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Parents Sue Virginia Tech After Son's Suicide

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Dissent

Ryan Abbott reports:

The parents of a Virginia Tech student who committed suicide say the school failed to follow protocol to protect students after the April 2007 mass killing there. His parents say Daniel Kim, 21, told friends he was “ashamed of being Asian” and was afraid he resembled Seung-Hui Cho, who shot 27 students to death and then turned the gun on himself.

In the complaint in Fairfax County Court, Kim’s parents say one of their son’s friends sent an email to the Virginia Tech Student Health Center stating that Kim had bought a gun and had attempted suicide more than once.

The parents say the email bounced around between Dean of Students Tom Brown, Assistant Dean of Students Sharrika David, Phyllis Smith and Christopher Flynn of the Cook Counseling Center and the Virginia Tech Police Department.

Kim’s parents say the school’s protocol required it to have him speak directly with a school counselor or psychologist and consult with them on the matter, but school officials failed to do so.

The Virginia Tech police department, they say, had local police check on Kim, who denied knowing the person who sent the email and “gave no indications that he was going to harm himself and did not appear to be troubled or act in a suspicious manner.”

Read more on Courthouse News. A copy of the lawsuit (pdf) can be found here.

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