Thanks to a phone call and training, five employees quickly evacuated the University Credit Union branch near a shooting that claimed the lives of two men on UCLA's campus the morning of June 1.
Just minutes before the campus was placed on lockdown, the branch manager's brother, who works at UCLA, heard about the shooting and called UCU's UCLA branch in the Ackerman Student Union, which is about 400 feet from the university's engineering building where the apparent murder-suicide took place.
Relying on their training, the employees quickly locked up the branch and left in an employee's car. They drove to a nearby parking lot at a shopping mall where they met Branch Manager Julio Macias, who was off campus at the time of the incident. The employees then drove to UCU's main office on Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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