Two Louisiana State University students were found dead late Thursday night in their own campus apartment.  Ph.D. students Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam were both found dead with a single bullet shot to the head.

The victims, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both international Ph.D. students, were found inside an apartment at the Edward Gay complex late Thursday night after authorities received a call seeking medical attention.

Both men had been shot once in the head, said Charles Zewe, an LSU system spokesman. Three men were seen leaving the area, and police were searching for them.

“From what we’re being told, Komma was bound with a computer cable and shot,” Zewe said. “The other man was found near the door.”

My thoughts and prayers go out to the students of LSU and good people of Louisiana.