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Police try to uncover what led to Virginia Tech Shooting
Officer Deriek Crouse was fatally shot dead during a December 8, 2011, traffic stop on the Virginia Tech campus. Investigators believe the gunman who killed a Virginia Tech policeman acted alone and that he changed clothes after fleeing the scene, then the gunman killed himself with his hand gun as soon as another officer spotted him. Thursday's shooting differed from the April 16, 2007, mass killing when student Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage, but it still served as a test of the new policies the school has implemented since that tragedy. Officer Deriek Crouse was fatally shot during a December 8, 2011, traffic stop on the Virginia Tech campus. The incident began about 12:15 p.m., when Crouse, a four-year Virginia Tech police veteran, pulled over someone during a routine traffic stop in the Cassell Coliseum parking lot near McComas Hall. The Cassell Coliseum at Virginia Tech houses athletic facilities. McComas Hall houses exercise facilities. Shortly before 12:30 p.m., police received their first call from a witness who said he'd seen the suspect -- not the driver of the car that had been pulled over -- approach the officer's vehicle and open fire. The suspect ran from the area. About a quarter-mile from the first shooting, a man that appeared to be the suspect was found dead from a gunshot wound, police said. According to all three of the news websites CNN, MSNBC & Fox News the gunman was not a student at the university. It seems like I got the same information from CNN and MSNBC saying an officer spotted a suspicious looking man and when that officer drove around to approach him that gunman was on the floor from shooting himself.
It seems like the same thing happened at the same university back in 2007 there was a shooting spree from a student at Virginia Tech which killed 30 people. They are linking this case to that which is similar, but the only thing is that this shooting did not...