Virginia Tech Improved Security Response After 2007 Shootings

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Viriginia Tech locked down its campus and alerted students Thursday within minutes of the fatal shooting of a campus police officer.

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In 2007, the school was heavily criticized for its delayed response to the rampage that resulted in 33 deaths.

Officials used Twitter to send a campus lockdown notice to students seven minutes after the 12:30 p.m. shooting of a Virginia Tech police officer, who was making a routine traffic stop in a campus parking lot. School officials said the gunman, who approached the officer on foot as he was making the traffic stop, fled on foot.