Virginia Tech's student news media outlet is reporting that 32 people are confirmed dead in today's rampage by a lone gunman. The event is the deadliest shooting at a school or university in American history and the second worst mass-murder at a place of education.

• Virginia Tech student media
• Blogger familiar with campus who includes eyewitness account from Roanoke Times, whose website has been swamped this afternoon
• CNN
• Fox
• MSNBC
• Official information from the university here and here
• Map showing sites of shootings

Historical context:

• The 1927 Bath School disaster in Michigan (45 dead)
• Columbine
  2002's Erfurt massacre in Germany
• The killing of 16 children and a teacher by a gunman in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996
• Charles Whitman's Texas Tower killing spree, 1966