3/19 Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- A former University of Central Florida student found dead in his dorm room of an apparent suicide, alongside weapons and a backpack of bombs, planned a larger attack, officials said Monday.
School spokesman Grant Heston identified the student as 30-year-old James Oliver Seevakumaran.
He was at the university from fall 2010 through fall 2012 but was not enrolled for the spring semester and was in the process of being removed from the dorm room where he lived.
"While the crime scene processing was under way in that room, we found some notes and some writings that indicated that this was a planned attack," UCF Police Chief Richard Beary told reporters.
He said Seevakumaran's plan appeared to be set in motion as early as February, when weapons and ammunition purchases were made. Seevakumaran developed an outline for the attack, but that never came to fruition, thanks in part to the rapid response of law enforcement, Beary said.
The chief told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes Seevakumaran built the bombs himself, but authorities were still trying to figure out how Seevakumaran was going to carry out his plan and whom he was going to target.
"It wasn't exactly clear what the attack was going to consist of. However, he did have a time line of how he was getting ready and preparing and then in the end, he would just 'give them hell' is the quote that he used," Beary told CNN.
When police entered the dorm room, they found Seevakumaran dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, a handgun, an assault weapon, a couple hundred rounds of ammunition and four homemade bombs in a backpack.
An Orange County Sheriff's bomb squad team examined the explosives and rendered them harmless. Federal agents have joined the investigation, and the bombs were sent to an FBI lab to determine what materials were used.
It all started around 12:20 a.m., when a fire alarm went off at the Tower 1 dormitory. Beary told CNN that Seevakumaran pulled the fire alarm, perhaps to draw many people out into the open.
Police believe that Seevakumaran then went to his room to pick up the weapons.
There, he encountered one of his roommates, who told police that Seevakumaran pointed a weapon at him. The roommate ran into a bathroom and called 911.
Officers arrived within minutes to rescue the roommate. They found Seevakumaran's body in his bedroom.
Beary said police are still investigating to find out "what made him tick," but early indications were that Seevakumaran had very few friends and had anger issues.
This guy had an assault rifle, OF COURSE, the sexy glamour weapon for assaulting large numbers of people gathered outside in a bunch after a fire alarm was set off by the would-be killer.
Don't you gun guys accept any responsibility for your publicizing and promoting of these mass-killer weapons? These weapons are designed to kill lots of people. That's how the crazies are using them. This is the fault of the gun nuts. These aren't home defense weapons, these are for massacres and all the crazies know it!
You could stop this if you went back to normal home defense, not these huge collections of assault weapons meant to stop a platoon of enemies. Disclaim the assault weapons on the grounds that killing large numbers of people at one time is not something decent Americans are in favor of doing. Now, all you do is root for the killers.