World & Nation
The three-story beige town house on Truitt Farm Drive stands as the Cho family’s symbol of middle-class success, precisely what they were searching for when they left a dank basement apartment and a life of struggle in South Korea 15 years ago.
April 22, 2007
Opinion
Some states fail to update a national background check database, giving mentally ill buyers like Seung-hui Cho access to firearms.
April 23, 2007
Files taken by mistake, lawyer says
July 24, 2009
Television
After all the over-disclosing about the wrenching decision to air the “beyond the grave” video that Seung-hui Cho sent them, NBC did something late Wednesday that demonstrated where the network’s sentiments truly lie: They aired, on MSNBC, a canned true-crime docudrama called “Iron Hand, Dark Heart,” a special not about Cho but about James Oliver Huberty, whose 1984 shooting rampage at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro left 21 dead.
April 20, 2007
The bloodbath lasted nine minutes -- enough time for Seung-hui Cho to unleash 170 rounds from his two pistols.
April 26, 2007
The governor on Monday closed the loophole in state law that allowed the Virginia Tech gunman to buy weapons despite a court ruling that he was a threat and needed psychiatric counseling.
May 1, 2007
Virginia Tech gunman’s mental records found
July 23, 2009
Re “Report weaves dark tale of gunman’s past,” Aug. 31 The panel appointed by Virginia Gov.
Sept. 4, 2007
The Virginia Tech building where a student killed 30 people and himself was reopened for limited daytime use of engineering labs, although access was restricted because of refurbishing work.
June 19, 2007
The building where a gunman killed 30 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg will be reopened for offices and laboratories, but it won’t be used for classrooms, the university announced.
June 6, 2007