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August 2007
- Shooting Report Levels No Blame at Virginia Tech
  
  CNN | 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 the incident. The spree was the worst school massacre in US history. More »
- Carbon Monoxide Fells VA Tech Students
  
  Associated Press | Aug 20, 07 12:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Five female roommates were seriously poisoned yesterday after a carbon monoxide leak in off-campus housing at Virginia Tech sickened 19 people. Two of the women remained in critical condition and three were listed as serious.The accident was yet another blow for the school which yesterday dedicated a memorial to 32 victims killed by a campus gunman in April. More »
- Va. Tech Shooter May Have Practiced
  
  Richmond Times-Dispatch | 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; another witness saw chains on the door that same day. More »
June 2007
- Va. Tech Probe Points to Privacy Laws
  
  Washington Post | 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 concern could improve record-sharing, a high-level federal report says. More »
May 2007
- Pastor: Killer Possessed by 'Demonic Power'
  
  Washington Post | 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 young man from "demonic power." More »
April 2007
- Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole
  
  Richmond Times-Dispatch | 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 puts Virginia in compliance with federal law. More »
- Police Search for Answers at VT
  
  Washington Post | 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 »
- Cho's Family: "He Has Made The World Weep. We Are Living A Nightmare"
  
  CNN | Apr 20, 07 9:29 PM CDT
  
  (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 his "unspeakable actions," CNN reported. More »
- Cho Diagnosed as Autistic, Say Relatives
  
  Daily Mirror (UK) | 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 showed any feelings or emotions." More »
- Newsrooms Pull Cho Video
  
  Associated Press | 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 »
- Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record
  
  CNN | Apr 19, 07 8:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun sales only to those who have been involuntarily committed. More »
- Gunman Mails Manifesto
  
  MSNBC | Apr 19, 07 6:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui took a time out from his murder spree to mail a macabre package of videos, photographs and a delusional diatribe to NBC News. The images, posted between the dorm shootings and the carnage at Norris Hall, show him in combat gear, wielding the guns used in the massacre. More »
- Police Talked to Cho in 2005
  
  Washington Post | Apr 18, 07 1:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Police questioned Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui twice in 2005, after two women accused him of accused making unwanted contact, the Virginia Tech police department said this morning. The same semester, poetry professor Nikki Giovanni had him removed from her class. But since Cho made no direct threats, the police could not legally take action against him, they say. More »
- Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence
  
  News Bloggers | Apr 18, 07 9:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with revenge. More »
- VT Student Was at Columbine
  
  US News and World Report | Apr 18, 07 7:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A veteran of the Columbine massacre has now relived that high school tragedy as a graduate student at Virginia Tech. Regina Rohde, a master's candidate in the department of fisheries and science, was a freshman at Columbine in 1999. "They're strikingly similar," Rohde says of the shootings. More »