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. 
 
 There have been no other reported injuries. 
 
 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 was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland. He was conscious when he was transported out of the school, according to Celaya. 
 
 Celaya said there is currently nothing to suggest the shooting was related to the day’s Occupy demonstrations. Shortly after the shooting, UCPD Lt. Alex Yao called the shooting an “isolated incident.” 
 
 Celaya could not confirm the suspect’s motivation, identity or student status but said he was described as a 5-foot-8-inch white male in his 20s wearing blue jeans and a blue jacket. He was also unable to say whether the suspect’s gun was loaded at the time of the incident. 
 
 “I cannot tell you how sorry I am that we are having this press conference,” Birgeneau said at the 4 p.m. conference. 
 
 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. 
 
 It is possible that there was a camera present in the room during the shooting, though it is unclear whether it was functioning, according to Celaya. 
 
 Birgeneau said the last shooting on campus he could remember occurred in the 1980s. 
 
 “Now we are there, along with Kent State and Virginia Tech,” he said at the conference. 
 
 The school was closed following the incident but was reopened shortly thereafter with the exception of the area where the shooting occurred. 
 
 Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Javier Panzar of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. 
 
 Sarah Burns is the lead crime reporter. ||||| A UC Berkeley police officer shot and wounded a man brandishing a gun in a computer lab at the Haas School of Business on Tuesday. Four students were in the computer lab when the shooting occurred, but no one was hurt. 
 
 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. University officials said they did not know if the suspect was a student. The man was conscious when he was taken to the hospital. 
 
 The suspect entered the business school Tuesday afternoon, entering an elevator with a female employee from the school, UC police Chief Mitch Celaya said at a news conference. The man pressed the button for the third floor and the woman for the fifth floor. 
 
 The suspect then looked at the woman, pulled out what appeared to be a gun from a backpack and put it back. After leaving the elevator, the staff member told her boss and both went to the computer lab. They saw the suspect there and called police. 
 
 Police received a 911 call at 2:17 p.m. and three officers responded two minutes later. 
 
 The suspect then "pulled a firearm out of his backpack and displayed it in a threatening manner," Celaya said. He said the officers told the man to drop his weapon. When he didn't, one of the officers fired. Police would not say how many shots were fired. 
 
 When police showed up, the students were in between the officers and the gunman. "It appears our students' lives might have been at risk," Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau said. 
 
 Police would not say whether the suspect's gun was loaded. 
 
 Asked if there was any connection between the incident and the Occupy Cal protest, Celaya said: "We don't know. We're looking into that matter. There is nothing to suggest it is the case." 
 
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 Photo: Students and faculty sitting outside the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Credit: Jeff Chiu / Associated Press
– 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.