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2 shot dead on Virginia Tech campus

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2 shot dead on Virginia Tech campus
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Two people, including a campus police officer, were shot dead Thursday at Virginia Tech, where 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a university spokesman said.. . .

The officer was shot during a traffic stop, Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski told NBC News.

"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, Owczarski said.

A Virginia Tech alert described the suspected shooter as a white male ...

The shooting came the same day as Virginia Tech was appealing a $55,000 fine by the U.S. Education Department in connection with the university's response to the 2007 rampage.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/virginia-tech




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