The former director of a Virginia Tech University counseling center accidentally took home the mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho a year before Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty at the Blacksburg campus.
The attorney for Dr. Robert Miller told the Associated Press that his client packed Cho’s records alongside personal documents when he left the job in February 2006.
Miller’s attorney, Ed McNelis, said Miller found the records last week as he searched for material that could be relevant to a civil suit filed by the families of two of the victims, and returned material to the school the next morning.
“Dr. Miller deeply regrets that his inadvertence has caused so much distress for the families of the victims as well as his former colleagues at Virginia Tech,” McNelis said. – William C. Flook
