Gunman Reported At Virginia Tech; Campus On Lockdown

Posted on Aug 04, 2011 @ 06:45AM

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The campus of Virginia Tech was put on lockdown Thursday morning after three children attending summer camps at the university reported seeing a man with a gun covered by a cloth.

At a news conference Thursday, police confirmed that no one was in custody.

Authorities are now combing the campus, which was the scene of a horrifying massacre in April, 2007.

The suspect is described as being a white man, 6 ft tall with light brown hair, according to a university administrator who spoke to CNN.

The man was said to be wearing a blue and white striped shirt, brown sandals and did not have glasses or facial hair.

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Davis told CNN that the university hosts as many as 100 different summer camps for children this time of year.

"We have a lot of kids who come to these specialized camps," the administrator told CNN.

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On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech was the scene of a horrifying school massacre. In two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, a gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before committing suicide.

The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history.

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