Since April 16, when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho gunneddown 27 fellow students and 5 faculty members and injured 24other people before taking his own life, some disturbing factsabout his mental health history have emerged. At various pointsduring Cho's college career, Virginia Tech police officers,professors, and students recognized that he was mentally troubled,but although state psychiatric evaluators once briefly committedhim to a psychiatric hospital, it is unclear whether anyonefrom the school monitored him after his release. These discoverieshave left investigators wondering whether the killings couldhave been prevented — and college . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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