>> good evening to you. you are watching al jazeera america life from new york city. i'm morgan radford with a look at the top stories. six shot and killed in a drive by rampage near santa barbara. a news conference is scheduled shortly. belgium - a gunman opens fire at the jewish museum, killing three. >> the pope's trip to the middle east makes history. the european elections under way and the biggest issue is the pore economy - that's the

subject of our segment "a deeper look." . >> you are look at live pictures from santa barbara where we are awaiting a news conference on a deadly shooting rampage. six killed, seven wounded near the university of california santa barbara last night, when a man opened fire in a series of drive-by shootings. the 22-year-old shooter was found dead had his car and his family attorney said the shootings came after posting chilling youtube videos. brian rooney joins us with more from santa barbara. good morning. what do we know about this suspected shooter? >> his family's lawyer went

before the press and said he has as burger sint room and a -- syndrome and a history of mental illness. the father of a victim, about an hour ago, spoke to the press unexpectedly. his son, christopher martinez was among those killed and it was very emotional for a few minutes. >> you don't think it will happen to your child until it does. chris was a really great kid, ask anyone who knew him. his death has left our family lost and broken. why did chris die? >> because of craven irresponsible politicians and the e.r. a. they talk about gun rights. what about chris's right to live. when will this insanity stop.

when will enough people say "stop this madness, we don't have to live like this.". >> reporter: now, the weapon used was a handgun. we don't know anything about that. we are hoping to learn more. as for the shooter - there had been signals in recent days. he put postings on facebook and the internet, he was in despair that girls were not interested in him, and he put a video on youtube just yesterday actually threatening to kill as many people as he could. his family's lawyer spoke to the press today. >> the family believes that the child was, in fact, the perpetrator. they have not seek the body, they have not seen anything. nobody would do the types of things that happened last night unless there was a form of mental illness as a generic statement. more specifically, this child was being treated by multiple

professionals. the chilled was diagnosed at an earlier age of being a highly functional asperger's syndrome child. >> reporter: so sadly with the death of elliott rodgers it makes for seven killed, and six in hospital. >> we heard from the father of the victim. that was hard to watch, it was chilling and heart-breaking. we heard from the family's lawyer. has the family themselves said anything, and what relation did they have to the youtube video. did they alert authorities about the video? elt. >> reporter: apparently something opinion said about an earlier posting on youtube. i don't think it was the one he posted before the shooting yesterday. we are trying to figure that out. the family was aware that he had

problems. how severe they thought they were, we don't know. the family, the parents have not directly spoken yet. >> and what about the wounded who are in the hospital - how are they holding up? >> you know, under the privacy laws these days, it's difficult to get hospital reports. we do know that at least one kid who was on a bessicle was -- bicycle hit by the bmw has a serious head injury. we don't have exact reports about what kind of condition the others are in. >> brian rooney live from santa barbara. stay with us. we are going to bring you live pictures. there you have it from the podium in santa barbara, california, where the sheriff's office is briefing the media. they are expected to speak in 15 minutes. we'll cut in and bring you that

live. speaking of shootings, three are dead after a shooting at the jewish museum in bruceless, a man parked the car, walked in, fired shots and walked off. the mayor of brils say the -- brussels say the press have one in custody but are searching for another. >> francis is getting a warm welcome on his first trip to the middle east. he met with syrian refugees and pleaded to an urgent end to syria's civil war. nick schifrin is following the visit. thank you for joining us this evening. what message is francis bringing to the holy land? >> reporter: before he came here, pope francis promised that this trip would not be political at all. it's impossible to come here,

especially now, and not have to confront conflict. as you said francis focussed on the syrian conflict and spoke with syrian refugees and he spoke with palestine refugees and spent the day trying to ipp spire the down trodden and everyone in the region, starting with this first event. >> with a man that leaves a billion catholics lands in the holy land, pope francis brought his popularity, pope mobile and pleas for peace to 25,000 christians. [ speaking foreign language ] . >> it's a holiday. this is a new starting. with jesus. they came from across the middle east, a rocky flags, lebanese flakes. jordanian christians say they are treated well. it's not the case from christions in neighbouring

