Virginia Tech officials say a computer crash caused the university’s “VT Alert System” to fail during Thursday’s (11/13) shooting scare. It’s not what they expected for the system’s first real-life test since being implemented following the April 16th shootings. Tech officials are blaming the system’s private contractor.

The alert system had previously passed 4 simulated tests.

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