12-09-2011, 08:42 AM
12/9/11
Blacksburg, VA -- Virginia Tech Officials and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell confirmed that a campus police officer was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop.
In the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses, a Virginia Tech Police officer was gunned down Thursday in the Coliseum Parking lot on the school's campus.
The officer has been identified as 39 year-old Deriek W. Crouse. Crouse had been with the school's police department patrol division since October 2007.
Crouse leaves behind a wife and five children and stepchildren, his mother and a brother. Crouse was an Army veteran, according to university officials.
RIP Officer Deriek W. Crouse
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