Virginia Tech Lifts Alert After Reports of Gunman on Campus
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Virginia Tech, the site of a 2007 massacre in which 33 people were killed, reopened the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus following a lockdown after police searched for a gunman.
A lockdown alert had been issued after three youths reported seeing a man holding what appeared to be a gun at 9:09 a.m. local time. A person with a gun was later reported near the Dietrick Hall dining center, according to a subsequent alert issued at 9:37 a.m.