7 people dead as gunman goes on rampage in US
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A GUNMAN sprayed bullets from a car, killing six people, in a drive-by shooting in a southern California college town before his car crashed and he was found dead inside, authorities said yesterday.
Seven other people were wounded in what the Santa Barbara County Sheriff described as a premeditated atrocity late on Friday in the town of Isla Vista near the University of California at Santa Barbara campus.
“This incident appears to be a mass murder situation,” Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference.
“We have seven people confirmed dead. That includes the suspect and six victims.”
Officials did not identify the suspect.
The sheriff said authorities were investigating a video on YouTube that appeared to have been made by the suspect.
“It would appear that is connected,” Brown said.
The video shows a young man who says he is a 22-year-old virgin complaining bitterly and repeatedly that women have rejected him.
“I will have my revenge against humanity,” he says, vowing to retaliate with a mass slaughter of college students and Isla Vista residents. “I will punish all of you for it.”
About 10 minutes elapsed between the first 911 calls to emergency services and the gunman being found dead in his car, the sheriff said.
Witnesses reported seeing a black BMW speeding through the streets and spraying bullets at people and other targets in the beachside community.
Brown could not immediately say whether the suspected gunman was killed by deputies in an exchange of fire or died of a self-inflicted wound.
Witness Xavier Mozejewski said the incident was like an “old Western shoot-out.”
Student Brad Martin told a University of California at Santa Barbara student newspaper that his girlfriend was “hysterical” after being approached by the gunman with a weapon she initially was not sure was real.
“She said the next second he raised it up to her face ... and she turned around and started running. That’s when she heard ‘bang, bang, bang’ right behind her as she was running.”
The sheriff said deputies twice exchanged fire with the gunman before his car crashed and he was found inside, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. A semiautomatic handgun was recovered, he said.
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