Serangkaian Tembakan Tewaskan 4 Warga di selatan California
Multiple Shootings Kill 4 in southern California
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Los Angeles (B2B) - Empat orang tewas dan beberapa orang lagi cedera ketika seorang pria bersenjata melepaskan tembakan secara membabi-buta di beberapa lokasi di Orange County, Southern California, Selasa (19/2), demikian laporan media lokal.
Tersangka itu diidentifiksi sebagai Ali Sayed, pria yang berusia 20 tahun dan tak memiliki catatan tindak kejahatan. Ia bekerja, tinggal di rumah bersama orang-tuanya dan belajar di Saddleback College, kata laporan tersebut --yang mengutip keterangan pemerintah setempat.
Menurut Jim Amormino dari Departemen Sheriff`s Orange County, peristiwa itu terjadi sekitar pukul 04.45 waktu setempat (19.45 WIB), ketika seorang perempuan ditembak hingga tewas di satu rumah di Ladera Ranch.
Tersangka melarikan diri dari lokasi dengan mengendarai SUV, dan tampaknya berusaha merampas sejumlah kendaraan di daerah Tustin, kata polisi lokal.
Ali Sayed mengendarai truk ke jalan bebas hambatan lalu berhenti untuk melepaskan tembakan ke arah kendaraan yang lewat dalam upaya membajak kendaraan lain, kata polisi sebagaimana dilaporkan Xinhua, Rabu.
Ia menewaskan dua orang lagi selama pembajakan kendaraan di Santa Ana dan Tustin sebelum bunuh diri di Villa Park.
Polisi menemukan senjata api yang diduga digunakan tersangka dalam semua aksi penembakan dan berusaha menentukan siapa pemilik senjata tersebut.
Los Angeles - Four people were killed and several others wounded when a gunman rampaged through several Orange County cities in Southern California Tuesday, local media said.
The suspect was identified as Ali Syed, a 20-year-old man who had no criminal record. He was unemployed, living at home with his parents and taking one class at Saddleback College, said the reports, citing local authorities.
According to Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff´s Department, the violence began about 4:45 a.m. local time (1245 GMT), when a woman was fatally shot at a home in Ladera Ranch. The suspect fled the scene in an SUV, and apparently tried to carjack a number of vehicles in the Tustin area, local police said.
Syed drove the truck onto the freeway and later stopped to open fire on passing vehicles in an attempt to procure another vehicle, said the police, who found seven shell casings at the freeway shooting scene.
He killed two others during carjackings in Santa Ana and Tustin before taking his own life in Villa Park.
Police said they recovered the shotgun the suspect used in all the shootings and were trying to determine ownership of the weapon.
