06-08-2013, 08:31 PM
“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 semiautomatic rifle, carjacks folks, goes to a college, kills more people and has to be killed at the hands of police,” Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said, “I believe that’s premeditated.”
Police will not publicly identify the suspect until his next of kin has been notified, Seabrooks said. She said his relatives could be out of the country.
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BUT, reports from anonymous LE sources have been cited in the media starting a few hours ago:
Law enforcement sources in Washington and Los Angeles identified the shooting suspect as John Zawahri, who was in his 20s. Other law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the suspect had some mental problems in the past and was angry over his parents’ divorce.
These sources said the alleged gunman's first victims were his father and brother, whose bodies were found in a burning home. Police sources said the bodies were those of Samir Zawahri, 55, the owner of the house and Zawahri’s father, and one of his adult sons.
Santa Monica police said they had dealt with the suspect in 2006, including a call to the same address on Yorkshire Avenue, but the specifics of the case could not be discussed because the suspect was a juvenile at the time.
The gunman was connected to Santa Monica College as recently as 2010, police said.
The sources all spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing.
Refs:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...3675.story
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...2879.story
Police will not publicly identify the suspect until his next of kin has been notified, Seabrooks said. She said his relatives could be out of the country.
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BUT, reports from anonymous LE sources have been cited in the media starting a few hours ago:
Law enforcement sources in Washington and Los Angeles identified the shooting suspect as John Zawahri, who was in his 20s. Other law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the suspect had some mental problems in the past and was angry over his parents’ divorce.
These sources said the alleged gunman's first victims were his father and brother, whose bodies were found in a burning home. Police sources said the bodies were those of Samir Zawahri, 55, the owner of the house and Zawahri’s father, and one of his adult sons.
Santa Monica police said they had dealt with the suspect in 2006, including a call to the same address on Yorkshire Avenue, but the specifics of the case could not be discussed because the suspect was a juvenile at the time.
The gunman was connected to Santa Monica College as recently as 2010, police said.
The sources all spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing.
Refs:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...3675.story
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me...2879.story