blacksburg, virginia. this from the virginia tech web te. they have reported that a police officer has been shot, that a police officer has been shot and that there is a potential second victim reported at a parking lot nearby. they are advising the students to stay indoors, to secure themselves where they are right now, to call 911 for help if they need it, and they have alerted the students that emergency personnel are responding. they have described the suspect as a white male with gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon green brim, maroon hoodie and a backpack. saying that he is on foot. again, asking anyone who sees him to call 911. we re trying to get more information for you. as we have it, we will bring it to you right here. in the meantime, there is new fallout today over the obama administration s policies on israel and some recent comments made by key administration officials. during the republican jewish presidential forum last night, many of the gop hopefuls there
suspected shooting and a suspect identified, but a police officer has been shot. that s the latest from web site from the university down there. a potential second victim is reported at the caged lot. stay indoors, secure in place. now, as you know back in april of 2007 sun by cho opened fire on this campus killing 32 people, and he killed himself as well. it was one of the largest shootings in a single incident in u.s. history, so certainly authorities not taking any chances now. they re keeping students indoors and out of harm s way as much as possible as they investigate. there is some information about the identity of this suspect. not his name, but simply a description that has gone out. he s a suspect described as a white male with gray sweat pants, gray hat with neon green brim, maroon hoodie and a backpack, on foot towards
wearing gray sweat pants, a great hat with neon green brim, a maroon hoody and back pack. he apparently fled that scene on foot. what we don t have a description of is exactly what kind of weapons he might have or if there were multiple weapons. we don t know exactly the layout of that campus. the advicery that has gone out says he went on forward towards mccomb as, whether that s the name of a hall or street, i m not sure. i m not that familiar with the virginia tech campus. but again, what happened at the time was that there were concerns about alerts being sent out to the students, so there you see on your screen that alert. the report of the shots fired and the initial description that went out that we just read to you. you see the very last line there of that description call 911. they want people to stay inside the buildings that they are in,
trump. he s always outspoken, and his old possible presidential ambitions. he still has some. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get to breaking news. a chilling sense of da ja view. reports of shots fired, campus lock down, virginia tech university earlier this afternoon. it brings to mind the 2007 rampage by a student that left 33 people dead. today s incident was a shooting during the traffic stop by campus police. two people are are dead. brian todd is monitoring the developments for us. what is the very latest? as far as we know, a man hunt the still underway. officials say one of the people killed was a virginia tech police officer making a routine traffic stop in the parking lot of the sports complex. the second body has not been identified. they say the shooter fled on foot and a search is underway. the campus on lockdown. here is what one eyewitness told a local station. i was coming out of the gym and i was just walking to the sidewalk to
lockdown. this is because there were shots fired on campus. we don t know by whom but we do know by the website the suspect is described as a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon brim and some type of maroon hoodie and also carrying a pack back. apparently the suspect is on foot. we don t know how many shots were fired. but as you know, virginia tech certainly on high alert in the years following the 2007 incident. there were no classes there are no classes today. the finals are supposed to take place tomorrow. we ll see what happens today but this was basically a study day, read-in day for the students there. so maybe that is a good thing. maybe they were all in their rooms or in the library studying at this point. many of them may not be out on the campus walking around. as you probably recall, back in 2007, in two separate attacks, about two hours apart, the shooter in that case killed 32 people and wounded 25 years before committing suicide on tha