BREAKING: Santa Monica Shooting Spree/College Shooting Leaves 6 dead, Wounded, 2 dead found in house fire nearby.

Updated


Initial reports: Shooter is described as wearing all black fatigues, boots, dressed in full body armor or "standard military garb" and carrying rifle or shotgun. A second shooter is suspected.

Update: First suspect shot and killed by police, two other persons of interest now in custody.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/santa-monica-college-shooting_n_3404689.html


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Note: This happened just blocks from where Obama was attending a Democratic fundraiser.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/07/santa-monica-shooting-takes-place-near-obama-fundraiser/

Damn, already listening to the police scanner.

Possibly three shooters, one now dead, two in custody. Student eyewitness just interviewed on CNN. School victims are all female.

UPDATE: Possible IEDs in library, via police scanner

Reports now of house fire, carjacking and another shooter possibly all linked to Santa Monica College shooting scene, according to KNX 1070

UPDATE: First suspect shot dead by police in school library. House fire victims were killed by first gunmen, were shot and killed and their house set on fire. No word on second suspect who's being questioned. Weapon used in shootings is suspected to be an AR-15 "assault rifle".

Suspect shot and killed by police was white male.

President Obama was three miles away when a shooting began at Santa Monica College, west of Los Angeles, on Friday, June 7, 2013. (Above, President Obama is shown arriving in California earlier.)

Reports say at least four people were injured. One of the hospitalized patients has died. A total of three or four people, at least, including the shooter, apparently are dead.

A man dressed in black walked onto the Santa Monica College campus, dressed all in black and paramilitary, with an assault weapon. Several shots were fired at women, at passing cars, and at a bus near campus. Reportedly two people were killed, also near campus, in a house that was set on fire.

A suspect appears to have been killed.

Therefore, according to the best details, here is the list of incidents and deaths/injuries, all on the campus or nearby:

A bus was fired upon, two people injured.

A house was set on fire, two males found dead in that house.

Gunfire on the campus left three people injured who were taken to a local hospital, one of those people died. Three other people with none gunshot injuries were taken to another medical center. One may have been from shrapnel. None of those three people died.

The dead body of the suspect, who looked like he was a SWAT member, was seen by several eyewitnesses....

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LOL .......mainstream media is starting to focus their attention on the AR-15 used to commit the crimes......we all know how that goes. ........

Police: Gunman planned to kill hundreds in Santa Monica shooting spree

By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer
Posted: 06/08/2013 09:35:15 PM PDT


Surveillance photo of the the suspect in the Santa Monica shooting, who is believed to be John Zawahri (Santa Monica Police Department)


SANTA MONICA -The gunman who launched a shooting spree that left four people dead and injured five others had planned his attack, toting enough ammunition to possibly kill hundreds of people, Santa Monica police said Saturday.

Police declined to identify the former Santa Monica College student, other than to say he left four victims dead and another gravely wounded during a one-mile rampage that ended with the shooter being gunned down by police in the campus library.

Though police would not name the suspect until his family could be notified, he was widely believed to be 23-year-old John Zawahri, a native of Lebanon, who would have turned 24 on Saturday. Police declined to discuss a motive.

Two media outlets reported Saturday that law enforcement officials told them that Zawahri, 23, of Santa Monica was the shooter. It is believed that Zawahri also killed his father and brother, set their house on fire and then began his shooting spree, ending up at San Monica College where he killed a woman outside the library before being shot and killed by police. The Coroner's Office has released only the name of one victim, a college grounds keeper.

"I presume that any time someone puts on a vest of some sort, comes out with a bag full of loaded magazines, has an extra receiver, a handgun, and has a semi-automatic rifle, carjacks folks, goes to a college, kills more people and has to be neutralized at the hands of police -- I would say that that's premeditated," said Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks, before a dozen news cameras.

"We want to express our condolences to the families of those who were killed by this cowardly murderer," said Seabrooks, who declined to discuss his mental history.

Police said he also had a connection to an address in Palms, an area of

Los Angeles, which may be the address of his mother, Randa Abdou.
L.A. Late reported that before Samir Zawahri bought the house 10 years ago, his wife had sought a temporary restraining order against her husband. The domestic violence petition was filed in May 1998, and was still pending.

