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		</div><p>Update at 7pm:</p>
<p>A professor has been shot dead in his office at a US university and the campus is on lockdown after reports of a gunman on the loose.</p>
<p>Police has named university employee Shannon Lamb as a &#8220;person of interest&#8221; in the shooting of history professor</p>
<p>The academic died at Delta State University in Mississippi. Officials said he was aged in his mid-50s.</p>
<p>University spokeswoman Jennifer Farish said she was not yet able to identify the man, saying it was still an “active situation.” It is unclear whether anyone else was wounded.</p>
<p>The lockdown began about 10:45 am local time, with the university advising students, faculty and staff to take shelter and stay away from windows.</p>
<p>The university’s Twitter account said the shooter was spotted near Jobe Hall.</p>
<p>State and local law enforcement agencies have responded.<br />
The 3,500-student university is in Cleveland, in Mississippi’s Delta region near the Arkansas-Mississippi state line.</p>
<p>Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said a man who is believed to be the shooter was still at large. He said a description was not immediately available.</p>
<p>“Fortunately for us, our public safety officers and university officials have trained many of us for active shooter situations,” Don Allan Mitchell, an English professor, wrote in a Facebook message to The Associated Press.</p>
<p>“Many students are locked-down in classrooms, and professors and staff members are telling them the protocol. Plus, we are all texting and Facebooking each other to make sure we are safe.”</p>
<p>He said police helicopters were in the air, and officers were sweeping buildings.</p>
<p>However, another English professor, Bill Hays, said the university did a poor job of communicating with faculty, staff and students about the emergency situation.</p>
<p>“It’s really frustrating because there is no campus-wide updating from a central command center. Everything we’re getting is just rumours,” Mr Hays said in a phone call from his office in Keithley Hall, across the street from the shooting site.</p>
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