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October 18, 2009

Dec. hearing set in Tech civil suits

By THE ROANOKE TIMES

Oral arguments in two $10 million civil lawsuits brought by families of two women killed in the Virginia Tech massacre are scheduled for Dec. 14. The date...

August 22, 2009

Ex-Tech official who took Cho files won’t be charged

The taking of Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho’s mental-health records by a former university official does not appear to violate any criminal...

August 21, 2009

Families say files contradict Va. Tech

Long-missing mental-health records of Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho challenge the university’s claim that it handled him appropriately at its...

August 20, 2009

Opinions differed on Cho’s dangerousness

The last time the Virginia Tech mental-health center apparently saw Seung-Hui Cho was the day after a magistrate ordered him detained as a potential danger...

July 23, 2009

Discovery of Cho’s records brings more questions

By DAVID RESS AND JIM NOLAN TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS

It was the prospect of talking to a lawyer—not the efforts of Virginia police officers investigating the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history—that...

Headlines from April 16-17, 2007
• Local leaders express condolences
• Deadliest campus shooting
• HISTORY: Other college shootings
• PARENTS REACT: Fear, reassurance and grief
• STUDENTS REACT: On campus, chaos and confusion
• Va. Tech alumni never felt unsafe
• Saturation coverage on TV
• What is a traumatic event?
• Kaine returning from Asia
• Will 'Virginia Tech' soon be a tragic buzzword?

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Admission to Tech, 2003

• Application essay

Fall semester, 2005

Troubles in the dorm

• R.A. - Dorm Director emails about Cho
• Report of knives

Removed from Nikki Giovanni's class, Oct. 2005

• Giovanni asks Cho to leave her class
• Cho paper prompting her request.
• Police alerted
• Dean, Associate Dean of liberal arts informed, Part 5, p 17
• Top officials advised
• Dean of Students, no threat in Cho's behavior
• Judicial affairs director offers to advise Cho
• Administrative report on Cho's actions in Giovanni class
 
• Cho acknowledges he is in trouble
• Notes: Cho-Roy meeting
• Cho explains himself
• Roy to tutor Cho
• Police called off
• Roy concerned about Cho
• Dean, associate dean approve Roy's handling
• Counseling center head praises Roy
• Cho's poems
• Professor's notes on Cho
• Comments on Cho's poems for independent study
• Roy continues to worry

Female students harassed, Nov., Dec, 2005

• Police report, Nov. 27 incident
• Dorm R.A. follow-up
• Police report, Dec 12 incident

Mental health hospitalization, Dec. 2005

• Police interview
• Screener finds probable cause of mental illness
• Temporary Detention Order
• Judge finds he is mentally ill and must get treatment
• Report on hospitalization to Tech officials, Part 3, pp 807, 810
• Counseling center follow-up
• R.A. checks up on him

Spring Semester, 2006

• Professor's concern
• Violent writings

Fall semester, 2006

• English professor: Cho needs help
• Cho walks out of class
 
• Cho's stories for her
• Her comment he handles violence in interesting ways
• Cho's grades, 2003-6

Spring semester, 2007

• Violent writing

April 16, 2007

• West Ambler Johnston shootings, police logs & report
• 8:01 email: there is an emergency
• Bank pickups canceled
• Police briefing on bomb threats canceled
• Policy Group meeting notes
• 8:45; email: gunman loose but don't disclose
• Email, reminder to not disclose
• 8:52; Tech president's office ordered locked down
• Blacksburg schools lock down; heard of shooting on police radio
• Trash pickup canceled
• Counseling center staff asked not to disclose shooting
• Health and Safety office is locked down
• 9:25. Police captain advises no lockdown but says gunman loose
• 9:26. The first advisory
• Earlier draft of alert
• Safety official says gunman is loose
• Police log, dispatch to Norris Hall
• Norris Hall office lockdown
• Official Tech warning to campus about gunman

4/17/08
• Commemoration
• VT Remembers

4/16/08
• Vigil photos

4/23/07
• Bells toll to honor victims
• Tech students return to campus
• Virginia Tech moves forward

4/22/07
• Weekend events at Virginia Tech

4/20/07
• Virginia's Day of Mourning
• Vigils across Virginia

4/19/07
• On campus and around Blacksburg

4/17/07
• The morning after
• Convocation at Lane Stadium
• Blacksburg in mourning
• Vigils in Richmond and Blacksburg

4/16/07
• The day of the shootings

· Courage Under Fire - A look at Liviu Librescu, one of the professors killed on April 16, 2007
· "Forever Changed," by The Season

4/13/08
• Charles Steger
No way to stop a gunman willing to die
A year later, students feel secure

4/16/07
• Heather Harris, VT student:
Part 1 | Part 2
• Veronica Gentry, VT student
• Josh Bell, VT student: Part 1 | Part 2
• Katharine Kamer, VT student

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