On a late summer evening, 19-year-old David Lee Metzler, a White male, and his friend Heidi Childs, drove to a secluded recreational area in the Jefferson National Forest. Both were sophomores at Virginia Tech, just beginning their new school year. They parked in the Caldwell Fields lot, a place popular with students, located in Montgomery County. Metzler had brought his guitar, planning a quiet date for the two of them.
Sometime between 8:25 p.m. and 10 p.m. on August 26, 2009, the peace
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