Police hunt suspect in US university campus shooting

Washington, US - Police were hunting on Monday the suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded on a university campus in the US state of Virginia, authorities said.

The main campus of the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville was locked down while helicopters and

police searched for a man considered to be ‘armed and dangerous’, the UVA Office of Emergency Management tweeted.

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, a student at the university, was suspected to have car

ried out the shooting on campus, UVA president Jim Ryan said in a statement.

“This is a traumatic incident for everyone in our community, and we have cancelled classes for today,” Ryan said.

Counseling and psychological support would be made available to students and faculty, he said.

Meanwhile, police in the state of Idaho were investigating a separate incident on Monday in which four students were found dead in a home near another university campus, believed to be ‘the victims of homicide.’