Virginia Tech shootings: Police officer, gunman killed

Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse, 39, was fatally shot during a routine traffic stop, and the second person, the gunman, took his life in a nearby parking lot, officials said. A funeral service for Crouse was held on Monday on the Virginia Tech campus.

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Dec. 12, 2011

The casket of slain Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse is carried from his funeral service at Cassell Coliseum on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. Crouse's wife, Tina, second from right at top, follows the casket with her children.

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Dec. 12, 2011

Salem police officers grieve during the funeral service for Crouse, who was shot and killed on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

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2009

Tina Crouse and Deriek Crouse pose for a family photo in 2009. Deriek W. Crouse was making a traffic stop on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., on Dec. 9 when police say Ross Truett Ashley, a 22-year-old student from a nearby college, walked up to his cruiser and shot him.

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2003

Deriek W. Crouse is pictured during his 2003-04 military tour in Iraq. A funeral for Crouse was held on Monday on the Virginia Tech campus.

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Deriek W. Crouse is pictured here as a teenager. Police are still looking for a motive in Crouse’s death.

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Dec. 9, 2011

As a full moon rises behind him, a state police officer watches as members of the greater Virginia Tech community hold a candlelight vigil to honor the life of Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse.

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Dec. 9, 2011

A police officer holds a candle during a memorial service and candlelight vigil for fallen Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. A gunman, later identified as Ross Truett Ashley, allegedly shot Crouse in a parking lot on the Virginia Tech campus. Ashley apparently later turned the gun on himself, police said.

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Dec. 9, 2011

Friends and family, pictured in the foreground, of fallen Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse reflect during a memorial service and candlelight vigil on the school's campus. Hundreds attended vigils at the site on Thursday and Friday nights. The events were a chance to remember and showcase the community's resiliency.

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Dec. 9, 2011

A Virginia Tech student writes a note to fallen Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse before a memorial service at the school.

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Dec. 9, 2011

Virginia Tech students sign notes on boards before a candlelight vigil on campus, as a memorial to Virginia Tech police officer Deriek Crouse, who was gunned down Thursday during a traffic stop on the school's campus.

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Dec. 9, 2011

Flowers and words of thanks are left as a memorial in the parking lot where Virginia Tech police officer Deriek Crouse was gunned down Thursday during a traffic stop on the school's campus in Blacksburg.

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This photo provided by the Virginia State Police shows Ross Truett Ashley, 22. Police identified Truett as the Virginia Tech gunman. Ashley was a part-time student from nearby Radford University. Police have not been able to ascertain what led him to kill officer Deriek Crouse and then turn the gun on himself.

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Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse, 39, of Christiansburg, Va., was killed Thursday on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. Police have found no connection between Crouse and the gunman.

Students participate in a candlelight vigil in front of the memorial to the 2007 shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Thursday's shootings marked 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.

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Virginia Tech students Maggie Cashion, left, and Kasey Kraft pause to remember the Virginia Tech police officer who was killed on campus.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Law enforcement officers work to clean the road at the site where a police officer was fatally shot at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Law enforcement officers load a police vehicle onto a tow truck.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Flowers are left on the ground.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Virginia State Police officer Bob Carpentari speaks during a press conference on the campus of Virginia Tech.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Students return to activities after school officials declared the campus safe.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A Virginia Tech student runs past a memorial for the 2007 shooting victims.

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Dec. 8, 2011

The memorial to the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A police officer inspects a vehicle after the incident.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Local S.W.A.T. team members congregate near a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Students talk on their cellphones and take pictures in downtown Blacksburg, Va.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A sign reports that the Squires Student Center is on lockdown at Virginia Tech. The school has lifted an afternoon-long lockdown, saying there is no longer a threat on its Blacksburg campus.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Police officers walk across the Virginia Tech campus.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Police gather near Cassell Coliseum, near where a police officer was shot on the Virginia Tech campus.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A person sits near Squires Student Center on the campus of Virginia Tech.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A police officer secures the scene where a gunman killed a police officer after a routine traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech 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.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Police secure the scene where a gunman killed a police officer on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

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Dec. 8, 2011

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.

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Dec. 8, 2011

A scene on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., where two people were shot and killed, according to university officials. Virginia Tech installed a high-tech alert system after the shooting rampage at the school in 2007, when 33 people, including shooter Seung Hui Cho, were killed.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Students were told to stay indoors while police searched for a gunman on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. Alerts went out via e-mail, text-message, electronic message board in classrooms and audible alarms on campus to alert students of the shootings, all within minutes of the gunshots being fired.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Students were told to stay indoors while police searched for a gunman on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

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Dec. 8, 2011

Police vehicles are seen on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

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