BREAKING (12:20 p.m. PST)
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles police chief says the shooting of two men at UCLA was a murder-suicide.
Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday there was no continuing threat and the campus is safe.
The shooting occurred in a small office in an engineering building. The chief says a gun was found along with what might be a suicide note.
No identifications have been released.
EARLIER (10:29 a.m. PST)
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Two people were shot and killed on the UCLA campus Wednesday morning, one possibly being the gunman, according to the UCLA police chief.
However, Chief James Herren says that has not been confirmed.
The chief says an active search remained underway Wednesday to ensure there are no more victims and no outstanding suspects.
A Los Angeles police statement says the dead are male but provides no other identification.
The campus on the city’s west side was locked down, and officers with the LAPD and the university’s police force were running 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.
Two people were confirmed dead, LAPD Officer Aareon Jefferson told The Associated Press.
Campus media relations officer Rebecca Kendall said she did not know the whereabouts of the shooter.
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 of sitting in darkened rooms after barricading doors.
The focus of police activity was a cluster of engineering buildings near the center of a campus that occupies 419 acres in Los Angeles.
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.
Police investigating possible shooter at UCLA’s Boelter Hall. Observe campus wide lockdown.
— UCLA Newsroom (@UCLAnewsroom) June 1, 2016
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— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) June 1, 2016
UCLA campus police are investigating a possible shooting on campus, a university spokesman says https://t.co/B3h4Yj9PIr
— CNN (@CNN) June 1, 2016
#BREAKING: Police report possible shooting on #UCLA campus>>https://t.co/ldVhO0P3Vc #kait8 pic.twitter.com/rU7phozqYf
— Region 8 News (@Region8News) June 1, 2016
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