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BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) – A man who fatally shot a Virginia Tech police officer on Thursday apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Virginia State police said on Friday.
The incident prompted a lockdown of the campus on Thursday and revived memories of a gunman’s 2007 rampage that left 33 people dead in one of the worst shooting incidents in U.S. history.
The man was not a Virginia Tech student and had no known connection to Officer Deriek W. Crouse, 39, officials said. Police said they were still confirming the man’s identity and investigating the motive for the shooting.
Ballistics testing confirmed the same weapon was used in both shootings, police said.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, Crouse had a vehicle stopped in a campus parking lot when he was approached a man and fatally shot while still in his car, police said. The man then fled.
About 30 minutes later, a Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy saw a man acting suspiciously in a parking
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