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| Escape prompts shutdown at Va. Tech |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/21/2006 |
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BLACKSBURG, VA - Virginia Tech shut down its campus today and ordered everyone to remain inside as authorities searched for an escaped inmate suspected of killing a hospital guard and a sheriff's deputy. William Morva, 24, had been seen near the campus, authorities said. Montgomery County Sheriff's Cpl. Eric E. Sutphin was closing in on the fugitive this morning along a trail off the university campus when he was fatally shot, the sheriff's department said. Officials canceled today's first day of classes for the more than 25,000 students at Virginia Tech as a precaution...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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