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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Thursday, June 2, 2016

    Lockdown Lifted

Officers Swarm Campus after UCLA Murder-Suicide

An FBI SWAT team arrives at the scene of a fatal shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Los Angeles.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

C. WEBER                     where students close to        officers, Los Angeles Po-     The response to the shoot-     bystanders to evacuate.
C. ARMARIO                   summer break barricaded        lice Chief Charlie Beck de-   ing was overwhelming:          Groups of officers stormed
Associated Press             themselves in classrooms       clared the threat over. Two   Teams of officers in helmets   into buildings that had
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mur-    as best they could before      men were dead in an of-       and bulletproof vests who      been locked down and
der-suicide at a UCLA engi-  being evacuated with their     fice, and authorities found   were looking for victims       cleared hallways as police
neering building Wednes-     hands up.                      a gun and what might be a     and suspects ran across the    helicopters hovered over-
day drew hundreds of         About two hours after the      suicide note, he said.        normally tranquil campus       head.
heavily armed officers       first 911 call came in around  Authorities did not identify  tucked in the city’s bustling
who swarmed the sprawl-      10 a.m., with the center of    the men, and a motive was     west side. Some with high-         Continued on page 3
ing Los Angeles campus,      campus still saturated with    not immediately clear.        powered rifles yelled for
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