The mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho, who on April 16, 2007, massacred 32 people before killing himself, have been found. They had been missing for more than two years and were discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, along with the records of some other students.
The information was shared with victims' families via a memo from the university to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's chief legal counsel. According to the memo, Robert Miller, the former director, had moved the records into his home more than a year before the killings.
Mike Pohle, whose son was killed in the shootings, said:
"The words that come to mind are cover-up, collusion, obstruction. I'm spinning. Who knows what could be in those records, but this is just potentially more information that says: Virginia Tech, you failed to do your job."
It's unclear, however, that Va. Tech can be implicated in the missing records, as they were taken home by Miller himself, and well before the shootings. The incident does, however, point to lax security at the clinic.
Robert T. Hall, an attorney involved in the "gross negligence" lawsuit filed by the families of slain students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde, said:
"Why would he (Miller) take any student mental health records to his home at any time, and why that student? It certainly is a question of whether there is more to the Seung-Hui Cho mental health history than we've been told."
The families of Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde were the only ones who did not participate in a settlement paid last year by the state of Virginia.
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