CSUN library closes due to potential gunman

The Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge was closed last Tuesday after university officials were warned of a possible gunman on campus.

CSUN's Delmar T. Oviatt Library

The man, later identified as Gahren Moradian, a philosophy student, made comments insinuating that he was planning to use a gun in the library at around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. An individual then alerted the police after he or she overheard Moradian. Law enforcement officials then evacuated the library while conducting a thorough search for the suspect, but ultimately found nothing.

Sarkis Mkrtchyan, 24, reported to the Daily Sundial that he saw a man fitting the suspect's description in front of the library screaming that he was "doing a lot, not getting credit for it, and there's no recognition."

Moradian turned himself in at around 8 p.m. Tuesday night and was charged with making criminal threats. He was being held at the L.A. County Central Jail.

The recent weeks have proven tumultuous for students and campus libraries, after a bomb scare evacuated the library at California State University, Long Beach two weeks ago.

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