RICHMOND, Va.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said that he is troubled that Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho’s violent class essays, including one with a narrative similar to the massacre he carried out, were not widely shared with law enforcement and university officials.
Kaine said the issue is “a significant feature” in the report released Thursday by the panel he appointed to review the April 16 shootings.
“I think there’s a lot of instances where information was out there or different people had information where it needed to be put together,” Kaine said.
Kaine said it was hard to understand why more was not done about a student who once showed a fascination with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting spree and considered the two students who committed it martyrs.
“Look, I’m troubled that a student who had talked about Columbine at an earlier point in his life, that that information was unknown to anybody on the Tech campus,” Kaine told a group of reporters.
Kaine said he read about the writings in an earlier draft of the report.
