Manhunt Shuts Down Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Virginia Tech closed campus and canceled classes Monday, the first day of classes, as police hunt for a jail escapee who's accused of shooting and killing a hospital security guard and a police officer.
Lt. Vincent Houston with Virginia Tech's police department says that students have been told to stay in their dorms or academic areas. School was to have started for more than 25,000 students.
Police are on the hunt for 24-year-old William Morva, who escaped from a hospital in Blacksburg Sunday.
Morva, who was jailed on charges of robbing a deli, was taken to the Montgomery Regional Hospital emergency room in handcuffs and leg irons after he suffered a sprained wrist and ankle, Sheriff Tommy Whitt said.
He overpowered a deputy and took his pistol Sunday. Shots were fired, killing hospital security guard Derrick McFarland, 26, as he tried to help the deputy.
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