LIVE COVERAGE: Police confirm two dead after shooting on UCLA campus
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Police forces are responding to a shooting at an engineering lab at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Students and faculty at the campus are being told to shelter in place. “Shooting at Engineering 4. Go to secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now!” the university said in a message on Twitter shortly before 10:00 a.m. PT. The shooting was first reported at Boelter Hall.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed two people are dead.
The shooting suspect has been described as a white male wearing a black jacket and black pants, according to the university’s newspaper, The Daily Bruin.
“Sources say suicide note was found near two people down,” Fox 11 News reporter Gigi Graciette tweeted. “Police still treating this as ‘active shooter’ until bldg cleared.”SWAT teams have been spotted on the campus and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also responded.
Mehwish Khan, a UCLA student, told the Los Angeles Times that the “whole campus just started running and I started running too.”
“Everyone was very confused. We got in a building, and no one knew what was going on,” she said.
The Los Angeles Police Department said it was on “city-wide tactical alert.”
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