Va. Tech Report Faults Lack of Campus Alert

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VIRGINIA TECH OFFICIALS should have issued a campus-wide alert that a gunman was somewhere on the Blacksburg campus earlier on the day this past spring that student Seung Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage killing 32 people. That's one of the many conclusions an eight-member review panel came to, as detailed in a highly anticipated report on the Tech tragedy and response, released late last night.

Still, as The Post's Sari Horwitz and Tim Craig write, "the report reaches no conclusions about what many people are wondering: What Cho's motives were for the rampage April 16 and what triggered him."

Additionally, the report said that Virginia Tech counseling services failed to properly treat Cho for preexisting mental health issues. It also issued this broader criticism: "Virginia's mental health laws are flawed and services for mental health users are inadequate."

You can read the report for yourself here and get a summary of key findings here.

» "Va. Tech Criticized In Massacre Probe" [WaPo]
» "Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel" [Gov. Tim Kaine]
» "Virginia Tech Review Panel: Summary of Key Findings" [Gov. Tim Kaine]