The U.S. Department of Education has ruled that Virginia Tech broke a federal law by waiting too long to warn students about a campus gunman during the April 2007 massacre at the university.
The department issued its final report on the incident Thursday. It said Virginia Tech violated portions of the Clery Act, which governs the information colleges must disclose about campus crime.
The department found that Virginia Tech failed to issue a timely warning after two students were shot in a campus dormitory on April 16, 2007. The school also “did not follow its own policy for the issuance of timely warnings as published in its annual campus security reports,” the report says.
Gunman Seung-Hui Cho went on to kill another 30 people before turning the gun on himself in the deadliest shooting rampage on a college campus in U.S. history.
