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Virginia Tech Shooting. Yes. Again.
Gosling
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We have another shooting at Virginia Tech, separate from the 2007 shooting. This is happening the same day as the university attempts to appeal a $55,000 fine relating to their response to the shooting in 2007.
Official statement from Virginia Tech, as per this report from WDBJ:
The suspect is described as a white male, gray sweat pants, gray hat w/neon green brim, maroon hoodie and backpack.
We'll keep the OP deliberately scarce for now. The suspect, as of this writing, is still at large.
Official statement from Virginia Tech, as per this report from WDBJ:
Virginia Tech wrote:"Shortly after 12 p.m. today, a Virginia Tech Police officer stopped a vehicle on campus during a routine traffic stop in the Coliseum parking lot near McComas Hall
During the traffic stop. the officer was shot and killed. There were witnesses to this shooting.
Witnesses reported to police the shooter fled on foot heading toward the Cage, a parking lot near Duck Pond Drive. At that parking lot, a second person was found. That person is also deceased.
Several law enforcement agencies have responded to assist. Virginia State police has been requested to take lead in the investigation
Status of the shooter is unknown. The campus community should continue to shelter in place and visitors should not come to campus."
The suspect is described as a white male, gray sweat pants, gray hat w/neon green brim, maroon hoodie and backpack.
We'll keep the OP deliberately scarce for now. The suspect, as of this writing, is still at large.
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There are probably people on this board that attend VT.
Stay safe people.
Edit: if you're in the area and want to do something, now's as good a time as any to donate blood / plasma to the local blood bank.
According to VT: "There are no new substantiated reports of suspicious or ciminial activity. Status of the shooter remains unknown."
Yeah, that's what the description sounds like to me.
As long as the shooter isn't captured stay alert, you never know what he might be planning.
Best not to have a repeat of that.
Oh, I certainly agree.
There were numerous failures that day regarding the way (or lack of a way) students were alerted.
Since then however, the university has been borderline annoying (in a good way) to the extent in which they keep students informed and secured in situations like this.
The media has still taken it upon themselves in several stories since (kidnapped VT campers, kidnapped VT girl from a concert in Charlottesville, guy with a model rocket that was presumed to be a gun) to assert that the university's shortcomings were responsible for each of these incidents... Nevermind that two of them happened 25+ miles from campus.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/virginia-tech-shooting-dead-police-officer.html
Suspect shoots police officer in a traffic stop in a parking lot on Washington Street. Witnesses report suspect fleeing on foot down Washington Street -- meaning he had to abandon his vehicle. At the very next parking lot about three blocks down Washington Street in the direction the suspect was observed fleeing, a deceased gunshot victim is found.
It's good to be cautious, but my guess is he's in the second victim's car trying to put as much distance between himself and Blacksburg right now.
Yeah, to be honest it would be pretty unlikely to find anyone other than students in the reported parking lot. Younger students, no less.
Unconfirmed it was another firefight, this time with the suspect being injured (E: or killed).
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Yes, that's probably an accurate guess, but intuition doesn't always map onto reality.
Maybe we could go a few days without people blowing other people away?
That would be nice.
That's the exit on I-81 for Blacksburg.
Edit: Read 81, not 95... Curiously, Exit 118 is the exit for Blacksburg on I-81, though.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/virginia-tech
Possibly unrelated.
o.O
...Uh, okay.
So who killed the shooter, then? Unless they shot themselves, I guess.
Interesting. Like I said, it's good to be cautious, but if that's what happened then I'm not sure why that would have taken four hours to verify. The two locations were about 700 feet apart and there were supposedly multiple witnesses at the primary location who should have been able to identify the clothing on the suspect at the secondary location.
Well, a maroon hoodie and gray sweatpants are pretty much standard attire for males in December there.
Yeah the bit from your penultimate post about "Subject approached officer and fired weapon turnleft scene" had me scratching my head. An officer approaches the subject of a traffic stop, not the other way around.
This is going to take a few days to figure out.