Crime scene investigators from the Irvine Police Department search for clues at the scene of a fatal shooting in the Verano Place student housing complex at UC Irvine. Brian Benedict, 35, a physics graduate student under suspicion of fatally shooting the mother of their child, Rebecca Benedict, 30, is in custody after the shooting Sunday night. It is the first homicide on the campus. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Students walk at UC Irvine the morning after a graduate student was fatally shot on campus. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Irvine police officers guard the scene of a fatal shooting outside the Verano Place student housing complex at UC Irvine. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Irvine police officers investigate the scene of the fatal shooting. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake, right, listens to details being given by campus police during a news conference concerning the fatal shooting on campus. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Police cordone off the scene of the fatal shooting outside the Verano Place student housing complex at UC Irvine. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
