• Cops: Gang abducted, raped Philadelphia college student

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    By Karen Araiza, NBC10.com

    Philadelphia's La Salle University has offered counseling services to a student who reported being abducted and raped on Easter Sunday.

    The school is also defending its decision not to notify students of the off-campus assault when it happened, saying administrators did not view it as an ongoing threat to their campus community.

    "This case is still very active," said Captain John Darby, who heads up the Special Victims Unit (SVU) of the Philadelphia police department.

    The attack happened about a mile away from the school. The 20-year-old woman told police she was walking on the 4800 block of 10th Street around 10 p.m.

    She said a black van pulled up beside her and four men jumped out, grabbed her and forced her inside. Police are not revealing where the men took her, but the woman told detectives she was sexually assaulted several times before the attackers dropped her off in an unknown location and fled.

    Police say the men are between the ages of 20 and 25. One had "MM" tattooed on his face.

    "We here at SVU take these reports very seriously. We have a very good working relationship with the University and we're in constant communication with them," Darby said.

    As news of the incident spread around campus, students like sophomore Karla Fernandez were concerned. "It couldv'e been anyone," she said.

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    Some students complained that the school didn't notify them about the attack. Federal law requires universities to issue safety alerts and advisories when there are serious or ongoing threats to the student or staff. This specific case, did not fit those guidelines, according to the school.

    "Based on what we know, (which we cannot detail) it was decided a safety alert/advisory was not required, as we believed there was no serious or ongoing threat to our students or employees as a result of the reported incident," said Jon Caroulis, La Salle's Director of Media Relations.

    Four days later, the school sent out a Safety Reminder to students, notifying them of the attack and offering the following tips:

    Refrain from walking alone, particularly at night, in off-campus areas.

    Travel in well-lit areas. Avoid shortcuts through driveways.

    Report suspicious persons to Security and Safety or Philadelphia Police.

    Be constantly aware of your surroundings at all times.

    Use university shuttle and escort services.

    "This is a very pro-active approach," said Capt. Darby. "They took this opportunity to remind folks of the steps that could be taken to minimize risk."

    The latest crime statistics from La Salle are complete through the year 2011.

    They show that on the main campus, a total of 4 sex assaults were reported in 2011, none in 2010 and two in 2009.

    The bulk of student offenses are drinking and drug-related and most of that behavior goes on in the school's residence halls, according to the statistics.

    The 10-year trend is down for drinking, and up for drug-related cases where students were disciplined.

    La Salle University is located in the northwestern section of Philadelphia, on the edge of Germantown. According to the school website, the total student body is made up of over 7,300 students.

  • Ind. man threatened school shooting during argument with wife

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    Von. I. Meyer, 60, of Cedar Lake, Ind., seen in an undated photo provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Department, allegedly made threats to shoot people at the school where his wife worked during an argument.

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    A man was arrested after allegedly threatening to "kill as many people as he could" at a school during a heated argument with his wife, police in Indiana said Sunday.

    Interim Cedar Lake Police Chief Jerry Smith said he believed Von I. Meyer, 60, was just bluffing when he made the ominous remark early Friday, NBCChicago.com reported.

    Meyer, who was arrested Saturday on seven felony charges, initially threatened to set his wife on fire, then said he would kill her "at the school" where she worked and "would kill as many people as he could before police could stop him police," Smith said.


    Meyer's wife works at the cafeteria at Jane Ball Elementary School, less than 1,000 feet from the couple's home in Cedar Lake, about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.

    Smith said Meyer's wife stayed away from that school Friday and police boosted security at the elementary school and three other area schools as a precaution, taking those steps before 26 people, including 20 students, were shot and killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

    "We just didn't want to take any chances," he said of the extra security at the schools.

    47 guns hidden in house
    Although police found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout Meyer's two-story home after they arrested him, Smith said most of those weapons were antique collector guns and he believes Meyer was not serious about his school threat.

    He said Meyer's wife told officers their relationship was turbulent and he had often threatened her.

    "If people followed through on all the threats they've ever made — things said in anger that they don't really mean and regret — our population in this country would be half of what it is," he said. "This was something he said in the heat of an argument. He hadn't been plotting this."

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    Meyer fled his home early Friday after his wife reported the alleged threats to police, and he may have gone into hiding in a densely wooded area around his home, Smith said.

    Police watched the house, but Meyer apparently slipped back into his home at some point. He was arrested there without incident Saturday on felony intimidation, resisting law enforcement and domestic battery charges.

    Meyer remained jailed Sunday without bond at the Lake County Jail, pending an initial hearing on the charges. It wasn't clear Sunday whether he had an attorney yet.

