Suspect accused of fatal shootings of officer and security guard is captured in Blacksburg

What a way to start the new school year.

Police say they have captured William Morva in woods near rugby and lacross fields on Blacksburg’s Tech Center Drive. They say they have recovered a weapon believed to have been used in the shooting this morning of Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric E. Sutphin and the shooting early Sunday morning of Derrick McFarland, a security guard at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Both Sutphin and McFarland died.

Morva, 24, also is accused of injuring another deputy as he escaped custody at the hospital. Morva had been jailed since being charged last year in an attempted robbery.

A far cry from my first day at Virginia Tech.

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