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Update: VT Shooting Records
posted 11:26 pm Thu July 24, 2008 - Blacksburg, VA
reporter: Matt Dreyer
posted by: Webteam
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Virginia Tech now plans to release some more documents from the day Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on campus. The documents are from an emergency meeting among senior leaders on April 16th.
But not everything will be released, and that raises questions if the university is abiding by a settlement reached with many families of victims. We talked to Tech's spokesman about where the archive stands. The University has compiled nearly 20,000 pages of documents pertaining to the April 16th shootings and we’re told there are still many pages left to be added.
Larry Hincker says lawyers are sifting through thousands of faxes, emails and other notes and documents to see what is safe to add to an electronic archive, that was required as part of the settlement. He says no one will hear the 911 calls. Victims' medical and academic records will not be included because of privacy laws. And while Cho's medical records will be kept from the archive, his academic records could be added.
Larry Hincker, VT Spokesman - "The question isn't whether or not we want to see Cho's records, the question is whether or not anybody's records are subject to release by the custodian of those records whether that be a hospital or a university or insurance company or whomever and so that's what lawyers are struggling with here. We want to make as much of it available as possible."
Our calls to the lawyers representing the families were not returned. Hincker says the families will get a chance to view the completed archive before it’s released to the public.
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