    Police initially said Meyer was "a known member of the Invaders Motorcycle Gang," but Smith said Sunday evening Meyer is not an active member of that group, although he was affiliated with it in his youth.

    Smith said security would remain high at the area's school in the coming days, mostly because of the heightened concerns nationwide in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage in Connecticut.

    "One of your greatest fears is that someone might try to be a copycat," he said.

    Hoax threat in Conn., Texas rumors
    Separately, police in Bristol, Conn., took a person into custody Sunday night after a false online threat was made against a school there, NBCConnecticut.com reported.

    According to police, a juvenile made threats against Bristol Central High School – about 25 miles away from the scene of Friday’s elementary school massacre.

    Upon further investigation, the threat was found to be a hoax.

    Meanwhile, extra police will be on duty at a school campus in Texas Monday morning after rumors of an alleged security threat there started spreading over the weekend, NBCDFW.com reported.

    Leaders at Granbury High School, south-west of Forth Worth, issued a statement to concerned parents stating the district is actively investigating the threat and the threat rumor has not been confirmed.

    NBCChicago.com’s Rick Callahan, NBCDFW.com and NBCConnecticut.com contributed to this report. 

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  • Robbery sparks epic chase, college lockdown, arrest at baseball diamond

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    By NBCLosAngeles.com and wire reports

    LOS ANGELES -- A violent pawn shop robbery on Wednesday sparked a police chase across three California counties, a carjacking, an eight-hour lockdown for thousands of college students and staff, and the arrest of three suspects, including one within sight of Los Angeles' police chief at a charity event.

    Two suspects remained at large early Thursday but the lockdown at California State University, Fullerton ended at 12:10 a.m. local time (3:10 a.m. ET).

    The chase began after five men wearing ski masks and armed with handguns robbed at pawn shop in Moreno Valley at about 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET), shooting an employee of the store.


    The clerk was shot four times and underwent surgery at Riverside County Regional Medical Center, where he was in a critical but stable condition on Wednesday night.

    Pawn shop clerk shot 4 times in robbery that sparked pursuits, campus lockdown

    California Highway Patrol officers responded to a call describing the suspect vehicle and followed it to Fullerton.

    At 3:47 p.m., the pursuit ended after the car exited the Orange (57) Freeway and stopped after it was involved in a minor collision in front of the university campus, Fullerton police Sgt. Jeff Stuart said at a news conference.

    Nearly 10,000 students were at the university preparing for next week's finals when two men ran onto campus, where one was immediately taken into custody. The other man fled and was seen going into the school’s Mihaylo Hall, where business and economics are taught, Stuart said.

    The school activated the lockdown at about 4 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET), sending a text to students telling them to stay where they were, The Associated Press reported.

    The three other men headed southbound from campus. One was taken into custody, and another carjacked a vehicle and led authorities on a high-speed chase. The driver blew through several stop signs and red lights in residential areas of Compton.

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    The man abandoned the car in the Watts area of Los Angeles and ran through a crowded area before surrendering on a baseball field at Imperial Courts Recreation Center, which was hosting a toy drive held by the Los Angeles Police Department.

    LAPD Chief Charlie Beck was among those attending the event and chased after the suspect as he headed toward the baseball diamond, away from dozens of police officers gathered at the park.

    Chris Bugbee, a spokesman for Cal State Fullerton, told NBC that police had captured a total of three suspects, but two remained at large.

    Stuart said SWAT team members were searching the area.

    "A large number of students were able to flee the building where the suspect ran into. They've been evacuated from the campus. Those students and staff members that are still on campus are in what's called a shelter in place," Stuart said before the lockdown was lifted. "Our goal is to go around and rescue those individuals as we do our search. This is going to be an all-night operation."

    He added: "It's a huge campus, so it's a very daunting task."

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    A student in one of the locked-down buildings said he witnessed officers checking every classroom.

    "A cop came running through and he said, 'They have guns, they have guns,'" said another witness, Shant Fermanian. "So all these people started rushing so me and my cousin, we looked up, and we just got out of there as soon we can. We had no idea what was going on."

    Fermanian said he saw a man, who was later taken into custody, run around a nearby building but did not see any weapons.

    Christine Accetta, locked down in McCarthy Hall, tweeted a photo about 6:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. ET) of a barricade students created inside a classroom. Four hours later, Accetta tweeted: "We have been released!"

     

    Another student, Raquel Mireles, said the university had been regularly in touch with students via text message with updates on the developing situation.

    "They're just trying ... to keep us safe," Mireles said, who said she was in College Park. "They're being really helpful. The cops have come through and told us to stay calm."

