The gunman who killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech University car park last night has been found dead nearby.

A UNIVERSITY in the US was again the scene of a fatal shooting yesterday after a gunman shot dead a police officer and then apparently killed himself.

A gunman shot dead a police officer and then apparently killed himself at Virginia Tech today, US police and school officials said.

Two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a shooting on the US’s Virginia Tech university campus, scene of America’s worst gun massacre four years ago.