Gunman killed six people in california
Santa Monica: A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday.
Obama completed his remarks at the event without interruption and left town for a planned summit near Palm Springs with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Secret Service called the shootings a ‘local police matter’.
The rampage began east of Santa Monica College shortly before noon as police received multiple reports of a house fire, a carjacking and shootings in the area.
The bodies of two people were discovered at the fire scene and four more bodies were found at two other locations between the burning home and the college, police said.
Police exchanged gunfire with the suspect outside the college and pursued him into a library, where he was shot and killed, Seabrooks said.
She said the exact sequence of events remained under investigation and authorities had no known motive for the rampage.
One student inside the library, Cyrus Jabari, 19, said he could see through a window a man dressed in black with a buzz-style haircut carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle.
