit friendliness, ground, but the youths are not facing adult halls, firing charges. >>>> PG 1B roommate like a machine fill memorial service from Md. says ...... ing in modern U.S. history. by Robert Little, by Gadi Dechter President Bush and his wife, Laura, by Melissa Harris Jeff Barker and Laura Vozzella joined thousands of orange-and-ma- and Julie Bykowicz and Bradley Olson [ sun reporters] roon clad mourners in the school’s [ sun reporters] [ sun reporters] coliseum for an afternoon service The victims of Monday’s shooting filled with tears and a defiant display BLACKSBURG, VA. // He was a BLACKSBURG, VA. // The first rampage at Virginia Tech ranged of Hokie spirit. quiet English major—aloner who shots came soon after sunrise. from a professor who had survived “People who have never met you avoided eye contact and conversa- The killer walked from room to the Holocaust to the most typical of are praying for you. There’s a power tion and whose creative writing so room in West Ambler Johnston undergraduates. But the apparent in these prayers, real power,” Bush disturbed one professor that she Hall, a freshman dormitory on the killer, students learned yesterday, was said. “As the Scriptures tell us, don’t sought intervention for him. south side of Virginia Tech’s cam- anything but typical — a senior who be overcome by evil, but overcome Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman in pus, and seemed to be searching instructors and classmates believed evil by good.” the Virginia Tech shooting ram- for an acquaintance before he shot was disturbed. Earlier, local and state police offi- page that left 33 dead and more and killed two students, witnesses As new details emerged about cials confirmed what many on this than a dozen injured, was de- SPORTS said. Police started picking through 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui and Mon- campus of more than 26,000 students scribed by those who knew him as day’s shooting attacks in Blacksburg, had feared — that the killer was one troubled and antisocial. the grisly fourth-floor scene soon O’S FALL TO RAYS Va., a stricken campus gathered yes- of their own. The 23-year-old South Korean na- after the first 911 call at 7:15 a.m., The TampaBay Devil Rays knock Orioles vet- terday to grieve the worst mass shoot- [Please see SHOOTING, 13A] tive lived in a residence hall, shar- eran right-hander Steven Trachsel out of the then rushed with weapons drawn ing a three-bedroom suite with toward nearby , young men who said they barely game in a six-run fourth inning and secure a apparently thinking the suspect 6-4 victory over the O’s in Florida. >>>> PG 1E knew him. was there. “I never saw him with anyone,” But the killer, identified yesterday said Cho’s roommate, Joe Aust, 19, NATION as 23-year-old English major Cho a sophomore from Westminster. IRAN LINKED TO TALIBAN Seung-Hui, went the opposite way, “He ate alone in the dining hall and probably mixing in with the yawn- shunned any attempts at friend- U.S.-led coalition forces in southern Afghani- ing, shivering students who were ship.” stan recently intercepted Iranian-made weap- spreading across the grounds for Cho shot himself as police closed ons that were being shipped to fighters for the their early-morning classes. in on Norris Hall, the engineering Taliban,the Pentagon’s top general says. It is Somehow, even as police cars building where police believe he the first time the link had been made. swarmed around the dorm, he was opened fire in at least four class- able to lose himself on the vast rooms, killing 30. Two hours earlier, >>>> PG 3A campus and remain unnoticed for police believe, he shot to death a nearly two hours, hiding his pistols freshman woman and a popular WEATHER and ammunition clips from view residence hall adviser across cam- and concealing any hint of the dou- pus, at a residence hall near his MOSTLY CLOUDY ble murder he had just committed. own dormitory. High, 54; low, 42. Yesterday’s downtown He was spotted just after 9 a.m. in When police searched Cho’s high, 56; low, 48. >>>> PG 6B [Please see ATTACK, 12A] [Please see GUNMAN, 12A] ...... >>>> WEB The Internet becomes a >>>> CHO Killer was legal resident venue for mourning. PG 16A with no criminal record. PG 11A Students Elizabeth Strawn and Jeff Graham sit outside Norris Hall one >>>> SECURITY Campus officials day after a gunman killed 30 people and himself inside the Virginia Tech >>>> POLITICS Tragedy will likely 1234L defend their response. PG 14A classroom building. put focus on gun control. PG 14A

INDEX EDITORIAL 18A // LOTTERY 3B // OBITUARIES 4B // CLASSIFIED 1Y // CROSSWORDS 5C,10Y // TV 8C