Fox News is reporting that in 2005 a Virginia special justice declared Cho Seung-Hui mentally ill and "an imminent danger to others."

Cho "is mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent danger to self or others as mental illness, or is seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment," reads the order, obtained by FOX News.

Cho had previously been accused of stalking two female students on campus and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005 after an acquaintance worried he might be suicidal, police said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, MSNBC is reporting on a package of videos Cho apparently sent the network sometime during his shooting rampage Monday:

Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building Monday morning, Cho Seung-Hui sent NBC News a rambling communication and videos about his grievances, the network said Wednesday. [snip]

Network officials turned the material over to the FBI and said they would not immediately disclose its contents beyond characterizing the material as "disturbing." It included a written communication, photographs and video.

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," said in a posting on the program's "Daily Nightly" blog that the communication was received earlier Wednesday. He described it as a very long "multimedia manifesto."

The package, timestamped in the two-hour window between Monday's shootings, was sent to NBC News head Steve Capus.It contained digital photos of the gunman holding weapons and a manifesto that "rants against rich people and warns that he wants to get even," The Associated Press quoted an unidentified New York law enforcement official familiar with the case as saying.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about it. Police said the development might be "a very new, critical component of this investigation."

"We're in the process right now of attempting to analyze and evaluate its worth," said Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of Virginia State Police.

There was obviously a terrible breakdown at Virginia Tech which allowed a man like Cho to not only continue attending the university, but also live among its students -- who had not been warned of Cho's mental condition. We'll know more about the videos once they've been examined, but their existence highlights in dramatic detail just how much time elapsed between the first shootings and Cho's second act.

This is not going to end well for VT. In short order, the victims' families are going to start demanding answers and their rage will be directed squarely at VT.