UCF Chief of Police: 'This was a planned attack...'

8:04 PM, Mar 18, 2013   |    comments
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Chief of UCF Police Richard Beary describes the UCF student found dead in a dorm on campus.

He said the dead student was planning a campus attack.

A University of Central Florida spokesman says it appeared that the student committed suicide.

UCF Spokesman Grant Heston says that materials found in the dorm room made it appear that a wider attack was planned.

Police say he pulled a gun on another student, who then called police.

Heston says the university was in the process of removing the 30-year-old student from the dorm before Monday.

Campus Police Chief Richard Beary say four makeshift explosive devices were found in a back pack.

Beary says he believes that the dead student pulled a fire alarm in the dorm to get other students out in the open for an attack.

The student was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound with guns and the explosives.

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