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DEARBORN, MICH. (AP) -- UPDATE 4:30PM - Two Michigan community college students are dead in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

The bodies of a 28-year-old man and 20-year-old woman were discovered in a room at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn after police responded to a call of a gunshot on campus.

As officers entered the MacKenzie Fine Arts Center, they heard another gunshot.

Deputy Police Chief Gregg Brighton says the man used a shotgun to kill the woman and then turned the gun on himself.

A school official says alerts were sent through an e-mail and cell phone system and the campus was locked down.

A 12-year-old who attends a theater program in the building says he heard a gunshot and "saw someone getting pulled back into the room they were in."

He and others ran into a parking lot at the adjacent University of Michigan-Dearborn campus

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UPDATE 2:58PM -  Police say two people have been killed in what they believe was a murder-suicide at a community college in Dearborn.

Deputy Police Chief Gregg Brighton says Henry Ford Community College was locked down in the early afternoon Friday shortly after a 911 caller reported shots were fired.

Responding officers set up a perimeter around the fine arts building and heard a gunshot as they entered.

Brighton says police discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a room. He says he didn't think it was being used at the time.

The lockdown has been lifted.

Brighton says a shotgun was used in the killings.

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UPDATE 2:27PM - A Michigan community college has been locked down because of a gunman on campus.

A woman who answered the phone in the president's office at Henry Ford Community College on Friday told The Associated Press that police have secured the area but there was a gunman at the Dearborn school. She declined to give her name.

Twelve-year-old Christian Plonka says he was in the college's MacKenzie Fine Arts Center when he heard a gunshot. He and others participating in a theater program ran to the adjacent University of Michigan-Dearborn campus until police gave the all-clear.

Dearborn police and the campus security say they are dealing with an emergency and are unable to provide any information.

An on-campus news conference is planned for later Friday.

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Broadcasters are reporting that a Michigan community college is on lockdown because of a gunman on campus.

A woman who answered the phone in the president's office at Henry Ford Community College Friday told The Associated Press that police have secured the area but there was a gunman at the Dearborn school.

Dearborn police and the campus security say they are dealing with an emergency and are unable to provide any information.

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