Murder-suicide on UCLA campus

When they awoke Wednesday morning, most UCLA students headed toward campus expecting to take on routine end-of-school-year tasks: final exams and presentations. Maria Shafer, 22, was trying to finish her Spanish final in the Public Affairs building. Nick Terry was driving to Westwood from Silver Lake expecting to deliver a presentation to his architecture class. All of those concerns became moot around 10 a.m., when cellphones buzzed to life across campus with alerts that a shooting had taken place. ”We need to get out of here,” Shafer’s professor told the class/Los Angeles Times. More here.