One Dead After Westwood Apartment Fire Near UCLA Campus

A man was seen running from the property on Roebling Avenue, police said

A woman identified by neighbors as a fourth-year UCLA student was found dead Monday morning after a fire at an apartment building near the campus.

The fire was reported around 7 a.m., and firefighters rushed to the apartment building in the 10900 block of Roebling Avenue, extinguishing the fire in 15 minutes.

Friends and neighbors identified the woman who lived in the apartment as a Pi Beta Phi sorority member. All sorority and franternity pledge week activities were suspended after the discovery.

Neighbors said her friends were calling the woman's name from outside the fire. They identified her as a woman named Andy.

The woman's parents said they had been in contact with police.

Many of the building's residents are members of the same sorority.

Details regarding a cause of death were not immediately available and the cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Homicide and arson investigators responded to the residence, police said.

A man was seen running from the property, police said. A detailed description of the man, was not immediately available, but a neighbor of the victim said the woman's boyfriend had been at the building.

Earlier in the day, police identified the woman's boyfriend as a person of interest, but later said that was no longer the case.

Miguel De La Cruz, who worked with the woman at a Jamba Juice, described her as friendly and said she’d always "help out in any way she could."

Classes were scheduled to begin Thursday at UCLA.

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