Blacksburg, Va., police officers have apprehended the shooting suspect who was the subject of a manhunt that closed parts of the city, including the campus of Virginia Tech, The Roanoke Times reports. The man, a Montgomery County, Va., prison inmate, escaped from custody at a hospital on Sunday and is suspected in the fatal shootings of a security guard and a sheriff’s deputy.

Virginia Tech had canceled classes and sent thousands of employees home on the first day of its fall term while the manhunt was under way, and police officers searched its student center this morning. Students were advised to return to their apartments or dormitories. The Associated Press reported that dump trucks and police cruisers blocked roads leading to the campus, and students said they saw sharpshooters posted on the roofs of campus buildings.

After the suspect’s arrest, near athletics fields south of the campus, the university announced in a statement on its Web site that normal operations would resume on Tuesday.