UC Berkeley Business Student Shot by Police Dies in Hospital

A UC Berkeley business student who was shot by police Tuesday afternoon in a computer room at the Haas School of Business has died of his wounds at Highland Hospital, university spokesman Dan Mogulof confirmed. Officials identified the man as Christopher Nathen Elliot Travis, a 32-year-old undergraduate transfer student studying business.

"We're very saddened by this new information," said Claire Holmes, another university spokesperson. Grief counselors are at the school to talk with students, Holmes said.

Travis was allegedly carrying a gun in his backpack. The gun was spotted by a staff member and police were alerted. Officers say they found Travis in a third floor computer room inside the Haas building and requested multiple times that he put down the gun. Travis did not comply, according to UC Berkeley Police Chief Mitch Celaya. Officers, "fearing for their lives," shot Travis. At least four other students were in the room at the time, according to officials. 

Travis died Tuesday night in Highland Hospital. 

Celaya said the shooting was the first on the campus since a shooting at the Bear's Lair pub in the 1980s.

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Bay City News contributed to this report.