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I agree that it was his own psdonym, maybe a pen name, he was a writer. Ishmael is an outcast, Ax sounds tough and can be a violent weapon. It's hard to say what was going through that kid's mind.
I also think I may have some clues as to why Cho Seung-Hui committed these tragic killings.
I think I've traced it back to a literary connection to a book by a woman from Virginia named Emma Southworth, written in the 1800s.
This book is about a troubled, ill-fated young man from the hills of Virginia named Ishmael. He was an illegitimate child, and his mother died at childbirth. Because of it, he is later referred to as "Nobody's Son"... as Cho became "Question Mark".
This character Ishmael is, in many ways, a pre-cursor to Holden Caulfield in "Catcher in the Rye." Mark David Chapman, the killer of John Lennon, already has a claim to that book, so I believe Cho, being an English major, went a little more obscure for his inspiration.
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