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Live news on the Virginia Tech shooting

As soon as reports rang out that there was another shooting on or near the Virginia Tech campus, news reports, tweets and status updates immediately popped up.

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A shooting on or near the Virginia Tech campus has left two people dead, the campus on lockdown and thousands more on Twitter praying for their safety.

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Over the last hour, more than 150,000 people have been sharing updates about the shooting, according to statistics from Topsy, a social media search engine. This is the second shooting related incident to occur at Virginia Tech in the last four months.

The name Virginia Tech became forever associated with shootings following the April 16, 2007, massacre where 32 people were killed on campus, the single deadliest single gunman shooting incident in history.

The following Storify will be updated regularly with updates on the shooting.

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