Report: Missteps by Virginia Tech Before During and After the 2007 Rampage by Seung-Hui Cho
December 4, 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Some Virginia Tech administrators warned their families and ordered the president’s office locked well before the rest of the campus was notified a gunman was on the loose, according to a revised state report, released Friday, on the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Virginia’s governor called some of the administrators’ actions “inexcusable,” and some victims’ relatives who have been demanding the resignation of President Charles Steger ever since the 2007 massacre that left 33 people dead reacted bitterly to the findings.
The long-awaited panel report, released late today, concluded that Virginia Tech officials could have saved lives by warning students earlier that two students had been shot and that the killer had not been caught. It also said that a judge ordered Cho to be treated for mental health issues but that he never received it.
Newspapers and wire service front-paged summaries of the revised report this afternoon.
- The Virginia Tech Report: ‘The Toll Would Have Been Less,’ Washington Post
- Virginia Tech Criticized for Actions in shooting, The New York Times
- VT Report: Staff Warned Families First, The Associated Press
- Official Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, Office of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine
- Previously Unreleased Documents About VT Shooter Seung-hui Cho Released by Student Newspaper, Epicanthus.
