Virginia Tech gunman denied suicidal, homicidal thoughts

Published August 19, 2009 4:00am ET



Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho denied harboring suicidal or homicidal thoughts during meetings with school counselors in late 2005, less than two years before killing 32 students and faculty at the Blacksburg campus, newly released records show.

The university on Wednesday posted online Cho’s missing records from the Cook Counseling Center, which contain details of his interviews with counselors before and after he was admitted to Carilion St. Albans psychiatric hospital for saying he wanted to kill himself.

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