UPDATED: 3:15 PM EST.
Two men were killed in a murder-suicide on the University of California Los Angeles’ campus Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed. In a press conference, LAPD chief Charlie Beck said that “there are no suspects outstanding and is no continuing threat to UCLA’s campus.”
Police swept Boelter Hall, a building in the school’s engineering complex where the shooting took place, to look for a shooter.
#LAPD News: Official statement regarding the incident at #UCLA. @UCPDLA @UCLABruinAlert @LAMayorsOffice pic.twitter.com/R9VuzQnSSB
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) June 1, 2016
Students were advised to take shelter in a secure location and the entire campus was on lockdown. The UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, located near the campus, was also on lockdown, NBC reported.
BruinAlert: Shooting at Engineering 4. Go to secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now!
— UCLA Bruin Alert (@UCLABruinAlert) June 1, 2016
Federal agents from the ATF and FBI were on the scene, according to CNN, along with a SWAT team and dozens of emergency personnel. The network reported that the LAPD had placed the entire city on a tactical alert, shifting hundreds of officers to the area around the university’s Westwood campus.
BREAKING: ATF responding to #UCLA, agents en route.
— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) June 1, 2016
Over 43,000 students are enrolled at UCLA.
Now is this something that calls for the Good Guy With a Gun? Cause he’s in Memphis trying to enjoy a BBQ bologna sandwich.
Or is it an engineering student shooting his computer monitor cause he’s pissed off at the old Autocad program?
Well, it should be plainly obvious, to anyone paying attention, that every person in every profession in every city and burg throughout the entire United States now needs to create a personal active shooter plan to follow in the ever more likely occurrence that a shooting will manifest either within or adjacent to one’s professional or private life. It’s both sad and terrifying that we have come to this wretched state in America.
Sadly, 528liberal, it’s equally important that parents make sure their own minor children, regardless of age, understand what to do in such emergencies. As the parent of a high schooler, soon to be college student, it’s scary as shit how often this stuff happens in schools and on campuses. Sandy Hook was an example that no child is too young to be at risk…
Another violent incident the NRA will ignore while trying to scare more people into buying more guns.
In all seriousness, I know a number of people who have done just that. Myself included.