ETTRICK, Va. -- Karon Hampton said he could not believe it when his roommate told him he found bedbugs in their Virginia State University dorm room.
"I go in the room and on one of my roommates beds, there's like two or three of them," Hampton said. "We didn't pay all this money to come here to get bed bugs."
Hampton and his roommates share a second floor dorm room in VSU's Whiting Hall. He said school officials told them to take just the clothes they needed for one day and leave their room.
Hampton's mother arrived on campus Tuesday morning to help her son find a temporary room. She was adamant VSU needed to find her son another room for the rest of the semester.
"I'm waiting to know what's going to happen with his stuff," she said. "His stuff is all spread out. Who's going to watch it? When are the exterminators coming?"
Karon Hampton said VSU informed him he would be allowed to stay in a different room for the rest of the semester, but he or his parents would have to pay for his clothes to go to the laundry.
A spokesman for Virginia State University confirmed this was the second bedbug incident in a dorm in two weeks. In each case, the problem was isolated to just one room. Is there a story you want CBS 6 to investigate? Click here to email the CBS 6 Newsroom.
