State trooper, gunman dead after shooting at Virginia Greyhound station

The Richmond, Virginia, Greyhound station where a state trooper was shot.

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last updated 1 April 2016

A Virginia state trooper died after being shot multiple times Thursday at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia.

Police Trooper Chad Dermyer, 37, was shot by a man who opened fire near the entrance to the bus station while troopers were finishing a training exercise, NBC News reports. He died later in the hospital. The suspected gunman died when two other troopers returned fire, a state police spokeswoman said, and two civilians were also injured during the shooting.

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Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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