On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech's website said:

We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech ...
-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist

It is with the deepest sense of grief and sorrow that we ask you to keep Bryan, his wife Renee, and son Andrew in your thoughts and prayers as they mourn the loss of Austin, a freshman at Virginia Tech.

The family has requested that donations be made to

Appalachia Service Project
Attn:  Carolyn Bailey
4523 Bristol Highway
Johnson City, TN 37601

View a 15-minute interview with Renee and Bryan in which they talk about their daughter.