i_am_the_swammi Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Police Officer Shot, Virginia Tech On LockdownUniversity: Second Potential Victim In Parking Lot Updated: Thursday, 08 Dec 2011, 1:31 PM EST Published : Thursday, 08 Dec 2011, 1:09 PM EST BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech University says a police officer is shot and there may be a potential second victim on the school's Blacksburg campus. "A police officer has been shot. A potential second victim is reported at the Cage lot. Stay indoors. Secure in place," a university Twitter account announced. The school's website said earlier that there was a reported shooting in the Cassell Coliseum parking lot, and it identified a possible suspect as being a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon brim and a maroon hoodie. He was said to be on foot toward McComas Hall, a recreational sports facility on campus. The "cage lot," where the potential second victim was said to be, is a fenced-in residential parking lot just off Duck Pond Drive. Anyone with information is being urged to call 911. "This is an active campus alert in Blacksburg. Everyone should seek shelter or stay where you are. Blacksburg Transit service is suspended until the alert is lifted," the website stated around 1 p.m. The first word of a shooting was broadcast over the university's Twitter account around 12:37 p.m. man, this place seems like a magnet....praying everyone is OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Following the Twitter feed...more shots fired near one of the residential halls CollegiateTimes Collegiate TimesStudents are reporting shots near Torgersen Hall 8 minutes ago https://twitter.com/#!/CollegiateTimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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i_am_the_swammi Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Officer that was shot has reportedly died from his injuries. One other person has died as well, per recent Tweets Another Titter feed to follow is that of a student locked in a campus building and hiding: Recent TweetsKelsey Starr kjostarr Kelsey Starr Police scanner reports multiple shots outside Johnson 57 seconds ago Kelsey Starr kjostarr Kelsey Starr Two confirmed dead 1 minute ago Kelsey Starr kjostarr Kelsey Starr In case anyone is curious, I'm locked inside a room right next to performing arts. Honestly, never been this scared 5 minutes ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Collegiate TimesCollegiateTimes Collegiate Times There are multiple reports of shots and police activity, but most pressing appears to be in Squires now Collegiate Times CollegiateTimes Collegiate Times Students being moved to secure room is Squires Student Center. The Collegiate Times has been evacuated from its office, still has Internet 52 seconds ago Collegiate Times CollegiateTimes Collegiate Times The shooter is at large 2 minutes ago Collegiate Times CollegiateTimes Collegiate Times VT releases report: Suspect killed police officer in Coliseum Lot, then fled toward Cage. Second victim was killed in parking lot. 3 minutes ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Sopapilla is going on with this taco... i hate people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 man, really hope those are the only two casualties to come from this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddahj Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Wow, just wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Sketchy details as to whether the shooter is caught, dead, still at large, wounded, etc. If anyone hears details, please post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Sketchy details as to whether the shooter is caught, dead, still at large, wounded, etc. If anyone hears details, please post! Hopefully dead. He doesn't deserve X-Mas after taking it away from those families. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 burritoed up, severely, burritoed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Twitter feed reporting that many senior VT Campus police, and many senior local police, are in DC today for hearings on the 2007 shootings. God help them if this was planned so that there would be fewer police to respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustOfBeenDrunk Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 This crap sucks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just plain Stupid ,,, Sopapilla is wrong with people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delusions of grandeur Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Wow, will be keeping them in my prayers, and hoping they stop this guy before any more lives are lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 listening to the scanner radio app for android. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustOfBeenDrunk Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Virginia Tech shootings: Authorities believe gunman is second victim, alert to be lifted soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 did they catch this guy yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricrelish Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 did they catch this guy yet? Read the post above your's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrTed46 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Read the post above your's. Oh I missed that post...wow. He shoots a cop then himself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustOfBeenDrunk Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Oh I missed that post...wow. He shoots a cop then himself No he and the cop shoot each other & both die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 No he and the cop shoot each other & both die crazy. I only saw a little bit on the scroll. Hopefully the cop got him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameltosis Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 crazy. I only saw a little bit on the scroll. Hopefully the cop got him. From what I have read the cop and the 2nd "victim" were shot with the same gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBalata Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Va. Tech gunman changed clothes after shooting cop By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON Associated Press The Associated Press Friday, December 9, 2011 12:49 PM EST BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The gunman who walked up to a police car and shot a Virginia Tech officer to death fled to nearby university greenhouses, where he changed clothes. Despite his attempt to throw off a police manhunt, a patrolling sheriff's deputy spotted him and the gunman killed himself. State police on Friday laid out their most detailed account so far of the shooting that locked down the campus for several hours. It was the first shooting at the school since it was the scene of the deadliest gun rampage in modern U.S. history that claimed 33 lives in 2007. Investigators still don't know of any connections between the gunman, whom they haven't named, and university police officer Deriek W. Crouse, 39. The trained firearms and defense instructor with a specialty in crisis intervention had pulled over a driver for a traffic violation when he was killed. There was no link between the driver and the gunman. Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said investigators are confident they know the shooter's identity, but they are waiting for final confirmation from a medical examiner before they release it. They know he wasn't a student, but they don't why he targeted Crouse. "That's very much the fundamental part of the investigation right now," Geller said at a news conference. It's likely the shooter was the same man who stole a rental car at gunpoint earlier Thursday in Radford, about 15 miles from Blacksburg, Geller said. Crouse had pulled over a car driven by a student and was stopped on a campus parking lot with that car in front of his cruiser, Geller said. The driver has been very helpful to investigators, she said. Crouse was sitting in his cruiser when the gunman walked up and shot him. Geller declined to say if the officer was wearing body armor or where exactly he was shot. He was not able to return fire, she said. Authorities have in-car video from Crouse's cruiser that shows a man with a handgun at the officer's car at the time of the shooting. The gunman fled on foot and went to nearby greenhouses, where investigators say he changed out of a pullover and wool cap and left them behind with his backpack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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