UCLA Engineering Students MacGyver'd Locks For The Doors During The Active Shooter Campus Lockdown

Gizmodo – UCLA’s campus is on lockdown, with two people dead in what looks like a murder-suicide according to CBS. The shooting reportedly occurred in the Engineering IV building, and people are being told to shelter in place. The biggest problem? Many of the doors in that building don’t have locks. So the engineering students are reinforcing the doors to keep safe.

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Obviously nothing about the events at UCLA yesterday are funny so I say this without an ounce of sarcasm or humor – being a nerd is awesome. And this is just further proof. I see a door that doesn’t have a lock during an active shooter situation, I say “oh, FUCK” and look for the best hiding place. UCLA engineering students literally engineer locks out of chairs, belts, fax machines and overhead projectors. Could have saved everybody’s life in those rooms with some spare power cords and HP printers. Took 2 minutes to use their massive brains to MacGyver an instant door lock. Incredible.

And an update on the story – apparently we found out the motive for the shooter to walk into a college building and murder a professor.

A UCLA student upset over his grades stormed into a campus building Wednesday and fatally shot his engineering professor before killing himself.

The gunman, seen on surveillance video stalking through the campus carrying a long firearm, shot Professor William Klug at around 10 a.m. local time.

The student, whose name was being withheld, was “despondent” over his grades, according to CBS News in Los Angeles.

“Upset about his grades.” Unbelievable.

RIP to Professor William Klug.

Klug, 39, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was recalled fondly by colleagues.

“I am absolutely devastated,” Alan Garfinkel, a professor who worked with Klug, told the LA Times.

“You cannot ask for a nicer, gentler, sweeter and more supportive guy than William Klug.”

Klug was married with two young children. He was a surfer who enjoyed taking his family to LA Dodger games, according to the Times

[h/t Gizmodo, NY Post]