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Friday, July 24, 2009

Virginia Gov. Kaine special commission never interviewed Va. Tech counselor who removed Cho records

"(Virginia Governor Tim) Kaine's special commission on the shootings did not interview Miller, W. Gerald Massengill, the panel's chairman and a retired state police superintendent, said Wednesday."..." Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced Wednesday that the records, which neither the state police nor a state investigative commission had been able to locate,

University officials received the records last Thursday but did not inform state police until Monday and did not provide copies of the records to state police until Tuesday,

  • five days after they were recovered, according to Corinne Geller, a state police spokeswoman....

Kaine (D) did not identify the Virginia Tech employee who had the records, but a memo written by a university lawyer identified him as Robert Miller.

  • the year before
  • the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history.

On April 16, 2007, Cho killed 32 students and teachers and wounded many more before taking his own life.

  • Miller took Cho's records and those of "several other students" when
  • according to the memo from the Virginia Tech lawyer, Mary Beth Nash, to Kaine's office....
Lucinda Roy, a Virginia Tech English professor who encouraged Cho to get counseling, said the late and mysterious reappearance of the records adds to concern that the university has been more concerned with preserving its reputation than with providing the public with a thorough account of how Cho's case was handled. ... Due to her safe, puzzled passivity, 32 people were murdered.
  • (Continuing, Washington Post): "there was not a huge push to try to find them."

Because of Cho's odd behavior, his stalking of a fellow student and his threats to kill himself,

  • A judge found him to be a danger to himself

and released him on condition that he receive mental health counseling.

The long-missing records, Owczarski said, are now on file there."

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