BLACKSBURG, Va. — A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.
Virginia Tech used alert system to update campus after police officer shot
Thursday, December 8, 2011 | 9:29 p.m. CST;
updated 9:48 p.m. CST, Thursday, December 8, 2011
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