Remember the international commercial that made facebook a household name? If you don’t I’ll give you a refresher. It was the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 dead.
The shooter was Korean born Seung-Hui Cho.
Who was his therapist though?
Well that’s a tough question, because at one point his records were missing before miraculously resurfacing. One can only wonder what kind of information was lost or altered during the time of absence.
What is known though is that in 2005 a judge concluded that Cho “presents an imminent danger” to himself and others. The same judge ignored his conclusions, refusing to send Cho to a mental health institution. A therapist named Roy Crouse influenced this decision. Crouse worked at Access, a Blacksburg mental-health clinic at the time, saying there was “sufficient cause to believe that he’s mentally ill, but he does not represent an imminent danger to himself or others.” Oddly enough after leaving Access, Crouse went took a counseling job… (drum roll)… Virginia Tech!
And the counselors at Virginia Tech, well they seemed to be just as blind to the obvious signs of mental health problems plaguing Cho as Mr. Crouse. At the time, the Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech was run by one Robert Miller. More on him later.
In 2005 after being accused of stalking two female Virginia Students, Police and Virginia tech became concerned Cho was showing signs of mental instability and suicidal thoughts according to police and faculty. He was then sent to the psych ward at Carilion St. Albans hospital in Christiansburg
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Presumably this is where he got his clean bill of health from Robert Crouse. On December 14th Cho was released from the Carilion St. Albans with an order from the judge to receive involuntary outpatient treatment at Cook. The Cook Counseling center claims thy never got the message, even though, time has proven that at 4:32 p.m. the same day (Dec 14th) Cook Center director, Robert Miller forwarded an email he had received about Cho at 11 a.m. in the morning.
As for Robert Miller he was fired in December 2005 (the same month he was given info on Cho), and upon clearing out his desk accidently took Cho’s as well as five other students medical records home with him, which accounts for why the records were missing.
Can’t make this shit up guys.
https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/intermountain-complaints-continue/Content?oid=937424
https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/intermountain-complaints-continue/Content?oid=937424
Virginia Tech links:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3052278&page=1
https://nypost.com/2007/04/19/cho-presents-an-imminent-danger-judge-wrote-in-05/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081902380_2.html?noredirect=on&sid=ST2009081902390
https://abcnews.go.com/US/seung-hui-chos-mental-health-records-released/story?id=8278195
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shootings-facebook-idUSN1742895920070418
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2544701/networking/virginia-tech-shooting-shows-benefits–pitfalls-of-social-networking-sites.html