Shooting leaves 3 dead and 2 critically wounded
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June 21, 2010, Monday
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A man opened fire on his stepdaughter's family inside a California restaurant on Saturday, killing her husband and six-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatally shooting himself, police said.
The man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino at about 1pm, walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages five and six, Lieutenant Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range," Burguan said.
The woman's husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the six-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.
The woman and the five-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims and the shooter weren't released.
The woman's mother who was married to the gunman died several years ago, and investigators were probing what ties the gunman and his stepdaughter may still have had as they sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.
Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.
Owners of nearby shops said horrified patrons ran out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.
"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."
The man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino at about 1pm, walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages five and six, Lieutenant Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range," Burguan said.
The woman's husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the six-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.
The woman and the five-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims and the shooter weren't released.
The woman's mother who was married to the gunman died several years ago, and investigators were probing what ties the gunman and his stepdaughter may still have had as they sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.
Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.
Owners of nearby shops said horrified patrons ran out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.
"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."
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