Multiple fatalities in Va. shooting

Posted 18m ago

APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police are reporting multiple fatalities and injuries involving a lone gunman in central Virginia.

State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says more than 100 law enforcement officials have surrounded the suspected gunman in a wooded area just outside of Appomattox. She could not say how many had been killed or injured.

Police say the violence began shortly after noon Tuesday when an injured man was found on a rural stretch of road.

Police say when officers responded, someone fired at them. A state police helicopter had to land with a ruptured fuel tank. The officers were not injured.

It is not known what prompted the shootings.

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