UCLA Shooting
Two people were shot and killed on the UCLA campus Wednesday, prompting a campus-wide lockdown and forcing hundreds of terrified students to hide in buildings.
UCLA Police Chief James Herren said he did not know whether the two males killed were students or staff members. Both were found inside an engineering building.
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Authorities had received reports of an active shooter in near the building, Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im said.
Herren said it’s not clear whether one of the two deceased was the shooter.
Officials put the campus on lockdown as authorities investigated the incident. Large groups of police with long guns patrolled the streets of the campus of more than 40,000 students.
SWAT officers and dozens of squad cars filled the area as police tried to clear campus buildings floor by floor.
Freshman Teddi Mattox said students were getting breakfast when the shooting occurred.
“We got the alert and a woman said, ‘This is not a joke, everyone get to the back of the dining hall because we have to stay away from the windows’
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“We’re crowded back here, we’ve been here for at least an hour and a half. People are crying, they’re nervous, they’re shaking. ”
Agents from the FBI and the Tobacco, Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Explosives also were headed to the scene. And if an active shooter is on campus, police face an exceptional challenge.UCLA’s final exams are scheduled for next week, with graduation set for Friday.
“So far we don’t know the nature of the shooting,” Police Official Tom Fuentes said.
“If it’s a personal thing between a couple of students, then it will be a local police matter.
If by chance it turned into a terrorist situation, then the FBI would have primary justification over that.”
Los Angeles police issued a citywide tactical alert, meaning officers on duty will be extended.
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