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Virginia Tech placed on lockdown after two people are shot to seath
Virginia Tech University released information of a police officer who was shot Thursday and a possible second victim near the campus parking lot, issuing a campus-wide lockdown.

Virginia Tech has issued a campus-wide lock down after information was released of a police officer who was shot Thursday and a possible second victim near the campus parking lot.
A campus-wide alert advised students and faculty to stay indoors and lock all doors. Authorities were in search of the suspect. University and law enforcement officials declined to comment on the condition of the police officer. This marks the second case since 2007’s mass shooting that took the lives of 33 people in modern U.S. history.
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A law enforcement who chose to remain anonymous, stated the shooting at Virginia Tech occurred after a traffic stop.
From sightings, it is believed the suspect is a white male wearing gray pants, a gray hat with a neon brim, a maroon hoodie and backpack.
Ironically, the shooting comes on the same day where the school appealed a $50,000 fine by the U.S. Department of Education. The fine was in connection to the 2007 shooting where a gunman killed 32 students, faculty, and then himself.
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From History.com:
On April 16, 2007, 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide.
The Virginia Tech shooting began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shot a female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus dormitory before fleeing the building.
Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity, they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-violence incident.
However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked several main doors and went from room to room shooting people. Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The attack left 32 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. In all, 27 students and five faculty members died in the massacre
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