Va. Tech police chief to testify in shooting trial  — Attorneys
at a trial seeking an accounting of the deadly 2007 rampage on
the Virginia Tech campus are expected to question the chief of
the university's police force Wednesday to explain his actions
during the first two killings on campus.  Police Chief Wendell
Flinchum is among the witnesses scheduled to testify in a
wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of two students
who were among the 33 killed during the deadliest mass shooting
in modern U.S. history.  Flinchum's officers were the first to
investigate the slayings at Ryan Clark and Emily Hilscher in a
dormitory on the morning of April 16, 2007, and they concluded
the students were likely the victims of a domestic dispute - a
jealous boyfriend or girlfriend. That conclusion led officials
to believe the slayings were targeted and that the killer was
not a threat to the campus.  As a result, a campus-wide alert
about the killings was not released by university administrators
for more than 2 1/2