Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in US history got another scare this morning as police in commando gear with weapons drawn swarmed the building which houses the president’s office.

The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner known as “the question mark kid”, who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing.

The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people, including himself, dead was identified today as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school’s counselling service.