No Gun Control? 14 California Mass Murder Victims Saturday

At least seven people died and another seven injured in a mass murder shooting in a southern California college town on Saturday. 

A lone gunman sprayed bullets from a car in a drive-by shooting, killing at least six people and himself when his car crashed, authorities said on Saturday.

Seven more people were wounded in what the Santa Barbara County Sheriff described as a premeditated atrocity late on Friday in the town of Isla Vista near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, according to Reuters.

“This incident appears to be a mass murder situation,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told a televised news conference.

“We currently have seven people confirmed dead, that includes the suspect and six victims.”

Witnesses reported a black BMW speeding through streets, spraying bullets at people and other targets in Isla Vista, a beachside community where many college students live, California’s KEYT-TV reported. Xavier Mozejewski told the station the incident was like an “old western shoot-out.”

College student Brad Martin said his girlfriend was “absolutely hysterical” after being approached by the gunman with a weapon she initially was not sure was real.

“She said the next second he raised it up to her face … and she turned around and started running. That’s when she heard ‘bang, bang, bang’ right behind her as she was running,” Martin told the Daily Nexus, a college newspaper.

The sheriff said deputies twice exchanged fire with the gunman before his vehicle crashed and he was found dead inside from a gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities recovered a semiautomatic handgun, he said.

“We have obtained and are currently analyzing both written and videotaped evidence that suggests this atrocity was a premeditated mass murder,” Brown said, describing the shooting as the “obviously the work of a madman.”

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