WDBJ-TV Dec. 8:
Authorities respond to reports of shots fired in the parking lot of Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum.
BLACKSBURG, Va. – DEVELOPING: A police officer was reportedly shot to death Thursday on Virginia Tech's campus.
The university's Collegiate Times newspaper reported the fatality at about 1:30 p.m. A potential second victim has been reported at a campus parking lot, the university announced on its website.
The suspect, according to the posting, is described as a white male wearing gray sweatpants and a gray hat with a neon green brim. He was believed to traveling on foot near McComas Hall, a campus gym.
Messages seeking comment from school officials were not immediately returned.
"There is an active campus alert in Blacksburg," read a notice on the school's website. "Everyone should seek shelter or stay where you are. Blacksburg Transit service is suspended until the alert is lifted."
Paramedics were seen assisting a person on the ground of a campus parking lot, a witness told FOX News.
Brittany Wilson, a student at the school, told Fox News she and other students were remaining indoors.
"It doesn't seem like too much is going on around here," she said. "We're all just staying in, nothing else is really going on downtown."
On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a senior English major at the school, killed 32 students and faculty before committing suicide.
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