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They said they became concerned enough by what they called "stalking" that they reported the matter to the resident advisers in their dorm.

(USA Today) Heather Haugh, the roommate of Emily Hilscher, one of the victims killed in West Ambler Johnston dormitory, had been off campus for the weekend.

She walked up to the dorm shortly before 7:30 a.m., planning to meet her roommate to walk to chemistry class with her.

But police pulled her aside at the door.

That interview would shape the terrible day that followed.

(LA Times) Investigators told Haugh, 18, that her roommate had been shot.

They began asking about Hilscher's romances.

Haugh told them what she knew: Her roommate had spent the weekend on another college campus with her boyfriend Karl Thornhill.

(LA Times) The police asked about guns; Haugh told them Thornhill had recently taken both girls to a shooting range for fun.

She told police she believed he kept the weapons at his home in Blacksburg.

(LA Times) Though Haugh described her roommate as having "a perfect relationship with her boyfriend," investigators suspected the shooting was prompted by a lovers' quarrel.

They relayed their theory to university admin...

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