Breaking: Another shooting at Virginia Tech

[novasteve]

a cop has been shot and killed.

 

[waltky]

Va. Tech locks down after officer, 1 other killed...

Police: Va. Tech shooter not person pulled over
8 Dec.`11 – A gunman walked into a parking lot and killed a Virginia Tech police officer who was conducting a traffic stop on campus Thursday, state police said.

Sgt. Robert Carpentieri said it appeared that the shooter was not in the car that had been pulled over. The sergeant said another officer later spotted a second person in a different parking lot who was alive at the time. That person, a white man, later died of a gunshot wound. Police would not say during a Thursday afternoon news conference whether the second dead person was the gunman who killed the officer. However, a law enforcement official who had knowledge of the case and spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the gunman was believed to be dead.

Virginia Tech officials said on the school's website that a weapon was recovered near the second body found on campus. School officials also said there was no longer an active threat Thursday afternoon and that normal activities could resume. Investigators were interviewing the person who was pulled over Thursday. Carpentieri also said he couldn't say exactly how many people were involved. The officer had served on the campus police force for four years. State police were still investigating whether he had been specifically targeted. The officer's shooting prompted a lockdown that lasted for hours.

As police hunted for the killer, the school applied the lessons learned nearly five years ago, warning students and faculty members via email and text message to stay indoors. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The shooting Thursday sent a shudder through campus, where students preparing for exams were suddenly told to hunker down. Heavily armed officers walked around campus as caravans of SWAT vehicles and other police cars with emergency lights flashing patrolled nearby.

"A lot of people, especially toward the beginning were scared," said Jared Brumfield, a 19-year-old freshman from Culpeper, Va., who was locked in the Squires Student Center since around 1:30 p.m. "A lot of people are loosening up now. I guess we're just waiting it out, waiting for it to be over." The university sent updates about every 30 minutes, regardless of whether they had any new information, school spokesman Mark Owczarski said.

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[waltky]

Slain Va. Tech officer identified as Army veteran...

Slain Va. Tech officer identified as father, vet
9 Dec.`11 – A gunman killed a Virginia Tech police officer Thursday at a campus parking lot and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in an attack that shook the university nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

The shooting took place on the same day Virginia Tech officials were in Washington, fighting a government fine over their alleged mishandling of the 2007 bloodbath where 33 people were killed. Before it became clear that the gunman in Thursday's attack was dead, the school applied the lessons learned during the last tragedy, locking down the campus and using a high-tech alert system to warn students and faculty members to stay indoors. "In light of the turmoil and trauma and the tragedy suffered by this campus by guns, I can only say words don't describe our feelings and they're elusive at this point in time," university president Charles Steger said. "Our hearts are broken again for the family of our police officer."

The officer, identified late Thursday as 39-year-old Deriek W. Crouse, was killed after pulling a driver over in a traffic stop. The gunman — who was not involved in the traffic stop — walked into the parking lot and ambushed the officer. Police said they did not know what the motive was and were still investigating whether the officer was specifically targeted. The university said Crouse was an Army veteran and married father of five who joined the campus police force about six months after the 2007 massacre. He previously worked at a jail and for a sheriff's department.

Shortly after, police found in a parking lot a man with a gunshot wound and a gun nearby. "The second victim is observed on the officer's in-car video camera system with a weapon at the time of the initial encounter with the officer," state police Major Rick Jenkins said. Authorities refused to say whether Crouse was able to defend himself or fire back at his assailant. Police late Thursday had not released the name of the gunman or other details. But they released a timeline of events.

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Officer killed in Virginia Tech shooting had 5 kids
8 Dec.`11 - The Virginia Tech police officer who was killed on campus during a traffic stop was identified as four-year member of the force who was married and had five children and stepchildren.

The Virginia Tech News website said Deriek W. Crouse, 39, of Christiansburg, was survived by his wife, five children and step-children, and his mother and brother. Funeral arrangements were pending.

The site said Crouse joined the campus Police Department on Oct. 27, 2007, and served in the patrol division. He had been a member of the force's Emergency Response Team since February, and in 2008 he received an award for his commitment to the department's efforts against driving under the influence.

He was an Army veteran who had worked at the New River Valley Jail and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department. The gunman thought to have killed Crouse was found dead on campus with a gunshot wound.

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[Avatar4321]

Its sad. I hope that the family recieves justice and mercy

 

[waltky]

Too soon again, too soon again...

Shooting at Virginia Tech reopens wounds from 2007
8 Dec.`11 – Virginia Tech, site of the nation's deadliest school shooting less than five years ago, shuddered through a shocking reminder Thursday when deadly gunfire again tore through the university campus.

"Tragedy has again struck Virginia Tech," school President Charles Steger said. "Our hearts are broken again." Two people were dead, one of them a campus police officer, after a gunman opened fire while the officer was conducting a traffic stop on campus, university officials said. After about four terrifying hours in which scores of law-enforcement agents scoured the campus for the shooter, the university announced the threat was over and that a second body was found. Sgt. Robert Carpentieri, spokesman for the State Police, was unable to say it was the shooter but suggested as much.

The shooting recalled the terror that gripped this campus in the southwestern Virginia mountains in 2007 when a student gunman killed 33 people, including himself. The latest shooting came while university officials were in Washington appealing a fine for the length of time officials took to notify students of the first two deaths in 2007. Frederick Cook, 26, who escaped the 2007 gunman by jumping out a second-floor window, said the news Thursday reopened painful memories. "I know for myself and others involved in the 2007 shooting, we all talk about a heightened sense of emotions about these things. You feel these events," said Cook, who runs a business near campus.

