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Law enforcement officers gather on the Delta State University campus to search for an active shooter in connection with a the shooting of history professor Ethan Schmidt in his office in Cleveland, Miss., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The suspect in the shooting has not yet been identified and remains at large. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Law enforcement officers gather on the Delta State University campus to search for an active shooter in connection with a the shooting of history professor Ethan Schmidt in his office in Cleveland, Miss., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The suspect in the shooting has not yet been identified and remains at large. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
By MyFoxMemphis
Sept 15, 2015

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Classes are cancelled for the remainder of the day and tonight.
Delta State is clearing all buildings on campus, according to their Twitter. Delta State says they are clearing campus to ensure safety of students and employees.  
Bolivar County Coroner's Office tells FOX13 they are investigating death of Delta State professor, next of kin has not been notified yet.

1:12 p.m.: Law enforcement sources tell FOX13 they are looking for a professor who they believe is the shooter at Delta State.

12:47 p.m.:

Delta State University remains on lockdown while authorities are searching the buildings.

Bill Hays, an English professor at Delta State University, says a SWAT team checked his office Monday while looking for the shooter. Another professor, Don Allan Mitchell, says officers were sweeping buildings as helicopters circled overhead.

Murray Roark, a deputy coroner in Bolivar County, says the professor killed Monday in an office inside Jobe Hall was a white man in his 50s.

12:34 p.m.:

FOX13 has learned that two people have been confirmed dead. One was shot on campus and another off campus.

Bolivar Sheriff's Office tells FOX13 that Jobe Hall and Broom Hall are being evacuated.  Both halls are near the shooting scene.

12:04 p.m.:

According to the Bolivar Commercial newspaper all schools in the area are on lockdown while investigators continuing searching for a possible gunman who police say shot and killed a professor at Delta State University Monday morning.

According to the newspaper's Twitter the Miss. Highway Patrol has helicopters over campus right now.

11:45 a.m.:

Bolivar Deputy Coroner confirms professor killed at Delta State University.

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Bolivar newspaper reporting university confirms one fatality, asking students to stay away from windows.

MHP, Cleveland Police and Bolivar Sheriff's Department are on campus.

School remains on lockdown.

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The 3,500-student university is in Cleveland, in Mississippi's Delta region near the Arkansas-Mississippi state line.

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10:54 a.m.

Delta State University tells FOX13 they are currently on lockdown while the school is investigating an active shooter situation.

Delta State tweeted the following:

SCHOOLCAST: An active shooter has been spotted on campus near Jobe Hall. Please take immediate lock down action.


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