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Cop Killed in VA Tech Shooting a Vet
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New details on the shooting
- Duration 1:26
- Date Dec 9, 2011
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-- yes some -- details coming in on a story that broke yesterday afternoon in a shooting.
At Virginia Tech we are now learning that the shooter was not a student.
But there is no word yet on the motive for opening fire we're waiting for news conference from the police at the top of the hour we'll get -- that they say that the suspect.
Walked up to a campus police officer in a parking lot and shot him.
Sparking a huge manhunt police confirmed that the suspect got himself with the same -- That he used to kill the officer the incident rattled the campus still recovering.
From the largest mass shooting of its kind in the United States back in 2007 who can forget.
That awful awful day in last night students held a candlelight vigil.
First thing I thought was I had a -- -- my mom works in high school -- it to create people's I certainly -- -- somber but it I guess.
They're -- to -- to getting kind of proud of the Hokies had to hold.
-- -- don't know at this point if there is any link between the shooter.
And the officer who was 39 year old -- house.
He was army veteran husband and father of five children that he has left behind sadly.
After this violence he joined the Virginia Tech force just months after.
That 2007 shooting.
-- possible tragic human life that's shooting you know that reopens all these tender wounds now from 2007.