Two media outlets reported that law enforcement officials said the parents' divorce left John Zawahri angry.

It was at 11:52 a.m. Friday that police received a call about shots fired outside a small bungalow at 2036 Yorkshire Ave., where police say they had a run-in with the suspect in 2006 when he was a juvenile. They declined to discuss the case, because he'd been a juvenile.

A young man in black, bearing a semi-automatic rifle, was reported standing before the home, whose living room was engulfed in flames. Police said Saturday he had a "familial connection" to the house.

Firefighters would later find two men lying dead in a back room of the home but would not identify the victims. The house was owned by Zawahri's father, Samir Zawahri, 55, while his older brother, 25-year-old Chris Zawahri, had once lived there.

When neighbor Tom O'Rourke heard shots, he stepped out of his apartment near Kansas and Yorkshire avenues. He then saw John Zawahri, whom he'd known since he was a kid, waving an assault rifle.

When a woman later identified as Debra Fine stopped her car and yelled at the gunman, he peppered her car with rounds, injuring the 50-year-old woman.

He then carjacked another woman in a Mazda hatchback, forcing her to head west on Pico Boulevard, Seabrooks said, before ordering her to stop at Cloverfield Boulevard.

He then climbed out to fire into a city Big Blue Bus, exploding windows from front to back. He injured two passengers, who were later treated for minor wounds at local hospitals and released. During the fusillade, one bullet tore through a nearby Jiffy Lube.

It was there that Assistant Manager Chris Perez told his mechanics and customers to hit the floor. He counted 22 gunshots.

"This is like the Gaza Strip around here," Perez said. "I didn't expect this in Santa Monica. Maybe Hollywood. Maybe Lynwood. Maybe Tel Aviv. But not in Santa Monica."

The gunman then proceeded toward Santa Monica College, where he fired at a red Ford Explorer at Pearl and 20th streets, on a campus parking lot.

Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, a longtime groundskeeper at Santa Monica College, was killed. His 26-year-old daughter Marcela, a student at Cal State Dominguez Hills, was gravely wounded. She remained in critical condition Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she was not expected to live, Santa Monica College President Chui L. Tsang said.

"Carlos was truly a family man," Tsang said in a statement. "He was a dedicated husband and father and an integral part of the Santa Monica College family "¦ for two decades. He will be sorely missed."

The killer then advanced onto the Santa Monica campus, shooting as he went, before encountering a woman in her 50s in front of the campus library, said Seabrook, who declined to identify the victim.

"He executed her. She later died at a local hospital," Seabrook said.

Said Felix Garcia, who was driving through hauling vegetables from his garden when he saw panicked students, then saw a victim: "I saw someone with blood pouring out of their body. It felt like a war zone."

Police said that the gunman had armed himself for what could have been a long engagement -- a .223-caliber AR-15-style assault rifle, with spare barrel; 20 magazines loaded with 1,300 rounds of ammunition, boxes of extra bullets, and a .44-caliber revolver.

The gunman who had donned an unarmored vest then dropped a large black duffel containing knee pads and extra magazines on a campus walkway, police said. He then strode into the campus library, where he tried to kill several students cowering in a "safe room."

"They stacked items found in the safe room against the door, hunkered down and avoided shots that fired through the drywall at them," Seabrooks said. "It's miraculous that those individuals were not physically injured."

Two Santa Monica police officers and a Santa Monica College officer then exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who fired 70 rounds inside the campus library. He was killed at 12:05 p.m. by multiple gunshot wounds.

The mile-long killing spree lasted 13 minutes.

School officials said students were expected to retrieve their cars and belongings today. Scheduled finals, which were taking place Friday, were to resume Monday.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were analyzing the registration of the shooter's weapons. Anyone who was injured in the spree was asked to call Santa Monica police detectives at 310-458-8449.

"This was not a school shooting scenario, as this incident began off campus," Santa Monica College Police Chief Albert Vasquez said. "It was unfortunate that the suspect chose Santa Monica College to continue the crime spree."



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LOL at "planned to kill hundreds"...........sensationalism much? What bullshit.