Two Dead in Shooting on Virginia Tech Campus
8th December 2011, The Lede
Matt Maranowski, who describes himself on social media sites as a Virginia Tech student, posted this video said to be of the shooting scene. The images matched images from the scene.
Two people, including a police officer, were dead after a shooting on Thursday afternoon on the campus of Virginia Tech, the scene of a 2007 massacre in which 33 people were killed, university officials said.
The shooting took place around noon, after a campus police officer made what was described as a routine traffic stop in a parking lot near McComas Hall, a gym and sports building, said Mark Owczarski, director of news and information.
During the stop, a gunman walked up to the officer and shot and killed him, officials said during a news conference on Thursday. The gunman was not the person involved in the traffic stop.
For several tense hours, police searched for the gunman. The university announced about 4:30 p.m. that there was “no longer an active threat” on campus.
Earlier in the day, witnesses reported seeing the gunman running toward a different parking lot, called the Cage, near Duck Pond Drive. At that parking lot, a man was found, also dead of a gunshot wound. Officials would not comment on whether the second person found dead was the man who shot the police officer.
Police did not identify the officer but said he was a four-year veteran of the Virginia Tech police department. State police were still investigating whether he had been specifically targeted.
“The second is an unknown male subject who was found deceased in a parking lot near the Duck Pond,” the university said in a statement. “A weapon has been recovered at the location of the second individual. Reports of any additional shots being fired or any additional victims are unfounded.”
Stunned Students
A Previous Shooting Rampage at the same School in 2007
The killer, Video below, was apparently bullied very savagely, he later shot himself.
Final Words Of Virginia Tech Massacre Killer Cho Seung-Hui
May they all Rest in Peace.
Something is very very wrong with all those sadistic kids in the US, that bully others so much, that their victims either kill themselves, or eventually go crazy and go on the rampage like this for revenge, then sometimes kill themselves.
Very sad indeed, especially for all the families concerned
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