countries. >> it's a difficult time. we need this badly, from all the leaders to understand that we belong to god. we have to have the peace, because we love peace. >> in his whom illy pope francis said peace was possible but nomsed it was not easy >> translation: peace is not something that can be bought or sold. >> reporter: he came it a sight where jesus was believed to have been baptised and his message shifted, becoming sombre. [ singing ] >> reporter: much of this crowd are iraqi and syrian refugees. 20,000 fled here, including joseph. >> translation: in the last three years syrians suffered from violence. the pope understands our suffering. joseph fled to imam 18 months ago. in syria joseph and his family lived in a city that for 150 years had been a christian

sanctuary. then the war arrived in malula. joseph had to defend his family himself. >> translation: they shot at our house, they shot at me. >> his daughter shows me the few syrian mementos she had time to bring. >> my life was amazing. in syria there is a lot of freedom. more than here. joseph feels that the house is a prison, and in jordan, he is not allowed to work or integrate. >> our message is this that the world return humanity to us. >> these christians are inspired by pope francis's visit. joseph and his family decided to apply for asylum in canada, feeling they have no choice but to become refugees again. >> reporter: tomorrow pope francis will be the first pope to fly to the west bank as

opposed to going through israel. he is endorsing the state of palestine. he'll do something similar. he'll go mt h, rt -- hertzel, the tomb. his predecessors never did. israeli officials say it's an endorse. of their right to the land. >> an total for pope francis to push forward what pope benedict did in the region, and strike a balance that you can't avoid conflict. >> nick schifrin joining us live from imam. thank you for being with us. the pope's schedule is jam-packed. next he'll travel to bethlehem where he'll visit the church of the nativity and he'll fly to the airport to be welcomed by the israelis. after that he'll go to jerusalem where he'll visit the western wall and meet the mufti of jerusalem. finally he'll fly back to tel

aviv before returning home. voters in ukraine will take to the polls tomorrow. this is the first presidential election since the ousting of former president yank. we go live to quooef with the late latest. >> the election is hours away, what are people saying, do they think they know which way the vote will swing? >> certainly i think when you take a look at polls there's an indication of who will be on the top tomorrow. there's so many other unanswered questions. for free and fair elections and for recognition that this was a good election across ukraine, you can't just tally total numbers, you have to look at what is going on in the east of the country. there are problems there. in the last 24-48 hours separatists having a lot of luck in the wage of war out there to try to derail the election. they attacked polling station,

dragged out the polling boxes, intimidated workers. the ministry here, the government, is saying that they think of the 34 electoral districts in eastern ukraine, only about half of them will be open for votes tomorrow. right now, when you look at the polling the billionaire, petero poroshenko, is certainly way out in the lead for tomorrow's race. >> in a kiev suburb the campaign truck bars the message. give a gift to ukraine and elect president petero poroshenko, don't elect criminals. on the eve of the presidential election his supporters and polls say this 48-year-old has victory in the bag. on the last day of the campaign, meeting with several e.u. foreign ministers petero poroshenko already talking like ukraine's elected leader. >> it's a battle for supporting terrorists. >> he's the candiman, the king of chocolate stores and fact

rits, who unlike many of ukraine's businessmen seem to have built his empire in an honest and transparent way. crisscrossing the country he promised it all. he says he'll rebuild the economy and turn ukraine away from russia towards european prosperity. and security - he says he'll rebuild the army to deal with separatists who refuse to lay down weapons. he tells us amnesty for some, but not all. >> we'll have talks with people in the streets. terrorists. >> people are on the streets in the east. we are willing to have a talk. people with their arms - not. >> petero poroshenko has emerged unscathed from a long history of politics. he's a former government minister, including trade and foreign affairs. when violent demonstrations broke out. he was one of the first officials to go to the street, and supported those fighting for