    She said the blinds had been closed in the classroom she was in, and chairs had been placed in front of the door.

    "The lights are off. We're kind of just all huddled together right now," Mireles said.

    While she talked on air to NBC4, a loudspeaker announcement told her to evacuate the building.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

  • Naked freshman shot to death by campus police officer at University of South Alabama

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    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A campus police officer at the University of South Alabama on Saturday shot and killed a naked freshman who repeatedly chased, threatened and rushed him, a university spokesman said.


    Gilbert Thomas Collar, 18, died from a single bullet wound to the chest, spokesman Keith Ayres said.

    Collar was ordered several times to halt and continued to challenge the officer even after being shot, Ayres said. He died at the scene.

    The incident began shortly before 1:30 a.m. when the officer heard loud banging on the window of the campus police station. He drew his gun after finding the student in a fighting stance, according to Ayres.

    The officer tried to calm Collar and retreated several times before shooting him, he said.

    The spokesman declined to speculate on whether Collar was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. An autopsy is likely, he said.

    The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, Ayres added.

    The University of South Alabama is in Mobile and serves 15,000 students. 

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  • Gunman on UConn campus commits suicide

    A gunman discovered on the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus turned the gun on himself after hours of negotiating with police. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

    By NBC News staff and wire reports

    A standoff with an armed man at the University of Connecticut in Groton that forced the evacuation of the campus is over after the man committed suicide, according to local reports.


    Police had been negotiating for hours with the man, who had crawled beneath a dock on the premises.

    “As the subject was pointing the weapon towards himself and towards others,” Connecticut Police Lt. Paul Vance said, “troopers deployed less-than-lethal equipment in an effort, again, to disarm the subject. Again, it was not successful.”

    They attempted to stop the gunman by talking to him on his cell phone and tried to distract him by using bean bags, flash grenades and a tactical vehicle, NBCConnecticut.com reported.

    The man’s family had called Groton, Conn., police around 5 p.m. Monday, saying he was despondent and armed, police said. A few hours later, he drove his Jeep onto the university campus.

    Police spotted the gunman just after 10 p.m. ET Monday, threatening to hurt himself.

    At around 2:15 a.m. ET, police said they had set up a perimeter around him.

    Police ordered an emergency evacuation of the entire campus, and a brief emergency alert was sent out and posted to the university’s website.

    “He doesn’t appear to be a threat to others, but we want to secure his safety,” University of Connecticut spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said during the standoff.

    Police said the man was 30 years old, and they won’t release his name until the family is notified.

    A group of high school students was on the campus for a summer program, but the students remained in another building on the opposite side of campus during the standoff. Reitz said very few people were believed to be on campus because of summer vacation.

    The school reopened at 8 a.m. ET Tuesday, but the investigation continues. 

    NBC Connecticut and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • 80 rape reports in 3 years: Montana city, campus complaints prompt Justice Department probe

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    MISSOULA, Mont. – The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a broad probe Tuesday into complaints that authorities were failing to aggressively investigate sexual assault reports in Missoula, citing more than 80 reported rapes there during the past three years. 

    The investigation includes a review of the handling of sexual assault and harassment reports at the University of Montana at Missoula, where at least 11 student-related sex assault cases have surfaced in recent months. 


    At least two members of the university's Big Sky Conference champion football team, the Grizzlies, have been accused of rape, leading to the recent dismissal of the football coach and the school's athletic director. 

    A central thrust of the federal investigation will focus on complaints that local law enforcement has failed to properly investigate and prosecute sexual assaults on women in Missoula due to gender discrimination, the justice department said. 

    "The allegations that the University of Montana, the local police department and the county attorney's office failed to adequately address sexual assaults are very disturbing," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. 

    Full story at KECI, NBC Montana

    Local authorities said the incidence of rape in Missoula, a western Montana city of 86,000 people, is on par with similarly sized college towns, and the county's chief prosecutor questioned the Justice Department's rationale for its inquiry. 

    The investigation comes in the midst of an election year in which women's issues have moved to the forefront as candidates seek to burnish their credentials among female voters. 

    The Justice Department probe will examine the inner workings of the university's public safety office, the Missoula Police Department and the Missoula County Attorney's Office. 

    Additionally, the department will review whether the university is complying with federal laws specifically barring sex discrimination, defined as including sexual assault and sexual harassment, in education programs, officials said. 

     Details of the investigation were announced at a news conference in Missoula, whose economy and identity are closely entwined with the state's flagship research institution. 

    "There are a lot of women in the community who have strong concerns about the manner in which sexual assaults have been handled," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. 

    Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir acknowledged his department had received roughly 80 rape reports in the past three years. But he said that on a per-capita basis, that figure was at or below the average level of reported rapes for U.S. college towns of similar size and makeup. 

    Muir, who said his department would cooperate with the inquiry, said he did not know how many of those reports had resulted in criminal charges being filed. Justice Department officials said they will be delving into that very question. 

    Missoula County's chief prosecutor, Fred Van Valkenburg, fiercely defended his office and the local police, calling the Justice Department probe an "overreach by the federal government." 

    "I have no reason to believe (police) violated anyone's rights," he said, adding that his office had no choice but to cooperate given "the heavy hand of a federal government that refuses to tell us what we supposedly have done wrong." 

    However, for Missoula business and university boosters, the investigation is an unwelcome development.

    Administrators and business leaders say they worry about fallout from the Justice Department probe and six months of news about sex assault investigations tied to the university. From the fall of 2010 to fall of 2011, full-time student enrollment dropped by 2 percent.

    NBC Montana and Reuters contributed to this report.

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  • Report: Oikos University shootings suspect 'can't deal with women'

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    One Goh is seen in this handout booking photo from the Alameda County Sheriff's Department released to Reuters April 3, 2012. Goh, 43-years-old and a former student at Oikos University, is accused of killing seven people and wounding three in a shooting rampage at the small Christian college in Oakland on Monday.

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    One Goh, the former student accused of shooting dead seven people at a small Christian college in Oakland, Calif., was consumed by an inability to get along with women, according to a report.

    The 43-year-old Korean-American, who had been expelled from Oikos University for "anger management" issues, had been cooperative since being taken into custody after Monday's shootings but was "not particularly remorseful," Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday.

    He is expected to face charges from prosecutors Wednesday.

    About 1,000 people, including relatives and friends of the victims, gathered for a memorial service on Tuesday evening at the Allen Temple Baptist Church, where the congregation consists mainly of African-American and Korean-American worshippers. The service was conducted in both English and Korean.

    Many of the assembled wept quietly with hands clasped and heads bowed. Flowers were laid at the podium, where clergy from different faiths offered prayers. Some mourners swayed and waved their hands in the air and wiped tears from their eyes while hymns were sung.

    One of the speakers, Mayor Jean Quan, said the gun violence that shook Oakland this week could occur anywhere in America.

    "This is America, where you can find a gun easier than mental health services," she said.

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    Oikos, founded by a pastor from South Korea, serves about 100 students in a single building and has close links to the Korean-American Christian community.

    Oikos University shooting school catered to Koreans

    Goh's former nursing instructor, Romie Delariman, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle saying the student didn't fit in at a college where women make up the majority of the nursing faculty and student body.

    Behavioral problems
    Delariman described Goh as a good and eager student, but added, "He just can't deal with women. ... I always advised him, 'You go to school to learn, not to make friends.'"

    The teacher disputed accounts that Goh had been picked on due to his imperfect English, characterizing his problems as behavioral.

    In the deadliest campus shooting in five years, a former student opened fire at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., Monday, killing at least seven people. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.

    "He can't get along with people," Delariman was quoted by the newspaper as saying. "If you say, 'How are you?' he'll say, 'Why? Don't I look OK? Did I do something to you?' "

    Oikos University shootings: Gunman targeted administrator

    Police on Tuesday said Goh’s intended target – a female administrator – escaped the shooting spree and remains alive.

    Three people wounded by Goh were released from an Oakland hospital by mid-morning on Tuesday.

    Goh surrendered at a Safeway grocery store several miles away.

    Reuters and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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  • Police: College shooter targeted female administrator

    NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports on the deadliest campus shooting in five years

    By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services

    Updated at 12 p.m. ET: One Goh, the former Oikos University student accused of killing seven people at the college's campus in Oakland, Calif., told authorities he was upset with being expelled and had sought out a female college official who was not present, the city's police chief said Tuesday.


    Goh "then went through the entire building systematically and randomly shooting victims," Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference.

    "We do know that he was upset at administrators at the school. We do know that he was upset with several students here because of the way he was treated when he was enrolled here two months ago," Jordan said.

    He said Goh, 43, had been teased. The South Korean national had been expelled, possibly for behavioral problems, according to Jordan.

    "They disrespected him, laughed at him. They made fun of his lack of English speaking skills. It made him feel isolated compared to the other students," Jordan said.

    Goh tried to find the female administrator and began shooting when he learned she wasn't there, Jordan said. The victims, who range in age from 21 to 40, were from various countries, including Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines.

    Other reports indicated that Goh, who reportedly had been a nursing student, recently lost two family members and had debts.

