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POLICE have identified two Delaware State University students as person's of interest as the hunt continues for a gunman who shot and wounded two students on the American campus overnight.
The shooting prompted a swift campus lockdown as police hunted for the gunman.
Students at the school in the city of Dover were told to stay in their dormitories and classes were cancelled for the day, the school said in an early morning statement.
Virginia Tech University administrators were criticised for not reacting swiftly following the April shooting when student Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and then killed himself in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
University spokesman Carlos Holmes said a male suspect was still at large after the shooting which occurred at 12:54am (2:54pm AEST) near a sports centre. He had no information about who the assailant was or what his motive might be.
"We have directed the student population to stay in their dormitories for their own safety. If we see students out and about we are going to tell them to move inside," Mr Holmes said.
One of the students was a female who had "potentially life-threatening" injuries, while the other, a male, was in "stable condition," at a local hospital, he said. He told CNN the female student was shot twice and the male once.
Alex Bishoff, 20, a university student, said he was working in his ground floor dormitory room when he heard five gunshots. He said that about 15 minutes later authorities told students to remain in their rooms.
"I heard shots on the campus and immediately I started thinking about the Virginia Tech thing," said Mr Bishoff, who had not been stopped from leaving his room to get something to eat.
"Everybody's very upset, mad; this is absurd."
He said the wounded female student was a "sweet girl" from Washington DC but declined to give her name.
Another student at the university, Devin Jackson, 17, said that he heard the gunshots and shortly afterward saw the male victim lying on the ground.
"There were not a lot" of gunshots, he said, without giving further details.
The campus was still mourning the execution-style killing of three students in their hometown of Newark, New Jersey in August. A fourth student was wounded in that incident.
The university alerted students to the incident by telephone, their website and by flyers, a statement said. It added that until the suspect was apprehended, students, faculty and staff were being directed to remain in their buildings.
Students and staff who were not on the campus were told to stay away until further notice. The university directed nonessential personnel not to report to work.
"I don't think any institution in the country did not learn from Virginia Tech and we certainly did," Mr Holmes said on CNN when asked about decision to lock down the campus.
Founded in 1891, the historically black university has about 3300 undergraduate students on a 160ha residential campus about 160km northeast of Washington, DC.
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