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Gunman Kills 5 in Santa Monica Rampage

HeadlineJun 10, 2013

Six people are dead after Friday’s shooting rampage in Santa Monica, California. The suspect, John Zawahri, reportedly set fire to his family’s home and shot dead his father and brother. Police say he then hijacked a car and opened fire on the campus of Santa Monica College, killing three others. Several other people were also wounded. Zawahri was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, an automatic weapon similar to what was used in the Newtown school massacre. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said police recovered more than 1,300 rounds of ammunition.

Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks: “If all of the magazines that we collected were in fact loaded fully, something in the order of about 1,300 rounds — and that is an estimation — 1,300 rounds could have been fired had there not been an interdiction and that person neutralized at an appropriate time. I would presume that anytime someone puts on a vest of some sort, comes out with a bag full of loaded magazines, has an extra receiver, has 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 the police, I would say that that’s premeditated.”

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