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| Police identify Virginia Tech shoot |
| Police identify Virginia Tech shooter
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-December-2011
2:43:33 AM |
| Police on Friday identified the gunman who killed a police officer at Virginia Tech, scene of a deadly mass shooting in 2007, and then killed himself as a 22-year-old man attending a nearby college.
Virginia State Police said in a statement that the man responsible for Thursday's shooting, Ross Truett Ashley, was a part-time student at Radford University.
The crime at the 31,000-student Virginia Tech revived memories of the April 2007 bloodbath in which 32 people were shot dead by a student who then killed himself -- the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in US history.
State police said there was "no prior connection" between Ashley and campus police officer Deriek Crouse, who was slain when the gunman walked up to his unmarked patrol car during a "routine traffic stop" involving a third person.
The 39-year-old Crouse -- a US army veteran and father of five children and step-children -- "was not able to return fire or fire his weapon," state police spokeswoman Corrine Geller earlier told reporters.
Ashley has been connected to the theft at gunpoint of a white 2011 Mercedes SUV on Wednesday, the state police statement said. That vehicle was found Thursday on the Virginia Tech campus.
Geller said that after killing Crouse, the gunman then went to a nearby greenhouse and changed his clothes, leaving a backpack containing a pullover top and wool cap behind.
About 30 minutes later, a local county deputy sheriff spotted a man alone and "acting a bit strangely" in a fenced-in campus parking lot known as the Cage, about a half-mile (one kilometer) away, Geller said.
When the deputy sheriff caught up to him, the individual was deceased from "what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound," she said, adding: "Nobody actually witnessed him taking his own life."
The bodies of Crouse and Ashley have been transported to the morgue, where autopsies will be carried out, police said, adding the investigation was ongoing.
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