Seven people have died after a series of drive-by shootings in California.

A lone gunman sprayed bullets from a car in the town of Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California in Santa Barbara, late on Friday night.

Six people were killed, before the gunman crashed his car and was found dead inside. Another seven people were wounded.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown described the killings as a premeditated atrocity, adding: "This incident appears to be a mass murder situation."


Xavier Mozejewsky told local TV station KEYT-TV the scene was like an "old western shoot-out". While college student Brad Martin told a University of California at Santa Barbara student newspaper that his girlfriend was "absolutely hysterical" after being approached by the gunman with a weapon she initially was not sure was real.




