Santa Monica suspect was 23-year-old ex-student John Zawahri
LOS ANGELES Police identified the suspect in the Santa Monica shooting that killed five others as a 23-year-old who would have turned 24 on Saturday.
Authorities announced Sunday that the suspect, John Zawahri, and his brother were enrolled at Santa Monica College as early as 2010. Zawahri, who was first identified late Saturday, was killed by police during the gunfight. The shooting began at his father’s house and ended at the college.
Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said the suspected gunman had contact with law enforcement in 2006.
“However, because the individual was a juvenile at the time, I’m not at liberty to discuss circumstances of that contract,” she said.
Marcela Franco, 26, died of her injuries at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Sunday, according to Santa Monica College spokeswoman Tricia Ramos, bringing the victim death toll to five..
Franco had been a passenger in a Ford Explorer driven by her father, campus groundskeeper Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, who also was killed in Friday’s attack.
Investigators trying to determine why the gunman planned the shooting spree were focusing on a deadly act of domestic violence that touched off the mayhem.
The heavily armed man’s attack against his own family led to the violence in Santa Monica streets, lasting just a matter of minutes until he was shot to death in a chaotic scene at the college library by police.
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