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Va. Tech gunman changed clothes after shooting cop

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 12:29pm

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- 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.

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Police officials examine the body of a police officer shot to death in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Blacksburg, Va. A gunman killed a Virginia Tech police officer Thursday at a campus parking lot and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the school nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

Gunman in police killing wasn't Va. Tech student

Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:34am

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The Virginia Tech police officer who was shot dead in his parked cruiser was a trained firearms and defense instructor with a specialty in crisis intervention. His death leaves investigators puzzling over how and why a gunman walked up to the patrol car during a traffic stop, killed the officer and wound up dead himself in a nearby parking lot.

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Va. Tech gunman believed to be dead

Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 3:52pm

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A law enforcement official says the gunman who fled after killing a police officer on campus is believed to be dead.

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Virginia Tech campers walk into Dietrick Hall with a police escort after a lockdown of the campus was lifted at the school in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Va. Tech lifts campus alert after report of gunman

Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 3:00pm

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia Tech was locked down for several hours Thursday after three children attending a summer camp said they saw a man holding what looked like a gun on the campus where a 2007 massacre left 33 people dead.

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Va. Tech report details new fumbles in shooting

Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 4, 2009 - 2:22pm

RICHMOND, Va. -- Some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families and the president's office was locked down well before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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