Police: Two Dead In Murder-Suicide On UCLA Campus
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A shooting on the UCLA campus was confirmed to be a murder-suicide, said a Los Angeles police chief, who added the campus is now safe.
Two people were shot and killed on the UCLA campus Wednesday.
Cops now checking door to door. Making sure doors are locked? #UCLA #UCLAshooting pic.twitter.com/UALKHGTe6k
— Karaface (@karaleung) June 1, 2016
The campus on the city's west side was locked down, and dozens of officers with the LAPD and the university's police force ran across the campus, some with weapons drawn. At one point, a team in tactical gear stormed into a building, and more than a dozen police cars massed near Boelter Hall, an engineering building.
People emerged from buildings with their hands raised or behind their heads. Police told people to stay away from the campus in a bustling part of the city.
The shooting occurred the week before final exams at the school, the flagship of the University of California system with about 43,000 students.
Many students posted to social media, many to let friends and family know they were safe. Some described frantic evacuation scenes and a large police response. Others wrote that their doors weren't locking and posted photos of items like photocopiers and foosball tables pushed up against them.
Doors open outward with no locks so we had to improvise our own locking mechanism #uclashooting #engineers pic.twitter.com/GAI1OeCSzK
— Pranasha Shrestha (@pranashalovesu) June 1, 2016
The doors open outward and we can't lock them so we are barricading things in front of the door #Ucla #activeshooter pic.twitter.com/KwA3VjqVHh
— Jason Schechter (@Jasonschechter) June 1, 2016
The focus of police activity was a cluster of engineering buildings near the center of a campus that occupies 419 acres in Los Angeles.
At a mathematical sciences building near Boelter Hall, SWAT officers with guns drawn cleared occupants who emerged one by one.
One man walked out with his hands up and was told to get on his knees. An armed officer searched him and his backpack, then sent him on his way with his hands still in the air.
Bioengineering professor Denise Aberle said she could see "a lot of police activity with innumerable cars" and a police helicopter hovering over the engineering building.
"Police keep coming," she said.
Here at in our building at UCLA, we're on lockdown and currently safe. Now there is a citywide tactical alert. pic.twitter.com/EeTC7JhwWr
— Moira (@MoiraKalel) June 1, 2016
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