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Virginia Tech Shooting: Shots Fired At Virginia Tech, At Least 2 Dead
First Posted: 12/ 8/11 01:03 PM ET Updated: 12/ 8/11 06:56 PM ET


A police officer and one other person were killed on the Virginia Tech campus on Thursday, according to university officials. The incident took place on the same campus where the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history occurred back in 2007.

In a statement posted on its website, the school reported that shortly after noon, a Virginia Tech police officer made a traffic stop. The officer was then shot and killed, according to witnesses.

During a press conference Thursday afternoon, authorities said the gunman was not believed to have been involved in the traffic stop.

The shooter fled on foot toward another parking lot, where a second body was later recovered.

At the press conference, school officials and law enforcement authorities declined to identify the second person found dead as the gunman. However a law enforcement source speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the second body is believed to be the remains of the suspect......................>>>>.................>>>>....................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/virginia-tech-shooting_n_1136934.html

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Ross Truett Ashley, Virginia Tech Shooter, Was 22-Year-Old Radford University Student
First Posted: 12/ 9/11 06:36 PM ET Updated: 12/ 9/11 06:47 PM ET
By BOB LEWIS and ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON, The Associated Press:

Police are identifying the Virginia Tech gunman as a 22-year-old college student at nearby Radford University.

Police said Friday that Ross Truett Ashley, of Radford, was responsible for killing a Virginia Tech police officer Thursday, triggering a campus-wide lockdown for thousands of students.

Ashley killed himself after shooting the officer.

Police also say Ashley stole a car on Wednesday from a real estate office in Radford, which is about 15 miles from Virginia Tech.

The shooting shook up the campus, the scene of the nation's worst mass slaying in recent memory.

The man who killed a Virginia Tech police officer walked up to the patrolman he did not know and fired, then took off for the campus greenhouses, ditching his pullover, wool cap and backpack. He made his way to a nearby parking lot and when a deputy spotted him, he took his own life, leaving fresh questions on a campus still coping with the nation's worst mass slaying in recent memory......................>>>>.........................>>>>..........................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....udent_n_1140247.html

Parents send their kids to school and college....they don't think they will never see them again...

VT was in chaos but well under control this time....as a med student told me...

It was scary but we all prayed and it turned out well.....Sadly the campus policeman was shot and died....God bless him and his

family.....tragic...