Thursday, April 19, 2007

Virginia governor names massacre panel

Virginia
Governor Tim Kaine is creating a panel to look into the shootings at Virginia Tech this past Monday. Two members of this panel will include former Virginia police chief Gerald Massengill and former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. Also a 20 year FBI veteran, a psychologist and a senior state education official will be on the panel. Based on the amount of questions by the media towards school officials about reports of stalking and mental health problems, the governor decided that he would have a panel review the massacre. They are going to look through all the evidence that they have in order to see if there really was anything that Virginia Tech school officials could have done differently in order to prevent this terrible incident. According to a university doctor, the choice to have the gunman admitted to a mental health facility was taken by a district court. Also because of privacy laws, some of the information might not be allowed to be shared about the gunman's visit to mental health facilities.

1 comment:

Wesley Warren said...

They should not only review the evidence but as well update there system of security and alerting people. Also the man that was shooting didn't he kill himself or the police shot him?