 This initiated a manhunt for Morva, who on the morning of August 21, 2006, shot and killed Montgomery County sheriff's deputy Cpl.Eric Sutphin on the Huckleberry Trail near the Virginia Tech Campus.Sutphin had been an officer for 13 years and had survived a prior shooting in May 2003, which killed officer Scott Hylton, leading Sutphin to quit the police force.