The family of the student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech two months ago has turned over his mental-health records to a gubernatorial commission investigating the country’s worst campus shooting, the Associated Press reported today.

The panel had been stymied in its efforts to obtain the medical records of the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, because of privacy laws, hindering its investigation of the tragedy, the events that led up to it, and the response. The panel’s chairman, W. Gerald Massengill, had said he would go to court to obtain the files, if necessary.

Virginia Tech officials have said that the requirements of privacy laws prevented them from exchanging information about Mr. Cho, who was a Virginia Tech senior at the time of the shooting. In December 2005 Mr. Cho was referred to an off-campus mental-health facility, evaluated, and ordered to receive outpatient care. But, without the records, it is not clear if he ever received treatment.

Mr. Massengill said he had received the records on Wednesday but had not yet reviewed them, the AP reported. Virginia Tech officials had been negotiating with Mr. Cho’s family since May to turn over the records. —Karin Fischer