Sophomore Abby Lorenz, 19, of Millington, Md., said students felt safe, but "it almost makes you feel for the people that were here before. It makes it a lot more real." This time, a new emergency alert system, using texts, e-mails and other methods quickly spread word of the threat. Freshman Krystan Marshall said she was studying in her dorm room, around 12:35 p.m. when she got an e-mail alerting her to the shooting. "From their response today, I do not know what else the university would be asked to do," Cook said.

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At Va. Tech: 'We're just sad that this happened again'
8 Dec.`11 – With finals about to begin, Courtney Lofgren, a Virginia Tech senior, had just settled into the library for a marathon study session Thursday when her Twitter feed went crazy with news of a shooting on campus. Within moments, the Virginia Tech alert system sounded.

As school officials and police locked down the library, shock set in. "When we heard that there were actual deaths, we started to realize that this was actually happening," Lofgren said. "We're just sad that this happened again at Tech." Nearly five years after a Virginia Tech senior killed 32 people in deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, the campus plunged again into panic as a man killed a police officer and then fled the scene. For four tense hours, 16,000 students, faculty and staff wrapping up the final days of the semester believed a gunman was on the loose and had killed two people. In the minutes after the 12:30 p.m. shooting, Virginia Tech officials sent a flurry of e-mail messages, texts and tweets urging students and employees to stay inside locked rooms and away from campus. The first alert, sent by the police department, reached student about seven minutes after the shooting, Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said.

The police officer, a four-year veteran of the campus police force, stopped a car at 12:15 p.m. near the Cassell Coliseum parking lot, Deputy Police Chief Gene Deisinger said. About 15 minutes later, a man walked up to the officer and shot him, Deisinger said. Witnesses who called 911 said the man ran toward a nearby parking lot, about a quarter-mile away. Police responding to the call saw a man meeting the description. When they approached him, they found him dead, Deisinger said. Police also found a weapon in the area. Police would not confirm the dead man is the gunman.

Lucy Tamberrino, 20, a junior psychology and chemistry major from Reston, Va., saw emergency workers doing CPR on a police officer who was on the ground. "The cops reacted really fast," Tamberrino said. Within five minutes, police had surrounded the area and blocked off roads, she said. Police "with huge guns" searched the area, she said. Students in the library, Squires Student Center and dorms on the reading day before the start of final exams hunkered down behind locked doors, glued to the news, as the alerts went out and sirens wailed. Classes ended Wednesday.

Freshmen Sonia Amin and Brittany Walker were in a cafe when Walker got the emergency text message. "Before we could even get to the library it was locked down," Walker said. Amin said heavily armed police officers rounded up about 100 students and escorted them to a sheltered area called The Bridge. Police lifted the alert at 4:30 p.m., but anxious students seemed reluctant to venture out. Freshman Carolina Boucher and 20 other classmates waited out the manhunt for four hours in a room at the Jamerson Athletic Building. "Now that we're allowed to leave, we want to," Boucher said. "But at least in the room I'm in, nobody has walked out." The university rescheduled Friday's final exams for Saturday and has counselors on call, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said. "It is very traumatic," Steger said. "This brings back difficult memories of the past."

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[grunt11b]

It would be better put as "A shooting near Virginia tech". It was not in any way shape or form a campus shooting, but the liberal media needed it to sound like a repeat offender for a bashing against the second amendment. The only problem is, only you left wing retards see it for how your cronie media presents it, th rest of us know better, fucken retards.
The shooting happened off campus, but near campus so the lefty media made it out to be something it is not because they knew if they invoked the virginia tech shooting of years past it would hit a nerve in the american populous, sorry homey, not working.

 

[editec]

It would be better put as "A shooting near Virginia tech". It was not in any way shape or form a campus shooting, but the liberal media needed it to sound like a repeat offender for a bashing against the second amendment. The only problem is, only you left wing retards see it for how your cronie media presents it, th rest of us know better, fucken retards.
The shooting happened off campus, but near campus so the lefty media made it out to be something it is not because they knew if they invoked the virginia tech shooting of years past it would hit a nerve in the american populous, sorry homey, not working.

We are informed that the victim was an ON DUTY VA tech campus cop, are we not?

That makes it a VA TECH tragedy.

 

[Douger]

Fuck the cop. Who was the other guy that died ?

 

[spectrumc01]

It would be better put as "A shooting near Virginia tech". It was not in any way shape or form a campus shooting, but the liberal media needed it to sound like a repeat offender for a bashing against the second amendment. The only problem is, only you left wing retards see it for how your cronie media presents it, th rest of us know better, fucken retards.
The shooting happened off campus, but near campus so the lefty media made it out to be something it is not because they knew if they invoked the virginia tech shooting of years past it would hit a nerve in the american populous, sorry homey, not working.

We are informed that the victim was an ON DUTY VA tech campus cop, are we not?

That makes it a VA TECH tragedy.

Was he also a Christian? It could be that it is a religious hate crime. A Christian tradgedy.
Was he Black or White ? It could be that it was a racial hate crime. A racial tradgedy.
Was he straight or gay? It could be that it was a homosexual hate crime. A sexual orientation tradgedy.
It can be any kind of tradgedy FOX news, CNN, Bill O'Riley, or MSNBC tells us it is.

 

[spectrumc01]

Fuck the cop. Who was the other guy that died ?

Now, now...haven't you realized yet it is all about the cop and not the other guy. It won't be about him until they can somehow tie it to muslim terrorism.

 

[spectrumc01]

In all seriousness now. I just now watched it on the local news. To say this is another school shooting is ridiculous, and untrue. This was a personal thing. The guy walked right up to the cop and shot him dead than walk away without firing again until he killed himself.

There will be an investigation, computers will be found and searched, and a reason will be given for the shooting. Virginia Tech will blow this all out of proportion, with the help of every tv news station, and talking head. Com'on Nancy Grace