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As many as seven dead, including gunman, in shooting rampage near Los Angeles
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News
As many as six people were killed and two to three others injured Friday when a gunman clad in black went on a rampage through Santa Monica, Calif., before being shot to death in the library of a community college, authorities said. Another person, described as a "person of interest," was in custody, they said.
The shootings took place just three miles away from where President Barack Obama was scheduled to attend a fundraising event. The Secret Service said the incident was believed to be unrelated to the president’s visit. They said they had not yet identified the gunman or established a motive for the bloodshed.
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Santa Monica Police Department Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said that investigators were combing as many as three crime scenes as the assailant cut a violent path from a private residence on a suburban block to a library on the campus of Santa Monica College, a two-year school just a short drive away from the Pacific Ocean.
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