Official: 1 Dead on Virginia Tech Campus
Monday April 16, 2007 4:16 PM
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A shooting at a Virginia Tech dorm Monday left one person dead and one wounded, a state government official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.
A government official with knowledge of the shooting said the gunman had been arrested.
The state university said on its Web site that a shooting had occurred at a residence hall and that students should stay in their homes away from windows.
``There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on,'' said student Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the building where shooting took place.
The shooting was reported at West Ambler Johnston Hall.
Officials ordered the campus closed, the second time in less than a year the 26,000-student campus was shut because of a shooting.
In August 2006, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus.
The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.
