Virginia’s governor, Timothy M. Kaine, has named the remaining two members of a panel that will review the Virginia Tech tragedy, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The other six members of the team, which will be led by W. Gerald Massengill, a retired superintendent of the Virginia State Police, were named on Thursday.
The latest appointees are Diane M. Strickland, a former Circuit Court judge in Roanoke County who recently helped lead a two-year study on issues related to involuntary mental commitment, and Carroll Ann Ellis, director of the Fairfax County Police Department’s Victim Services Section and a faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College. Ms. Ellis also teaches at the FBI’s National Academy and the National Victim Assistance Academy.
In other news related to the investigation of last Monday’s tragedy, an assistant state medical examiner told the Associated Press that the gunman had fired enough shots to wound his 32 victims more than 100 times before killing himself with a bullet to his head. The official, William Massello, said pathologists would test blood samples from the gunman to determine if he was on drugs at the time of the rampage. Autopsies of the gunman and the victims have been completed, but the examiner was unsure when the results would be released. —Charles Huckabee




