Content warning: Death<\/p>\n
Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, UCPD and the Berkeley Fire Department responded to a death outside of Norton Hall of Unit 3.<\/p>\n
Campus spokesperson Adam Ratliff confirmed in a statement that a person died near campus housing tonight, and added that due to privacy laws and university policies, campus cannot comment on confidential student matters.<\/p>\n
As of press time, the exact nature of the death, the identity of the person and whether they were a student remains unclear.<\/p>\n
The main entrance of Norton Hall is closed off as of press time, but some people are being let into the building, as witnessed by reporters with The Daily Californian.<\/p>\n
UCPD and the Berkeley Fire Department have not responded to requests for comment as of press time.<\/p>\n
Ratliff wrote that counseling services are available at Counseling and Psychological Services for the campus community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are saddened by this tragic news and wish to extend our condolences to this person\u2019s family and friends,\u201d Ratliff wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n
Alice Conry, Cam Lippincott and Jackson Woodward contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content warning: Death Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, UCPD and the Berkeley Fire Department responded to a death outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[52563,21375,120497,143,145,144,14759,52568],"class_list":["post-279789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-adam-ratliff","tag-berkeley-fire-department","tag-norton-hall","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-ucpd","tag-unit-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}