Student slain in Virginia Tech stabbing

Officials at Virginia Polytechnic University reported one student dead in stabbing on the Blacksburg campus Wednesday evening. According to the Virginia Tech Website, the victim was an Asian, female, graduate student and the suspect is an Asian, male, graduate student.

The slaying took place in a coffee shop in the university’s Graduate Life Center around 7:05 p.m. Police and officials currently believe the suspect and victim were acquainted. The suspect was apprehended and taken into custody at the crime scene.

Virginia Tech’s student paper, the Collegiate Times, reported late Wednesday that the university’s text message alert system was not activated until 7:42 p.m., more than 30 minutes after the incident.

“I found out about it at 7:30 p.m., and we had a message out to the university at 7:44 p.m.,” Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker told the Collegiate Times. “It takes a while for 40,000 messages to percolate through the system. We notified the campus community that there was a murder, and that a suspect was in custody.”

Hincker reported the system a success. Although both students were studying abroad, the students’ countries of origin have not been released. By the time officers arrived on the scene at 7:10 p.m., the suspect was clearly deceased, Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum told the Times.

For more information, visit:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/

http://www.roanoke.com

http://www.vt.edu/

Charlotte Taylor

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