Update 9-11-09: Task force set up to investigate Montgomery County double homicide.
A multi-agency task force has been formed to investigate the double homicide of two Virginia Tech students.
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The task force is made up of officers from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office; the Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Virginia Tech police departments; the Virginia State Police; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the United States Marshall’s Office; and the United States Forest Service.
What a list! It seems like everybody who can be involved is involved. I can see the US Marshals, and the Forest Service – it happened in a National Forest, so it’s federal land and under the Marshals’ jurisdiction, and the Forest Service is expected – and the FBI, while unexpected, is not surprising, but the ATF? How did they get involved?
Virginia Tech offers $10,000 reward in killings.
Virginia Tech is offering a $10,000 reward for information that helps solve the killings of Tech students Heidi Childs and David Meltzer last week in the Jefferson National Forest.
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Police are following leads and tips, but believe the killings may have been random because investigators have been unable to find a motive.
No leads, no idea if the killer is still around, or if or when he’ll decide to kill again.
Be careful, and remember the first step in self-defense is being aware of your surroundings.
Anonymous
/ September 15, 2009Let's see – 2 students are SHOT, which to most people would imply that a firearm was involved in a crime, and you wonder why ATF is involved in the investigation. HMMM, let me think.
Jake (formerly Riposte3)
/ September 15, 2009Firearms are used in lots of crimes, including murders, without the ATF getting involved. The questions is, what factors brought them into this one?