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Byline: Kiran Krishnamurthy
Apr. 20--CENTREVILLE -- When Michael Layne heard Cho Seung-Hui's videotaped diatribe against the wealthy with their Mercedes and gold necklaces, he thought the gunman's rant must be aimed at former classmates at Westfield High School.
"We had all that. It's just the way it was," said Layne, who graduated with Cho from the Fairfax County school in 2003.
"Fairfax is a rich county. You'd see 16-year-old girls just get their licenses driving up in a brand-spankin'-new Corvette."
Layne, 23, who recalled trying to befriend the quiet teen, said yesterday that he recognizes the rant against the rich in Cho's multimedia manifesto, which the gunman apparently mailed to NBC in a lull between Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech.
Layne, who played in a band, remembers Cho telling him he liked a song that Layne strummed on guitar in the hallway between classes one day at their Centreville high school.
"He came up and said, 'Hey that's a good song. I really like…