2009.08.28
Police continue investigation into deaths of Virginia Tech students
Heidi Childs and David Metzler | Facebook photo
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office has continued its investigation into the deaths of two Virginia Tech students from the Lynchburg area whose bodies were found Thursday morning in a remote day-use area of the Jefferson National Forest.
The victims, David Lee Metzler, 19, of Lynchburg and Heidi Lynn Childs, 18, of Forest, appeared to have been shot where they had parked in a day-use area of Caldwell Fields, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Tommy Whitt.
The area is a large group campground in the Jefferson National Forest more than eight miles down Craig Creek Road, where a shooting range and Camp Tuk-A-Way are located, off U.S. 460. As of Friday morning, area roads and the Caldwell Fields section of the national forest had been reopened to the public, with a heavy law enforcement presence along Craig Creek Road in Montgomery County.
-- The Roanoke Times