    In Monday's rampage -- the deadliest U.S. campus shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech killings -- one witness said Goh told students: "Get in line and I'm going to kill you all."

    Jordan said Goh first took a receptionist hostage and then went looking for a particular female administrator. He then took the receptionist into a classroom and, on realizing the administrator was not there, he shot the receptionist and lined students up against a wall.

    Goh surrendered Monday afternoon at a grocery store several miles away from the scene.

    Gunman kills 7 at small California university

    Three others were injured but suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police told NBC Bay Area.

    The station said at least one of the injured, a 19-year-old woman, was released from the hospital late Monday after suffering a gun shot wound to her arm.

    The San Francisco Chronicle said Goh's brother, U.S. Army Sgt. Su Wan Ko, died in March 2011 in a car crash in Virginia while on special forces training.

    It also reported that his mother, Oak Chul Kim, died a year ago in Seoul, where she moved after leaving Oakland, according to her former neighbors in Oakland.

    Rent owed
    The Chronicle said Goh used to live in Virginia, where records show a string of judgments against him, including an eviction from apartments in Hayes where he owed $1,300 back rent at the time he left.

    Records show federal tax demands were issued in 2006 and 2009 for a total of $23,000, although the newspaper said he had managed to repay some of the money.

    NBCSanDiego reported that Goh's parents lived in two different apartments in Chula Vista between 1998 and 2000, though exact details on the street locations of those homes remain unknown.

    Paul Singh, whose 19-year-old sister Devinder Kaur was shot in the arm during Monday's rampage, told Reuters that according to his sister, Goh was a former student who showed up to class for the first time in four months.

    "'Get in line and I'm going to kill you all,' is what he said this morning, my sister told me. They thought he was joking at first,'" Singh said.

    Tashi Wangchuk, whose wife attended the school and witnessed the shooting, said he was told by police that the gunman first shot a woman at the front desk, then continued shooting randomly in classrooms.

    Wangchuk said his wife was in her vocational nursing class when she heard gunshots. She locked the door and turned off the lights.

    The gunman "banged on the door several times and started shooting outside and left," he said. Wangchuk said no one was hurt inside his wife's classroom, but that the gunman shot out the glass in the door. He said she did not know the man.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • Colorado court: Students can carry guns on college campuses

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    DENVER -- Gun-rights advocates won an important victory on Monday after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that students and employees with concealed weapon permits can carry handguns on University of Colorado campuses, overturning a ban by the school's regents.

    "We're disappointed in this instance that the State Supreme Court ruled that the regents don't have the statutory and constitutional authority to govern our campuses,” Ken McConnellogue, vice president of communications for CU, said. “We believe they are in the best position to make determinations about campus safety and the safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors."

    Gun-rights advocates had challenged the university policy that was adopted in 1994, arguing that the university's governing board had superseded state gun laws.

    The justices agreed, noting that the state's concealed-carry law, passed by the state legislature, trumped the university's policy.

    The court said state lawmakers had passed the concealed weapons law to provide a uniform statewide law because of "widespread inconsistencies" among jurisdictions about how to enforce gun laws.

    "CU is going to have to fall in line and follow the state law just like Colorado State has been doing since 2003," said Jim Manley, an attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which represented Students for Concealed on Campus. "The problem with CU's argument is that Colorado State has been doing the opposite. They've been allowing licensed concealed carry on campus for almost a decade and they've had no problem, no safety issues."

    The State Supreme Court decision remands the case back to a lower court and it may take several weeks before CU is forced to drop its ban.

    Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • Latest photos from Virginia Tech shootings

    Don Petersen / AP

    Virginia Tech police officers console one another as they move toward the scene where a fellow police officer was killed in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Dec. 8, in Blacksburg, Va. A man killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday at Virginia Tech, sending a shudder through campus as students and faculty were told to stay inside and police searched for the gunman, school officials said.

    NBC News and msnbc.com staff report:

    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 wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon green brim and a maroon hoodie, and carrying a backpack.

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    Don Petersen / AP

    Local S.W.A.T. team members congregate near a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech to look for an armed man who is suspected of killing two people, Dec. 8, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The deaths came on the same day university officials were in Washington appealing a fine that federal officials gave them over the school's response five years ago.

    Don Petersen / AP

    Police officials examine the body of a police officer shot to death in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Dec. 8, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The deaths came on the same day university officials were in Washington appealing a fine that federal officials gave them over the school's response five years ago.

    Katherine Davison / Reuters

    Armed police officers search the Virginia Tech campus near the Squires Student Center for a gunman after a police officer and another person were shot and killed on the campus in Blacksburg, Va., Dec. 8.