Two killed and campus on lockdown after UCLA shooting

Police officer Aareon Jefferson said police investigations were still ongoing on the scene at UCLA after the Wednesday morning’s shooting.

Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck confirmed one man shot another and then himself on Wednesday in the engineering building and that police recovered a gun at the scene.

The shooter has not yet been identified, but according to a report by Aljazeera, a law-enforcement official said the victim was a mechanical engineering professor by the name of William S Klug. He was shot in the engineering building office on Wednesday morning, according to the official who has knowledge of the investigation but was not authorised to publicly discuss it."There are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to UCLA's campus," Beck said.

Police recovered what may turn out to be a suicide note, he said.

"The campus remains on lockdown," UCLA's office of media relations said in an online posting.

"I was in Boelter Hall to take a final and I exit the staircase to see SWAT-looking police yelling at everyone to evacuate immediately," Bahjat Alirani, a bioengineering student, told the Reuters news agency.

"I check my email and BruinAlert had immediately sent an email to all students notifying them of a shooter in the engineering building."