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.

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