In addition, the panel faulted Virginia Tech administrators in particular for failing to take immediate action after the first two deaths of Emily J. The panel also criticized misinterpretations of privacy laws and gaps in Virginia's mental health system and gun laws.
In the report, the panel criticized the failure of the educators and mental health professionals who came into contact with Cho during his college years to notice his deteriorating condition and help him. The panel released its final report in August 2007, devoting more than 20 pages to detailing Cho's troubled history. In the aftermath of the shootings, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine convened a panel consisting of various officials and experts to investigate and examine the response and handling of issues related to the shootings. During Cho's last two years at Virginia Tech, several instances of his abnormal behavior, as well as plays and other writings he submitted containing references to violence, caused concern among teachers and classmates. After his diagnosis, he began receiving treatment and continued to receive therapy and special education support until his junior year of high school. In middle school, he was diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder with selective mutism, as well as major depressive disorder. At the time of the shooting, Cho had the legal status of resident alien. permanent resident as a South Korean national. īorn in South Korea, Cho was eight years old when he immigrated to the United States with his family. A senior-level undergraduate student at the university, Cho died by suicide after police breached the doors of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall which Cho had locked with heavy chains, where most of the shooting had taken place. This killing is the deadliest school shooting in US history, and was at the time the deadliest one-man shooting rampage in modern US history and deadliest mass shooting in US history. Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Seung-Hui Cho ( Korean: 조승희, properly Cho Seung-hui Janu– April 16, 2007) was a Korean-American mass murderer responsible for the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
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