BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A man with a gun was shot by police Tuesday inside the business school at the University of California, Berkeley, after hundreds of students and anti-Wall Street activists descended on the campus for a day of protests.
The shooting occurred at the Haas School of Business on the east side of campus, less than a half-mile away from the protest site.
Ute Frey, a spokeswoman for the university, said officials did not yet know whether the suspect was part of the Occupy Cal movement.
"I just hope it wasn't from the protest or the movement, because that's not what the movement is about," said Sadia Saif, a 19-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore.
University officials said a female staff member saw a man carrying what appeared to be a gun in an elevator at the business school after 2 p.m. The staff member called police at 2:17 p.m., saying she saw the man remove the gun from a backpack.
Police said they arrived at 2:19 p.m. and had to locate the suspect in the building. Officers found the suspect in a third-floor computer room where there were at least four students, university officials said.
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