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# Key events in shooting rampage
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/key-events-in-shooting-rampage/
- Published: 2013-06-08T17:38:57.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:07:16.000Z
- Author: Kevin Herrera
- Tags: Featured, News, fire department, Santa Monica Fire Department, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:37

![Security cameras capture the shooting suspect entering the Santa Monica College Library. (Image courtesy of Santa Monica Police Department)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/55/9f/559f9abc-8372-4a2e-8c2d-27386da4e363/content/images/smdp-com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2024/07/061013-shooting-3-scaled.jpg)

Security cameras capture the shooting suspect entering the Santa Monica College Library. (Image courtesy of Santa Monica Police Department)

Key moments in a shooting rampage Friday that killed at least four people in Santa Monica, before a gunman was shot and killed by police in the Santa Monica College Library. Based on reports from witnesses, police, and fire, college and hospital officials.

— At 11:52 a.m. PDT, firefighters respond to a blaze at a house about a mile from Santa Monica College. Two people are eventually found dead in the burned house. Two officials tell The Associated Press the victims are the gunman's father and brother.

— The gunman shoots and injures one person driving by, then carjacks another vehicle, having a woman give him a ride at gunpoint.

— The gunman shoots at a public bus at a nearby intersection, leaving three people with minor injuries.

— At about noon, shots are heard around the campus of Santa Monica College. The campus and two nearby schools are locked down. Witnesses see a man dressed in black wearing cargo pants and a ballistic vest shoot at a red SUV with a semi-automatic rifle. The driver is hit in the torso and the car accelerates across the street into a wall. The driver dies. One passenger is critically injured.

— The gunman exchanges gunfire with college and city police. He moves on to the 38-acre campus, making his way toward the library.

— The gunman shoots a woman outside the library. She dies about three hours later at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

— Shortly after noon, the suspect walks into the library, where he exchanges gunfire with police and is wounded. He is carried to a sidewalk, where he dies.