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Va. Tech releases Cho’s medical records
Virginia Tech has posted the counseling records of Seung-Hui Cho online, the student who killed 32 people on campus and himself in April 2007.
Tech announced today that the estate executor, as well as the Cho family, has agreed to the schools request to make public the records from Tech’s Cook Counseling Center.
Va. Tech releases Cho’s medical records
Virginia Tech has posted the counseling records of Seung-Hui Cho online, the student who killed 32 people on campus and himself in April 2007.
Tech announced today that the estate executor, as well as the Cho family, has agreed to the schools request to make public the records from Tech’s Cook Counseling Center.
They include an evaluation on Dec. 13, 2005, at the Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Radford. “He says it’s all a misunderstanding,” reads one entry under the “patient history” section. “The patient denies suicidal ideation. However, he is very nonverbal and did not discuss feelings.”
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Police investigate bike-pedaling robber
Police are investigating a series of robberies in the area of a South Richmond apartment complex, all carried out by a gun-toting male riding a bicycle.
The latest occurred about 2 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of Treehaven Drive at the Southwood apartments, just south of Hull Street Road.
Capt. Scott Booth said a man was parking his car when a suspect rode up on a bicycle while carrying a silver handgun. The robber took cash and the victim’s iPod before pedaling away on his bike.
As has been the case with previous bike robberies, no shots were fired and the victim was not injured, Booth said.
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Second man enters pleas in attacks
A second defendant was convicted today for his role in the fatal beating of one man and for beating another man nearly to death in Richmond.
Jose C. Bello-Garcia, 25, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal March 29 beating of Baudilio Lopez-Andres, 52, in an abandoned house along Jefferson Davis Highway, and to malicious wounding for the beating of another man the same day behind the nearby Golden Food Market.
Yesterday, the other defendant in the case, Jose Raul Gaitan, 27, entered an Alford plea to a charge of second-degree murder, meaning he does not admit guilt but acknowledges there is enough evidence to convict him. He pleaded guilty to malicious wounding.
Each man faces up to 60 years in prison when he is sentenced Oct. 29.
Brief by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
