BLACKSBURG, Va.
Virginia Tech’s internal review of the campus massacre that left 33 people dead recommended Wednesday more monitoring of troubled students, classroom locks and other security measures.
The panel made no assessment of the actions school staff took April 16, when more than two hours elapsed between the time student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed two students in a dormitory and the time he killed 30 other people and himself in a classroom building.
University President Dr. Charles Steger named committees to look at counseling services, security and communication following the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
A panel appointed by Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is investigating the handling of the shootings as well as Cho’s background, and its report is due out next week.
At a news conference, Steger said the investigation of the university’s actions should be done by an outside panel, not the school, and that he had recommended that the governor form the panel that will issue its report next week. He also again defended the university’s decision not to lock down buildings after the first two shootings.
