Shocking news from Virginia Tech, where at least 21 are dead following a shooting rampage this morning. The gunman is dead, according to university police chief Wendell Flinchum, who said that some of the victims were shot in a classroom.

Some 20 students were killed at the campus' Norris Hall, home of Virginia Tech's electical engineering department, where shooting commenced at about 9:15 a.m. Two hours earlier, however, a 911 call came from West Ambler Johnston Hall, a dormitory some distance from Norris Hall. At least one person was killed there, with several injured.