On Wednesday morning shortly before 10 AM, a murder-suicide claimed the lives of two men on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
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“We tied the bathroom door hinges with belts to keep the door closed because there were no locks”.
The campus is on lockdown.
Students posted photos and video of the makeshift security on social media, sparking questions over safety on the campus. “We knew that somebody eventually could come”, he said, acknowledging the terror he felt. Andy Neiman, the LAPD’s chief spokesman, confirmed a note was found at the scene, but investigators had not determined whether it was connected to the shooting, the Los Angeles Times reported.
UCLA, with more than 43,000 students, is in the Westwood section of Los Angeles and one of the more well-regarded schools in the University of California system, known for its successful sports program.
A helicopter hovers over the University of California’s Los Angeles campus in Los Angeles, the United States on June 1, 2016.
“But our doors open outward so it was very hard to try to lock it because it didn’t have a lock”, said UCLA student Lauren Robinson.
The Wednesday shooting took place inside UCLA’s engineering complex in a small office. WHAT A MOTHER WHOSE CHILD FELL INTO A GORILLA EXHIBIT SAID IN A FRANTIC 911 CALL The boy’s mother pleaded for help while repeatedly shouting at her son: “Be calm!” 6.
UCPD Lt. Richard Davis said students told UCPD they heard a loud noise and gun shellings drop.
Franke said in 2005 that one of the best resources to help colleges is a report produced in 2002 by the U.S. Education Department and the Secret Service, prompted by the 1999 killings at Columbine High School.
Chief of the Los Angeles Police department, Charlie Beck said, “The method of suicide is gunshot wound. He was the guy everyone went to when they had grievances, which is why this is so shocking”, Giroux said.
The Daily Bruin, the UCLA student-run newspaper, reports that police are saying the shooter was wearing a black jacket and black trousers.
Universities should change the locks on any door that can not be locked from the inside, she said.
“He didn’t want to see her fail”.
“The whole campus just started running and I started running, too”, Mehwish Khan, a 21-year-old student who hid in the library, told the Los Angeles Times. An armed officer searched him and his backpack, then sent him on his way with his hands still in the air.
Thousands of students taking final exams hid in classrooms during the lockdown that ensued.
Scott Waugh, an executive vice chancellor and provost at the school, told reporters that university officials were troubled by some reports of unlocked doors.
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Klug was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, according to his biographical page on the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s website.
