Former college student arraigned in shooting deaths of two campus officers; his mother says she "could not prevent it"

A former student at a private college in Virginia was arraigned Wednesday on murder charges, a day after authorities say he returned to his alma mater and fatally shot two campus officers.

Police identified the gunman in Tuesday's shooting at Bridgewater College as Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27. A spokeswoman for the small liberal arts school about 125 miles northwest of Richmond said Campbell was a student there from 2013 to 2017.

Campbell made his first court appearance Wednesday in Harrisonburg/Rockingham General District Court.