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Seung-Hui Cho stories: 31 news summaries

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(AP) - 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 US history. Seung-Hui Cho denied the thoughts in a session with counselor Sherry Lynch Conrad on Dec. 14, 2005. On April 16, 2007,... More »

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Pa. Gym, Va. Tech Shooters Shopped on Same Website

Site rep: This proves people need to protect themselves

Aug 7, 09 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pennsylvania health club shooter and the Virginia Tech killer purchased gun equipment from the same website, WPXI Pittsburgh reports. George Sodini bought accessories from TGSCOM, which sold a gun to Seung-Hui Cho. “We deal with police and government agencies as customers,” said a rep for the firm,... More »

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Seung-Hui Cho • murder • Pennsylvania • website • Virginia Tech shootings • firearms • shooting • gym • guns • health club • George Sodini

Found: Missing Mental Health Records of Va. Tech Shooter

Files had been removed from university clinic illegally

Jul 22, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The mental health records of the gunman behind the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre have been found in the home of a former director of the university’s clinic, reports the AP. Seung-Hui Cho’s records were illegally taken from the clinic more than a year before the attack, says a... More »

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Judge OKs
$11M Settlement for Va. Tech Families

Quicker action could've saved lives, suit said

Jun 18, 08 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Virginia judge yesterday approved an $11 million settlement with 42 families of those killed or injured in last year's Virginia Tech shootings, the Washington Post reports. The families sued after a panel concluded that lives might have been saved if the university contacted students immediately after the first shootings.... More »

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Virginia Tech Families,
State Reach $11M Deal

Lawyers quiet on details

Apr 10, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Victims’ families in the Virginia Tech shootings have settled with the state for $11 million in a deal to prevent future lawsuits, lawyers said today. The lawyers, who represented 21 families, are mum on details pending finalization, reports the Roanoke Times. At least 20 families had earlier warned they might... More »

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$100K Virginia Tech Offer Slammed as 'Insult' to Victims

Proposed settlement aims to head off lawsuits over university massacre

Mar 25, 08 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The state of Virginia is offering $100,000 to each family of the 32 students and teachers killed by a lone gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre, the Virginian-Pilot reports. If accepted, the settlement would prevent families from suing the state for negligence. One attorney called the offer "for... More »

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Va. Tech, NIU Gun Dealer:
Arm Students

Looser rules will deter school shooters, says man who sold to 2

Mar 5, 08 1:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Eric Thompson sold guns to both the Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech shooters, but he’s not apologizing for it. “I’m a businessman,” he tells the Los Angeles Times. “It’s a product.” But Thompson thinks he knows how to stop such violence: allow... More »

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gun control • Seung-Hui Cho • gun sales • school shooting • Northern Illinois University • Virginia Tech shootings • Steven Kazmierczak • Eric Thompson • Glock • guns

New Fed Gun Law Inspired by Virginia Tech Massacre

Congress makes it harder for mentally ill to buy guns

Dec 20, 07 3:15 AM CST
(Newser) - New gun control legislation designed to keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill was passed by the Senate yesterday. The rare event of congressional action on gun control—and even rarer bipartisan agreement—was triggered by the Virginia Tech massacre last April. The bill, which strengthens background... More »

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Virginia Tech • Seung-Hui Cho • Patrick Leahy • John Dingell • Carolyn McCarthy • National Rifle Association • 1968 Gun Control Act • National Instant Criminal Background Check

Virginia Tech Massacre 'Could Have Been Stopped'

Official report says college should have warned students of shootings

Aug 30, 07 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A state investigation into the Virginia Tech massacre, in which 33 students and teachers were killed, concluded that college authorities could have saved lives by acting more quickly to warn students after the first shootings. The report, released last night after the New York Times obtained a copy,  also... More »

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Va. Tech Never Knew of Shooter's Disorder

Cho was exposed to ridicule for condition

Aug 28, 07 5:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fairfax County school officials knew that the outcast student who shot dead 32 people at Virginia Tech had selective mutism, a serious social anxiety disorder that prevented him from speaking in many situations. But federal privacy laws blocked disclosure of that information to Virginia Tech, reports the Washington Post.  More »

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Shooting Report Levels No Blame at Virginia Tech

School's response deemed okay, some upgrades recommended

Aug 22, 07 7:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech's response to the April shootings that left 33 dead got a free pass in an internal review today, CNN reports. Although the university should improve its communications systems and means of monitoring troubled students, the report says, it found no fault with how school officials and police handled... More »

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Va. Tech Shooter May Have Practiced

Investigators reveal new details
of deadly April rampage

Aug 10, 07 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Virginia Tech killer may have rehearsed his rampage 2 days before the massacre of 32 people on April 16, police investigators said today. One witness reported spotted a suspicious-looking hooded male near doors inside the academic building where the shootings took place on April 14, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports;... More »

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Va. Tech Probe Points to Privacy Laws

Muddled regs impede information flow; House OKs gun-control bill

Jun 14, 07 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A tangle of privacy laws helps prevent officials from sharing vital info about mentally ill individuals who may be dangerous, making it possible for them to buy handguns—and setting the stage for incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre. Greater awareness of the leeway officials have when safety is a... More »

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Pastor: Killer Possessed by 'Demonic Power'

Cho's mother sought spiritual healing as
son deteriorated

May 6, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mother of Seung Hui Cho sought spiritual healing for her angry, troubled son, the Washington Post reports in an examination of the Virginia Tech shooter's mental state. The head pastor of the One Mind Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, said his church was approached last summer to help deliver the... More »

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Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole

Executive order would have barred V.T.  shooter from buying weapon

Apr 30, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia governor Tim Kaine has issued an executive order closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to purchase a gun, the AP reports. Effective immediately, Virginians diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill will be added to a national database that gun-store owners use for background checks. The order... More »

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Police Search for Answers at VT

Apr 26, 07 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Post reports on the ongoing probe into the Virginia Tech shootings, with police reconstructing details of gunman Cho Seung-Hui's movements and searching for motives. Questions include whether Emily Hilscher, his first victim, was a random target, and the possibility that someone else mailed Cho's manifesto to NBC News. More »

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Virginia May Close Gun Loophole

Governor's order would give more mental health info to dealers

Apr 25, 07 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is considering closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui to buy guns despite his dangerous and conspicuous mental illness. A judge ruled Cho mentally ill in 2005, but didn't commit him, so his records were not in the data base dealers consult. More »

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(Newser) - The secluded family of the Virginia Tech gunman broke its silence today with a pained statement from his sister Sun-Kyung Cho, a Princeton grad who works as a contractor for the State Department. The family feels "hopeless, helpless and lost," she wrote, and is "deeply sorry" for... More »

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Cho Diagnosed as Autistic,
Say Relatives

Uncle in Seoul says parents didn't have money for treatment

Apr 20, 07 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui's relatives in Seoul, tracked down by the  London Mirror, report that Cho had been diagnosed as autistic after arriving in the U.S. His grandfather's sister, Kim Yang-Sun, said Cho caused his mother "a lot of problems"  as a child and "never... More »

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Newsrooms Pull Cho Video

Apr 20, 07 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News vowed to stop playing the disturbed, invective-laden video made by Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho after a backlash from viewers—especially the victims' families—against its endless airing yesterday. Other networks said they would  “severely limit” the tape. More »

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