The U.S. Department of Education says Virginia Tech broke federal law by waiting too long to warn students about a gunman during the April 2007 massacre at the university.
The department issued its final report on the incident Thursday. It said Virginia Tech violated the Clery Act, which governs the information colleges must disclose about campus crime. The university could face fines or lose federal aid.
The said Virginia Tech didn’t issue a timely warning after two students were shot in a dormitory on April 16, 2007. The school also did not follow its own policy for issuing warnings, the report says.
Gunman Seung-Hui Cho went on to kill another 30 people before killing himself in the deadliest shooting rampage on a college campus in U.S. history. – Emily Babay
