Three University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty members died this week and another was critically injured when a lone gunman walked onto campus and opened fire in the building housing the business school.

On Friday the university, acknowledging the trauma students and faculty have experienced, canceled on-campus, in-person finals. Instead, faculty and students have flexibility to decide how to end the semester.

The Foundations Counseling Center will facilitate a new support group on Mondays beginning December 11 at 6 p.m. at 8950 W Tropicana Ave, Suite 1.

In a statement released Friday morning, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said there will be no on-campus, in-person final exams for the fall semester. Students will end the semester with their grades earned before Dec. 6.

The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) took a moment of silence to honor the fallen Nevada State Troopers and victims of the UNLV shooting.

Friends and colleagues of the three faculty members who were killed in Wednesday’s shooting on UNLV’s campus came together Friday to share fond memories.

An emotional scene today, as friends paid tribute to the victims.

Their colleagues remembered them Friday at a press conference where UNLV President Keith Whitfield also detailed how the university would wrap up the semester and how it was collectively coping emotionally since what he called the worst day in the school’s history, and where the university police chief identified the officers who took down the suspect.

Slain UNLV professors Naoko Takemaru, Patricia Navarro Velez and Cha-Jan “Jerry” Chang were each remembered fondly by their grief-stricken colleagues Friday.