Late Wednesday afternoon the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed a murder-suicide left two men dead on UCLA’s campus Wednesday.
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A note was found near the dead bodies, but LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said they would not elaborate if it was a suicide note.
No identifications have been released.
CBS News, citing an unidentified police source, said investigators no longer considered it an active shooter situation and that it was believed to be a murder-suicide.
As armed SWAT officers searched the university for signs of the shooter, students filed outside the school with their hands up, knelt to the ground and were searched by police.
Due to the lockdown at the university, police across Los Angeles were placed on tactical alert, according to the LAPD.
Many students posted to social media, many to let friends and family know they were safe.
News station recordings shows dozens of students walking or running out of buildings, escorted by police. These responders included police officers from UCLA, LAPD and Santa Monica College, as well as agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and members of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The buildings are connected by walkway bridges near the center of the 419-acre campus. She said she saw an alert on her phone that warned of police activity near Engineering IV.
The school on the west side of Los Angeles is a flagship of the University of California system, with about 43,000 students. Police are now sweeping the building, looking for a shooter.
Campus media relations officer Rebecca Kendall said Wednesday there are two victims but their conditions are unknown.
“We are getting messages from all over”, she told a Los Angeles Times reporter in a text message.
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William Klug was in an office inside Boelter Hall on the Westwood campus before 10 a.m. when he was reportedly shot and killed by an unidentified student who then took his own life, sources told NBC4. A large number of police and fire units swarmed the campus, and paramedics were seen standing by.
