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Blogs Cliopatria Virginia Tech

Dec 8, 2011

Virginia Tech

by Cliopatria

WDBJ TV has local livestream news from Blacksburg, Virginia. About noon today, two persons, including a police officer, were killed by an unknown shooter, who remains at large. The campus is on lockdown and final exams are postponed.