The gunman in the rampage at Virginia Tech mailed a “very disturbing” package of violence-laced writings, videos and images to NBC News in New York in between the two sets of shootings, authorities said Wednesday.

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The material did not include footage of 23-year-old student Cho Seung-Hui committing the slayings, according to NBC News.

Cho sent 29 photos to NBC, including 11 showing him pointing a gun at the camera. Another photo shows the Centreville resident with his arms extended holding what appear to be the two weapons used in the shootings. Cho is wearing an ammunition vest and a black, baseball-style cap turned backward.

The package contained a document that NBC News President Steve Capus described as a “rambling, manifesto-like statement embedded with a series of photographs.” Other material, Capus said, was “hard-to-follow … disturbing, very disturbing, very angry.”

“You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today,” Cho said in an excerpt shown on NBC Nightly News. “But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.”

Capus said the package had a time stamp on it indicating that Cho mailed it at 9:01 a.m. from a Virginia post office, about 90 minutes after two students were fatally shot in a dormitory and shortly before 30 faculty members and students were massacred in four classrooms and a stairwell across campus. It arrived at NBC’s offices Wednesday morning.

The package, which is being reviewed by the FBI, could provide a motive and the conclusive link authorities are seeking to prove that Cho was responsible for both killings. He was found among the 30 victims in the classroom building, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police know that one of the guns Cho used in the second attack was used in the dormitory killings, but are not certain Cho pulled the trigger.

The number of known dead from Northern Virginia increased to six Wednesday after authorities listed a full list of the victims. The sixth victim was Daniel Perez Cueva, a junior international studies major from Woodbridge.

The other five victims from Northern Virginia are: Reema Samaha, a freshman from Centreville; Erin Peterson, a freshman from Centreville; Maxine Turner, a senior from Vienna; Leslie Sherman, a junior from Springfield; and Mary Karen Read, a freshman from Annandale.

Samaha and Peterson graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly three years after Cho. It is not known whether Cho was acquainted with them.

A 2002 yearbook listed Cho as a member of the science club, but his photo and name were absent from the 2003 edition, his senior year.

In Blacksburg, police disclosed that Cho, who was born in South Korea, was found mentally ill in December 2005 after an acquaintance told police that he could be suicidal.

A temporary detention order from General District Court in Blacksburg said Cho “presents an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness.” A box indicating that the subject “Presents an imminent danger to others as a result of mental illness” was not checked.

Authorities have not said how long Cho was hospitalized.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

jrogalsky@dcexaminer.com