change. he denounced corruption and russian interference and doesn't rule out ukraine joining n.a.t.o. >> if the security rises up, if the instability will not stop after presidential elections - who knows, maybe we should make these decisions. >> reporter: ukrainians are in no mood for follows promises. whoever wins has russia to deal with, and demonstrators want an overhaul. they won't wait long. at this camp they honour those killed by police bullets. this was the first gunned down. this weekend his father visited where he lived. he told me he would stay until victory or pay with his life. his close friend warned petero poroshenko must deliver or demonstrations will begin again. he predicted there'll be more

serious and violence. that literally puts ukraine's next president under the gun. >> a lot of people are telling us on the ground that they want to get the election over with. they feel once they have a new president it will bring stability to the country, and the sooner the better. in order for petero poroshenko to win, he needs 50% of the vote, and plus one, otherwise they'll have to go a second round, and this will drag on for another month after that. >> i want to go back to something you said earlier. you mentioned unanswered questions. one being the separatists in the east. is there indications of how a newly elected government, one elected tomorrow, could bring the east back into the fold? >> in very sort of broad-brush strokes they talk about it. do they have a short-term magic solution? no way. petero poroshenko said that he

has a plan. he needs to say that to ukrainians. how workable it is, we'll have to see. overall, he says it will improve the economy, lure them back, giving amnesty to separatists, as long as they put down weapons. if they don't. we'll fight against them, using the ukranian army. they hope as soon as the election is done, the european union, america, will give broad support and say it was a clean, fair election, once they acknowledge the election, they believe that russia will have to do so and maybe that will get mr vladimir putin, the president of russia to stop interfering in eastern ukraine. >> joining us live from kiev, dana lewis. it's a big electoral weekend in egypt where voters are choosing a new president. retired military chief abdul fatah al-sisi is leading the polls, saying the ties with the u.s. will get stronger once the elections are over. he led an ore throughof mohamed

mursi last july. since then he has imprisoned hundreds of muslim brotherhood, which is where we find three al jazeera journalists spending 148th day in gale garm elliot rodgers -- gaol, peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are accused of conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. their trial has been adjourned one more time until june 1st. columbia is holding a presidential election tomorrow. it's a high-stakes election filled with political drama. none of the capped dates are expected to -- candidates are expected to win more than 50% of the votes. we have the latest. from the political right to the left, none of the five candidates competing for the presidency has overwhelming support. plus, there is one candidate who is not on the ballot. the one for whom poet and

novelist has been working for. >> translation: we want to give life to the blaping vote and -- blank vote and chose a candidate "nobody for president", he has a blank face, no one representses, his slogan is no one gives us health, no one gives us education or work, let's vote for nobody. >> it's more than a whim. the constitution stipulates that if 50% plus one vote is blank, new elections with new candidate must be held. while it's a long shot the nation-wide campaign reflects it's content with voter's political choses. the image that people have is that the institutions are corrupt. they don't believe in the leaders, not one. >> an alarming diagnosis. according to a u.n. report, only syria has a larger percentage of

population internally displaced by war and violence. these people have been camp out for more than three weeks, a desperate measure to get authorities to take notice of their plight. during the election season, as you see, no one is listening. they show me a video, police trying to evict them this week with water canons from the bogota plaza, the largest voting venue. the president santos insists that to ensure social justice he needs another mandate to end columbia's 50--year-old war. >> there is no good time. i'm determined to end the bad war with a good peace treaty. leaving our children in peace. >> the president's main rival - if he win, all bets are off. >> i will be sworn in as president on august 7th, and on that day i'll declare the

professional inspection of the peace talks with those terrorists. >> the future of the peace process is clearly hanging in the balance. yet polls show citizens are concerned about corruption, crime and inadequate public health and education. problems that many disenchanted columbians believe none of their current politicians can tackle. the department of veterans' affairs says it will allow more veterans to receive health care at private facilities. the v.a. is facing allegations that veterans died whilst awaiting treatment at the hospitals. the head of agency says the department is enhancing its clinic capacity to help get the care sooner. this is happening as america honours those that lost their lives serving in the military. this memorial day military, chuck hagel and david pet ray us were among those paying respects to fallen vets.

