Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm in Tower 1 around 12:20 a.m., and planned to attack other students as they tried to escape. Shortly after that, he decided not to kill others, instead taking his own life after he went back into his dorm room. Seevakumaran may have pulled a gun on one of his roommates who then escaped and called 911, reports the Sentinel.
In the Seevakumaran's room, authorities found a .45-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber tactical rifle, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade explosives in a backpack, reports the
New York Daily News
. Campus police, the FBI, and the
Orange County Sheriff's
bomb squad responded to the scene.