Santa Barbara: A gunman sprayed bullets from a car in a drive-by shooting in a southern California college town, killing at least six people before his car crashed and he was found dead inside.
<img title="A video grab of the car used in the drive-by shooting in southern California. Pic/AFP" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/jul/California.jpg" alt="A video grab of the car used in the drive-by shooting in southern California. Pic/AFP" /> A video grab of the car used in the drive-by shooting in southern California. Pic/AFP
Seven more people were wounded in what the Santa Barbara County Sheriff described as a premeditated atrocity by a &lsquo;madman&rsquo; in the town of Isla Vista near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. &ldquo;This incident appears to be a mass murder situation,&rdquo; said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown.
Witnesses reported seeing a black BMW speeding through the streets and spraying bullets at people and other targets in Isla Vista, a beachside community where many college students live. 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.
&ldquo;We are analysing the written and videotaped evidence that suggests this atrocity was a premeditated mass murder,&rdquo; Brown said, describing the shooting as &ldquo;obviously the work of a madman&rdquo;. Brown could not immediately say whether the suspected gunman was killed by deputies in the exchange of fire or died of a self-inflicted wound, nor did he identify the gunman or say whether he was a student.

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