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...suicidal."(One of Cho's suite mates said last night on CNN that he told police that Cho IM'd him, "I might as well kill myself now.") Again, officers met with Cho "at length," Flinchum said, and asked him to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health service. "Based on that interaction with the counselor, a temporary detention order was obtained and Cho was taken to a mental health facility ," Flinchum said...
...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...
...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...
...magistrate ordered Cho to undergo an evaluation at Carilion St. Albans, a private psychiatric hospital. The magistrate signed the order after an initial evaluation found probable cause that Cho was a danger to himself or others as a result of mental illness...