A police officer has been shot and killed on Virginia Tech's campus during a routine traffic stop, according to the university. A second victim was found dead at another campus parking lot. The suspect is described as a white male wearing a maroon hoodie, and is still at large. The shootings occurred shortly after noon.

Students are asked to stay indoors for now as hundreds of police officers are searching and securing campus buildings and public areas. Area schools are also on lockdown.
"We're looking absolutely everywhere for the person who fits the description," Mark Owczarski, Virginia Tech spokesman, said at a mid afternoon press conference. Students are not in class today because exams were set for tomorrow, he said. Those exams are now postponed. "It's a very tragic day."

Lerone Graham, a reporter for local newspaper the Roanoke Times reported via Twitter that, "students scarce now around campus; sirens sounding constantly." Reports of more gunshots on campus are unfounded, however, the university says.

In 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 people and himself during a shooting rampage.

Virginia Tech began the appeals process for a $55,000 federal fine levied for its handling of the 2007 shooting spree this week in Washington. The government says the university did not warn students that a shooter was on the loose in a timely manner, which is in violation of a 1990 safe campus law known as the Clery Act. The parents of two wounded Tech students said their children would have stayed indoors and avoided injury if the school had notified them, according to the Roanake Times. The school argues that it complied with the law.

Tech upgraded its security system after the 2007 shooting. Owczarski said Tech's alerts system can reach students via text message, email, classroom electronic message boards, campus sirens, and a downloadable application called "desktop alerts." Students were alerted about the shooting today soon after it happened.

Below, you can watch a livestream of events from local CBS affiliate WDBJ7.

Source: Virginia Tech Shooting: Gunman at large, two victims, campus on lockdown


... because the 32 people that died there 4 years ago wasn't enough... =(

I heard this on the news earlier :(

It's a damn shame.