RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? The man who fatally ambushed a Virginia Tech police officer had legally purchased the handgun used in the shooting, Virginia State Police said Tuesday.
Ross T. Ashely, 22, purchased the .40-caliber semiautomatic weapon used to gun down officer Derick Crouse in January from a licensed Virginia gun dealer, state police investigators said in a statement. The name of the dealer was not released.
Crouse was gunned down on Tech's Blacksburg campus during a routine traffic stop on Thursday. Ashley was found a short time later, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators said they have found no link between Ashley and Crouse. Ashley was a part-time student at nearby Radford University.
"Despite investigators' non-stop pursuit of this case, there still remains no prior connection or contact between" the men, the statement said.
The shooting sent tremors through the Virginia Tech campus, which was the scene of the deadliest U.S. mass shooting in April 2007. A gunman killed 32 and then himself.
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