John Zawahri Identified As Santa Monica, CA Shooter

Shooting rampage killed four — he was angry at parents divorce

SANTA MONICA, CA – The gunman who killed four people in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica before he was slain by police at a community college in the California seaside town was once a student there and had a brush with the law several years ago as a teenager, police said on Saturday. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks also revealed that several students at the college survived Friday’s shootings by hiding in an interior room of the library and piling up heavy objects against the door as the gunman fired through the walls at them. Seabrooks detailed how the gunman, after killing two people identified by a law enforcement source as his father and brother and apparently setting their house on fire, went on to carjack a woman’s automobile, ordering her at gunpoint to drive him from place to place as he fired at other individuals. READ MORE HERE

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What We Know So Far About John Zawahri

Santa Monica shooting suspect, possible motive identified

11 John Zawahri Photos – The Santa Monica College Gunman

• Four plus Zawahri are dead after the former Santa Monica College student killed his father and brother, set fire to their home, and hijacked a car from which he fired multiple rounds
• One victim ID’d as Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, and Franco’s daughter Marcela, 25, on life support in ‘grim condition’
  
• Footage clearly shows a large rifle in the hand of John Zawahri’s as he enters the school’s library