hagel says the u.s. has a sacred obligation to take care of veterans. we are awaiting more information on the deadly shooting spree. these are live pictures from santa barbara, we expect a news conference any moment. as soon as it begins we'll bring it to you. also ahead - a deeper look as voters pick a european parliament. how a slow economic recovery could affect the voting. fighting the federal government. anger in utah over washington's control of its wide open spaces. spaces.

you're looking at live pictures in santa barbara, california, where we are waiting for the sheriff's office to brief us on a mass shooting near a college campus. as soon as he comes out we'll bring the conference to you. time for a deeper look at one of the world's largest elections. voters pick a new parliament and people are voting in that election. 400 million people are eligible

to cast ballots and voting begins on thursday and will continue through sunday. there are 751 candidates vying for seats in the european parliament. and one of the biggest issues in the election is fixing the economy, which includes cutting government costs. al jazeera's lawrence lee travel across europe to gauge the opinion, first his report from madrid. >> reporter: at this school 10-year-olds draw what their country is going through - an an is looking through a bin, a woman shivering. cuts to the health service and children sharing a sandwich. teachers realised parents couldn't afford to feed or clothe their children properly. >> in summer they bring winter clothes and winter summer clothes. they don't have the right material, they don't bring pens

or notebooks. >> reporter: they have called in a charity which will spend money on spanish children - saying this is what austerity has done. >> this economy has 30% child poverty. that's the second worst in the whole of the european union, not just the euro zone. the only place worse is romania. >> another country hit hard by the economic crisis is greece, where lawrence lee talked to voters feeling disillusioned. >> you know a country has a problem when the rich are not happy, when the luxury car dealership is not having a good time. the dealer, george, speaks bitterly about the state's per cent cuting the well-off of a political culture which discourages those that have money, from spending it. >> the greek economy is its own vehicle. no matter what we say.

we are trying to say we are getting better, which is not true. >> if the rich are disillusioned so many others have more questions than answers. the issue in greece is for the young people to find a better future. we need to leave something behind. >> the pensioners say old ways of thinking are causing problems for future generations. >> it's a problem that goes back many years. greece survived on borrowed money. the greek economy shrunk by 25%. the consequence of all this has been the fragmentation of greek politics, particularly on the left. the party which ruled greece disappeared without trace. in these elections greek voters will be offered a choice of no fewer than 46 different parties. >> and in the netherlands, some people feel that it's the other countries who are not pulling

their weight. having your hair cut it not a bad way to find out what public attitudes are like. barbers spend their lives talking to customers. the mood says lazy southern europeans need to do work and start getting dutch and germans to pay taxes. >> when we are on holiday we work harder. when we have lunch in holland, we go to a shop, buy a sandwich and carry on. if we go to the southern part of yoourm, when i -- europe, when i go for lunch, i start at 11 o'clock and finish at 3 o'clock. >> here there is a gap between houses. where the european union was born, it's down the road. many here would burn the european dream. venlo is the home down of the leader of a growing party,

trying to bring down the e.u., which he insists led its people the wrong way, by opening up the borders. >> a lot of people don't like more controls at the boarder. if we explain to the people that the benefits economically, when it comes to sovereign city, immigration, if they are - if they are more stronger and bigger than the negative size of it, i can sell it to a lot of people. >> time has proven the establishment powerless to stop the rise of the parties. >> if we are unable to stop the danger, it could easily have the majority in the parliament in 2019. >> businesses here, relying on the border constant for the movement of goods it's pair at the lacklustre response to the anti-europeans. >> we do more business with italy than the bric countries together. it wouldn't happen if there

wasn't an e.u. or euro. i can't understand why the politicians from which party cannot come with simply facts that everybody can understand the relevance and importance of europe. >> so here is the big question - what happens over the course of the next few years with parties that say they are moderate, pro-european are unable to defeat the arguments of people like the french national front or the pvp in the netherlands, what happens if by the end of the decade there's a popular mandate to put the boards back up? anti-europeans persuaded many europeans that the dream of free movement has become a social nightmare, which warped europe's personality. europe spend 70 years trying to tear down the walls. by the time children are adults things may be different. >> let's bring in kurt volker from the mccain institute,

