Students report Va. Tech shooting

On Dec. 8, 2011, a man killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday at Virginia Tech. The event reminded many of the 2007 shooting, where a student killed 33 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Students took it upon themselves to report from the campus through social media updates and pictures. Sophomore Michael Morrison, an electrical engineering student at Virginia Tech, was able to capture some of the events of the day.

Students were kept safe indoors on campus in areas like Torg Bridge while the suspect was being pursued on Dec. 8, 2011.

Morrison, a sophomore at Virginia Tech, also live tweeted the events on his twitter account @VTMorrison on Dec. 8, 2011.

"Responders outside Squires," Morrison wrote. "These vehicles are now gone."

Morrison reported that there were responders on scene inside Torg Bridge on Dec. 8, 2011.

Daniel Lin from Collegiate Times, the independent student-run paper, snapped a shot of one of the police officers on campus on Dec. 8, 2011.

In this photo taken by Daniel Lin from Collegiate Times, an officer stands guard on the Virginia Tech campus on Dec. 8, 2011.

An fully armored officer stands guard at Virginia Tech on Dec. 8, 2011.