Two Virginia Tech students were found slain at a Jefferson National Forest campground Thursday, authorities said.
The park is a popular hangout for students from the campus that’s still recovering from the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history two years ago and a beheading at a campus cafe earlier this year.
The bodies of 19-year-old David Lee Metzler, of Lynchburg, and Heidi Lynn Childs, 18, of Forest, were discovered by a passerby, police said. Both appear to have been shot, Metzler inside a car in the parking area of Caldwell Fields and Childs just outside the car. The campground is about 15 miles from the campus.
No suspect has been identified.
Both students were sophomores. Metzler was an engineering major and Childs a biochemistry major.
School officials said counseling services would once again be available for the battered school community.
– Freeman Klopott
