Police officials examine the body of a police officer shot to death in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Dec. 8, in Blacksburg, Va. (Don Petersen / AP)
Virginia Tech issued a campus-wide alert on Dec. 8, 2011, after gunshots were reported on campus. The university reports a police officer was shot on campus and there is potentially a second victim in the Cage Parking on campus.
The shooting comes the same day as Virginia Tech is appealing a $55,000 fine by the Education Department in connection with the university's response to a 2007 rampage that left 33 people dead.