Two dead in shooting on UCLA campus, LAPD confirms

 – Two people are confirmed dead after a shooting Wednesday morning at UCLA, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The school remained on lockdown and the city of Los Angeles is placed on tactical alert following reports of the shooting on the Westwood campus, authorities said.

The gunman is “described as a white male about 6 feet tall,” the Daily Bruin student newspaper wrote on its Twitter feed at 9:20 a.m., adding that the shooting was reported to have occurred at Engineering IV on the school’s Westwood campus.

“Shooter is wearing a black jacket and black pants, according to police,” the Daily Bruin wrote in another post.

The paper also reported that administrators had asked professors to cancel classes and that students were being alerted to the incident by email.
Source: CNN.