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Deadly Day In Santa Monica: Police Revise Shooting Death Toll To Five, Including Shooter:

Updated Friday, June 7 – 9:30 pm

After a deadly crime spree in the Pico neighborhood that started late Friday morning, Santa Monica Police Department Chief of Police Jacqueline Seabrooks said seven people had died, including the shooter, at a press conference after 4 pm.

However, the death toll has since been revised to five, including the shooter.

The “person of interest” who was taken into custody on Friday afternoon has also been released, with police saying the gunman acted alone.

The start of the deadly crime spree began when residents on the 2500 block of Kansas Avenue heard gun shots late Friday morning in a home at their cross street in the 2000 block of Yorkshire.

“A little before noon my son left the house and then almost immediately I heard gun shots and I ran out because I feared for him,” resident Jerri Cunningham told KTLA5. “Luckily he was gone. There was a guy outside right in front of my place with full SWAT gear, a belt full of ammunition, and a semi-automatic rifle. The first six shots he had fired inside the house or at this house across the street and it was on fire. The first thing I noticed was smoke coming from across the street. He had a bag lying in the street. He glanced up at me. He walked over here to this corner, this intersection. He pointed a gun at a woman in car and told her to pull over, which she did. The woman behind her in a car, he waved her through with a gun, she kind of hesitated and slowed down. He fired three or four shots point blank into her in the car. The car ended up in my driveway. I ran inside to get the phone to call 911. When I came back outside he was getting into the blue car with the first woman. He had thrown a bunch of stuff out the car. They were driving off. We just got towels to put pressure on this woman’s wounds. She is going to be okay. She was talking.”

Cunningham said she recognized the shooter as the son of the man who lived in the house that was on fire.

She said they were a Lebanese family — a father with two sons.

“I’ve heard there are two people deceased inside, I’m guessing it’s the father and the son, they were the only people I saw in the house,” she said. “It’s dilapidated run down house, so it went up in flames really fast.”

The shooter is then suspected of driving towards Santa Monica College — about seven to eight blocks away — where he opened fired on a bus and several cars near the intersection of Pico and Cloverfield.

“The bus came to a stop at a red light,” a witness on the bus told KTLA5. “There was a car honking behind the bus. There was another car parked next to bus. A man got out of the car on the left hand side of bus, the driver side, pulled out a rifle and started firing at the bus. People were screaming and hitting the floor. All of the passengers took immediate cover. There was a lot of panic. There was woman who was hit by a bullet. The shooter was a male wearing black clothing, slightly dark skin.”

The suspect then fled to SMC, opening fire on people, before making his way towards the library.

Seabrooks said there was an exchange of gunfire and the suspect attempted to evade the officers by running onto the college campus.

“As he ran onto campus, additional shots were exchanged,” she said. “The suspect headed toward the library and shot a woman on campus just before entering the library. He accosted a number of patrons inside the library and attempted to shoot at them.Those individuals were able to find a safe location, however, he continued to shoot at them.The officers engaged the suspect and he was shot and killed on the scene.”

Surrounding schools were placed on lockdown while police searched through the campus to ensure there were no other suspects at large.

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