Va. Tech President Defends His Actions
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RICHMOND, Va. — With anguished parents demanding his firing, Virginia Tech’s president bristled at suggestions yesterday that he bears responsibility for the bloodbath on the campus, calling it a crime “unprecedented in its cunning and murderous results.”
At a news conference where he was grilled about an independent panel’s conclusion that lives could have been saved had the school warned the campus sooner that a killer was on the loose, Charles Steger suggested there may have been nothing anyone could have done to stop the rampage by gunman Seung-Hui Cho that left 33 people dead.
“No plausible scenario was made for how this horror could have been prevented once he began that morning,” Mr. Steger said.
Asked whether he would have done anything differently that day, Mr. Steger said no.
