Santa Monica Gunman Planned Attack, Had Rifle & 1,300 Rounds of Ammunition
The gunman who went on a chaotic rampage killing four people before being fatally shot by police at a college campus planned the attack and was capable of firing 1,300 rounds of ammunition, the police chief said Saturday.
“Any time 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,” said Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks.
The killer would have turned 24 on Saturday, but Seabrooks wouldn’t identify him because his next of kin was out of the country. Police had an encounter with him seven years ago, but she wouldn’t elaborate because he was a juvenile at the time.
The chief spoke near a display of weapons and ammo recovered from Santa Monica College where the killings ended Friday when police gunned him down in the library, where students were studying for finals.
Among items on display were surveillance photos of a man in black entering the library with an assault-style rifle by his side.
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