At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, UCPD confirmed that an officer shot a man at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business earlier in the day after he brandished a gun “in a threatening manner.” 
 
 According to UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya, officers arrived at the business school at 2:19 p.m. in response to a report that someone in the building had a gun. Celaya said at the press conference that after three officers entered a computer lab at the school and approached the suspect, he pulled out the gun and displayed it in a “threatening” way, leading one of the officers to shoot the suspect out of fear for his safety and that of the other officers and students in the lab. He added that at one point there were four students between the suspect and the officers. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said at the press conference that witnesses have reported that they heard the police order the suspect to lower his gun. The suspect, a white man who appeared to be in his 20s and about 5 feet 8, was taken to Highland Hospital, where he was in surgery Tuesday afternoon. Celaya said there is currently nothing to suggest the shooting was related to the day’s Occupy demonstrations. He was also unable to say whether the suspect’s gun was loaded at the time of the incident. According to Birgeneau, police were alerted after a staff member from the building saw what she thought might be a gun in the suspect’s backpack when they were in an elevator together. The school was closed following the incident but was reopened shortly thereafter with the exception of the area where the shooting occurred.
– As students and demonstrators began to gather at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday, a police officer shot an armed man inside a business computer lab on the other side of campus. Police say the suspect, who was taken to a local hospital for surgery, was shot after he "pulled a firearm out of his backpack and displayed it in a threatening manner" in a lab with four students present, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police aren't sure whether the man is a student or whether he is connected to the Occupy Cal demonstrations that drew thousands of protesters to the campus yesterday, the Daily Californian reports. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told a press conference that the "extraordinarily upsetting" incident was the first shooting incident on campus since the 1980s, when a football player was shot outside a campus pub. "Now we are there, along with Kent State and Virginia Tech," he said.