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Vivacious and popular, Ms Hilscher was shot with a 9mm Glock pistol bought by Cho last month.Scroll down for more ...

Gunman Cho Seung-Hul, and Emily, the student who became his obession - and one of his first victimsIt is said he had become "infatuated" with her although there is no indication she even knew him and, it appears, never mentioned him to any close friends.

By this morning, hundreds of emails in tribute to Ms Hilscher had been posted on a site on the internet set up by her boyfriend Karl, a student at Radford University, another college in Virginia.

There have been suggestions that Mr Thornhill was being arrested by police as a suspect in the killing of Ms Hilscher at her dormitory just as Cho was embarking on his killing spree in the language and engineering block half a mile away.

Their suspicions were heightened by the fact that Mr Thornhill also liked guns and had spent time on the shooting range.

Tommy Pendleton, a close friend of Ms Hilscher's, wrote in block capitals as if to emphasise the point on the internet site: "EMILY HILSCHER IS NOT RELATED TO THE SHOOTER IN ANY WAY REGARDING A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP.

SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH KARL THORNHILL." Ms Hilscher's room-mate Heather Haugh said: "I have never seen him (Cho).

"I don't know his name.

Emily didn't...

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