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...Flinchum and other campus officials refused to give more information about the length of Cho's stay at the mental health facility, St. Albans, or about his diagnosis or treatment. The local judge's temporary detention order, filed in court on December 13, 2005, declared that Cho was mentally ill and either a threat to himself or others, or so incapable of caring for himself that involuntary evaluation was necessary. This is legal boilerplate language supporting detaining Cho in the psychiatric hospital, although a state police spokesman said today that technically, Cho went to St. Albans voluntarily. Court records show...
...Typically it would be illegal for someone who had been found incompetent or mentally incapacitated to buy a gun in Virginia, but the magistrate's order apparently did not constitute a formal legal ruling on Cho's mental state. For that reason, his name was not entered into the state's background-check database; authorities said today his gun purchases were fully legal...
...Police still have not determined whether Cho had a real or imagined connection to the female victim in the first of the day's two shooting incidents. Emily Hilscher. Neither of the women he allegedly stalked was among his victims...
...Harvey Barker, head of the community mental-health agency called by campus police, told TIME that when his agency performed the psychiatric evaluation of Cho before he was committed to St. Albans, "We did not make an recommendation [as to whether he was fit to remain on campus or in school]. That was not our role...
...Late this afternoon, authorities said Cho sent a package including photographs, videos and writings to NBC in New York on the day of the shootings. The network said a time stamp on the material indicated that it was mailed within the two-hour window of time between the first and second shooting incidents, according to AP. NBC, which described the writings as a lengthy diatribe, said the package was immediately turned over to authorities...