Families of victims in the April 2007 Virginia Tech massacre called on Gov. Tim Kaine Tuesday to reopen a state review of the worst mass shooting in the nation’s modern history.
Parents of those killed or injured in the April 16 shooting said the Virginia Tech review panel should revisit a report that “contains grave errors, misinformation and glaring omissions.”
The state commission released the in-depth report and more than 70 recommendations four months after the attack, in which mentally ill gunman Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty and injured many others before taking his own life.
Among the reasons for the push is the recent discovery of Cho’s mental health records from the school’s counseling center, which the center’s former director, Dr. Robert Miller, said he inadvertently took home a year before the shooting and did not discover until last week.
“We still suffer emotional pain dealing with the impenetrable layers of bureaucracy in our simple quest for answers,” the families’ statement said. “An accurate, complete and thorough accounting of what happened before, during and after April 16th, 2007, is the legacy we seek on behalf of those who died and those who survived.”
Kaine said on WTOP radio’s monthly “Ask the Governor” program that reconvening the panel, which was made up of volunteers, would be problematic.
