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Virginia Tech officials said a police officer and another person were shot and killed on the school’s campus Thursday and the university locked down the campus, where 33 people died in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

A suspect remained on the loose. A news release from the school said the police officer had pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed.

Witnesses told police the shooter ran toward a parking lot on campus. A second person was found dead in that parking lot.

Authorities believe the suspect is still armed, CBS affiliate WDBJ reports.

Virginia State Police will be taking over the investigation, according to the news release. The FBI has two officers from the Roanoke office on scene, CBS News had learned.

“The campus community should continue to shelter in place and visitors should not come to campus,” the school said.

The suspect was described as a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with neon green brim, a maroon hoodie and backpack.

A message left with the university wasn’t immediately returned. Campus police referred all questions to the university.

“It’s crazy that someone would go and do something like that with all the stuff that happened in 2007,” said Corey Smith, a 19-year-old sophomore from Mechanicsville, Va., who was headed to a dining hall near the site of one of the shootings, but stayed inside after seeing the alerts from the school. “It’s just weird to think about why someone would do something like this when the school’s had so many problems.”

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article courtesy of CBSNews.com

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