Virginia Tech Shootings

Virginia Tech offers guidance to Fort Hood

lauren.king — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:56:27 -0500

By Tonia Moxley

BLACKSBURG

Military officials dealing with Thursday's Fort Hood shootings have called on Virginia Tech for guidance in coping with the trauma that follows such violence.

It's been more than two years since Tech English major Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 students and faculty and injured dozens more in the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Ex-director of Va. Tech counseling center won't be charged

Mark.Edelen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:32:19 -0400

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. The former director of Virginia Tech's counseling center will not face criminal charges for taking the Virginia Tech gunman's mental health records.

Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Brad Finch said Friday that Robert Miller did not appear to have violated any law when he took Seung-Hui Cho's records home.

Tech gunman's care typical for overworked campus centers, experts say

Jane.Elizabeth — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:57:42 -0400

ROANOKE, Va. As counselor Sherry Lynch Conrad bid goodbye to Seung-Hui Cho after a 45-minute session, she urged him to return in January. He never made an appointment.

Va. Tech families: Cho's problems should have been detected

Cindy.Clayton — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:03:31 -0400

By Sue Lindsey ROANOKE University counselors should have discussed and addressed the mental health troubles the Virginia Tech gunman told them he was having before the massacre, victims' relatives said.

The criticism comes after records revealed three therapists within three weeks indicated they saw no serious signs of violence in the student.

Health records: Va. Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts

Jane.Elizabeth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:55 -0400

By Sue Lindsey ROANOKE Recently discovered records show the Virginia Tech gunman denied homicidal thoughts to a school counselor nearly a year and half before the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history.

The missing files for Seung-Hui Cho were released today, nearly five weeks they were discovered at the home of the former director of the university's counseling center.

Ex-Tech official who kept Cho's files had been fired

Cindy.Clayton — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:11:58 -0400

By Brigid Schulte and Rosalind S. Helderman The director of the counseling center at Virginia Tech, who said he unintentionally took home the mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho two years before Cho went on a shooting rampage that killed 32 people, had been fired from his position after an independent review of the office .

Ex-Va. Tech official: Gunman's file contains forms

david.putney — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:25:46 -0400

ROANOKE A former counseling director says the mental health records of Virginia Tech's student gunman that he took inadvertently contained triage forms, a Post-it note and an e-mail. Dr. Robert C. Miller said in a court document the records for Seung-Hui Cho (sung wee joh) and several other Cook Counseling Center clients were in a manila folder in his office.

Va. Tech, Pittsburgh gunmen used same online gun shop

Jane.Elizabeth — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:46:23 -0400

By JOE MANDAK and BEN DOBBIN

PITTSBURGH The man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh-area health club bought gun equipment from TGSCOM Inc. of Green Bay, Wis., the same online dealer that sold a gun to Seung-Hui Cho just before the Virginia Tech massacre.

Kaine: Some Va. Tech kin don't want new panel

Cindy.Clayton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:40:03 -0400

By Bob Lewis RICHMOND Governor Tim Kaine says not all of the relatives of the 32 people slain at Virginia Tech want the panel that reviewed the massacre reconvened.

Kaine said Thursday on his monthly radio show on Richmond's WRVA radio that volunteer panel members who want to get involved again may, but he can't order them back to work.

Families of Virginia Tech victims want state to reopen inquiry

Cindy.Clayton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:56:48 -0400

ROANOKE Families of the Virginia Tech shooting victims asked Gov. Tim Kaine today to reopen a state commission's investigation of the 2007 mass killings in which 32 people died.

A group of parents of many of those killed and injured in the rampage by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho issued a statement urging Kaine to reopen the review because of inaccuracies in the report.