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[font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"] Tech Report: Cho couldn't be stopped
[/font][/font][font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]By BILL MCKELWAY[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"] [/font][/font][font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Media General News Service[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Monday, August 20, 2007[/font][/font]
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CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A report on the Virginia Tech shooting tragedy due this week will conclude that it was essentially unpreventable once the rampage had gotten underway April 16.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Retired State Police Superintendent W. Gerald Massengill told reporters here today that gunman Seung-Hui Cho could not immediately have been stopped.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Speaking to Cho's longtime mental health issues and law enforcement's difficulty in identifying the shooter, Massengill said that preventing his attack might mean creating a world where "nobody could really live and learn."
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]The alternative would be living in a world that would intrude too deeply into daily lives, he said. But he also acknowledged that Cho "fell through the cracks" repeatedly during the course of his life when issues about his mental health were raised and addressed.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Massengill is leading final deliberations of an expert panel that was appointed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine in the days following the shootings, which took 32 lives and wounded dozens more. Cho also killed himself.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Massengill said today that a report will be released publicly on Friday, although he could not promise it would be the final version.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]He said the report will have "the detail and clarity that will answer most, if not all, the questions" about Cho and his background.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]But Massengill stressed that Cho's relative anonymity -- "he was just another student" -- made it highly unlikely that Cho could have been stopped once he had entered a Virginia Tech dormitory early April 16 and dispatched his first two victims.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]"No one knew who he was," Massengill said.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]"If Cho was to have been stopped, it would have to have been before those first two hours."
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[font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"] Tech Report: Cho couldn't be stopped
[/font][/font][font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]By BILL MCKELWAY[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"] [/font][/font][font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Media General News Service[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Monday, August 20, 2007[/font][/font]
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CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A report on the Virginia Tech shooting tragedy due this week will conclude that it was essentially unpreventable once the rampage had gotten underway April 16.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Retired State Police Superintendent W. Gerald Massengill told reporters here today that gunman Seung-Hui Cho could not immediately have been stopped.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Speaking to Cho's longtime mental health issues and law enforcement's difficulty in identifying the shooter, Massengill said that preventing his attack might mean creating a world where "nobody could really live and learn."
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]The alternative would be living in a world that would intrude too deeply into daily lives, he said. But he also acknowledged that Cho "fell through the cracks" repeatedly during the course of his life when issues about his mental health were raised and addressed.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Massengill is leading final deliberations of an expert panel that was appointed by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine in the days following the shootings, which took 32 lives and wounded dozens more. Cho also killed himself.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]Massengill said today that a report will be released publicly on Friday, although he could not promise it would be the final version.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]He said the report will have "the detail and clarity that will answer most, if not all, the questions" about Cho and his background.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]But Massengill stressed that Cho's relative anonymity -- "he was just another student" -- made it highly unlikely that Cho could have been stopped once he had entered a Virginia Tech dormitory early April 16 and dispatched his first two victims.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]"No one knew who he was," Massengill said.
[/font][/font] [font="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"][font="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"]"If Cho was to have been stopped, it would have to have been before those first two hours."
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