A GUNMAN has shot and killed a campus police officer and then himself at Virginia Tech.
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A GUNMAN has shot and killed a campus police officer and then himself at Virginia Tech.
Two shot dead at Virginia Tech
NewsCore
December 09, 2011 6:26AM
Police officer dead, second body found
Gunman "no longer an active threat"
A Virginia Tech spokesperson said a police officer pulled someone over and was shot and killed. Picture: AP
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A GUNMAN has shot and killed a campus police officer and then himself at Virginia Tech, the scene in 2007 of the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
The university earlier indicated on its website that the gunman - described as a white male in a maroon hooded sweatshirt and grey sweatpants - might still be at large, as the 31,000-student campus was put under lockdown.
"The status of the shooter is unknown," it said. "The campus community should continue to shelter in place and visitors should not come to campus."
A weapon has since been found near the body of a second individual shot and killed on the campus, the university said on its website.
"Law enforcement agencies have determined there is no longer an active threat or need to secure in place," a statement on the school's website read. "Resume normal activities."
The second person found dead at Virginia Tech is believed to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law enforcement source told FOX News Channel.
The gunman is reportedly a Virginia Tech student.
The school said the police officer, a member of Virginia Tech's own security force, was shot and killed during a "routine traffic stop" in a car park near the McComas swimming pool and athletics building.
Police later said the gunman wasn't in the car that was pulled over.
State Police Sergeant Robert Carpentieri said another police officer later spotted a second person in a different parking lot who was alive at the time.
That person, a white man, later died of a gunshot wound.
"Witnesses reported to police the shooter fled on foot heading toward the Cage, a parking lot near Duck Pond Drive," it added.
"At that parking lot, a second person was found. That person is also deceased."
Julia Fleming, a Virginia Tech freshman, told WDBJ-TV that she did not hear any shots being fired, but saw the officer covered in blood.
"I guess the officer didn't make it because they covered him with sheets," the visibly shaken student said.
Picture: AP/The Roanoke Times, Jeff Sturgeon
Collegiate Times, a student newspaper at Virginia Tech, earlier tweeted that students had been moved to a secure location inside the Squires student centre on campus.
Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was the scene of the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in US history in April 2007 when an English major, Seung-Hui Cho, 23, killed 32 people before taking his own life.
Twenty-five others were wounded.
With the drama unfolding today, Twitter was flooded with tweets from people after word of the shooting spread across the internet.
Other people expressed shock and disbelief that another shooting had occurred at the college.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/shots-reportedly-fired-at-virginia-tech/story-e6frfkyi-1226217776191#ixzz1fzFjv4o2
A GUNMAN has shot and killed a campus police officer and then himself at Virginia Tech.
Two shot dead at Virginia Tech
NewsCore
December 09, 2011 6:26AM
Police officer dead, second body found
Gunman "no longer an active threat"
A Virginia Tech spokesperson said a police officer pulled someone over and was shot and killed. Picture: AP
.
A GUNMAN has shot and killed a campus police officer and then himself at Virginia Tech, the scene in 2007 of the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
The university earlier indicated on its website that the gunman - described as a white male in a maroon hooded sweatshirt and grey sweatpants - might still be at large, as the 31,000-student campus was put under lockdown.
"The status of the shooter is unknown," it said. "The campus community should continue to shelter in place and visitors should not come to campus."
A weapon has since been found near the body of a second individual shot and killed on the campus, the university said on its website.
"Law enforcement agencies have determined there is no longer an active threat or need to secure in place," a statement on the school's website read. "Resume normal activities."
The second person found dead at Virginia Tech is believed to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law enforcement source told FOX News Channel.
The gunman is reportedly a Virginia Tech student.
The school said the police officer, a member of Virginia Tech's own security force, was shot and killed during a "routine traffic stop" in a car park near the McComas swimming pool and athletics building.
Police later said the gunman wasn't in the car that was pulled over.
State Police Sergeant Robert Carpentieri said another police officer later spotted a second person in a different parking lot who was alive at the time.
That person, a white man, later died of a gunshot wound.
"Witnesses reported to police the shooter fled on foot heading toward the Cage, a parking lot near Duck Pond Drive," it added.
"At that parking lot, a second person was found. That person is also deceased."
Julia Fleming, a Virginia Tech freshman, told WDBJ-TV that she did not hear any shots being fired, but saw the officer covered in blood.
"I guess the officer didn't make it because they covered him with sheets," the visibly shaken student said.
Picture: AP/The Roanoke Times, Jeff Sturgeon
Collegiate Times, a student newspaper at Virginia Tech, earlier tweeted that students had been moved to a secure location inside the Squires student centre on campus.
Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was the scene of the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in US history in April 2007 when an English major, Seung-Hui Cho, 23, killed 32 people before taking his own life.
Twenty-five others were wounded.
With the drama unfolding today, Twitter was flooded with tweets from people after word of the shooting spread across the internet.
Other people expressed shock and disbelief that another shooting had occurred at the college.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/shots-reportedly-fired-at-virginia-tech/story-e6frfkyi-1226217776191#ixzz1fzFjv4o2
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