deputy assistant secretary of state for europe and eurasian affairs from 2005 to 2008. he joins us from washington d.c. thank you for being with us. first off, we are seeing all these new parties pop up in this election what are they really offering that is new and, quiet frankly, are they doing more harm than good by splitting up the vote? >> what they are doing is giving voice to frustrations that people feel. in most european countries they do not take the european parliamentary elections serious. this is a protest vote. as a protest against the things covered in the reports that we just heard against immigration, against joblessness, a slow economy, and against a sense of injustice between north and south, and over centralisation in brussels, these are the things that are motivating voters to cast a negative vote or a rejectionist vote in the european parliament elections.

fortunately the parliament doesn't have a great deal of power, and with a rising far right approximately de less than a majority. i don't think it will have a significant impact in the near term. >> you call this a protest vote against immigration. is the rise of these fringe groups in europe a surprise given the state of the european economy? what could this mean in the long firm for europe. >> that is an interesting question. will the trend be reflected in national elections as they begin to occur. we have seen, for instance, in the u.k., the rise of the u.k. independence party, they'll do well in the european elections. next year, when the uk has a national election, how will the uk independence party perform and will they take votes away and shake up british politics. >> as an american, all of these

things smell very familiar. could you compare this to, say, the rise of the tea party in the united states. >> yes, i think you can. i think some of the things that motivate the tea party are a sense of injustice relating to immigration, a sense of disenfranchisement from washington. a sense that elites are leading the country in a wrong direction. it's a protest vote in the u.s. i think we are seeing similarities in our political development, and i tiping if you pin -- think if you pinpoint one thing, it's the economy over the last five or six years, leaving people feeling worse than the 2008 crash. >> staying stateside could the elections change the nature of europe's nature with the united states. >> i don't think so. the parliament itself doesn't have that much influence over all direction of europe, compared to the nation states.

i think we are seeing nation states already grab power back from a centralized european union, and tas where we are dealing -- and that's where we are dealing with german chancellor angela merkel in the u.k. i don't think the elections today or this weekend will change very much. they do point to bigger trends about movement in society towards the far right party yes. if that is reflected in the national politics of each of the european countries, that will be significant. >> you are saying it doesn't change the parliament or the infrastructure of power, but i want to go to something grabbing headlines for months. from a global perspective the frin g groups have come out in support of vladimir putin's intervention in ukraine, if it does not fundamentally change the structure of power, could it bolster vladimir putin's position. >> vladimir putin has been working hard to support the far right groups because they are challenging the more moderate

and mainstream governments that are obstacles to vladimir putin's designs, it's coming from his own great power standpoint wanting to support fringe groups to undermine from within, that's why there's an affinity there. i don't see them powerful enough at this stage to make a difference. actually, i think we have to admit to ourselves that the european reaction from the leading governments to what has happened in ukraine has been disappointing. if anything, i think this will perpetuate that trend, that the governments will see that popular mood is not in favour of doing anything about ukraine, so they'll sit it out. >> we'll keep our eyes on the trend. thank you for being with us. >> right now we are waiting for more information on the deadly shooting spree that happened in santa barbara. these are live pictures and we expect a news conference any moment and as soon as it starts we'll bring it to you.

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you. good evening to you. welcome back to al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm morgan radford. six people shot dead last night in a drive by shooting near the university of california, santa barbara. the gunman is dead. in a youtube video shot by the suspect indicates that those shootings were, in fact, premed dated. you are looking at live pictures in santa barbara, where we are waiting for the sheriff's department, and as soon as they speak we'll come to you. first a look at the forecast with meteorologist, rebecca

stevenson. >> we are watching the storms across the south-west, and really a hurricane. this is amanda in the eastern pacific. it's spinning, as you see in the visible satellite. a series of thunder storms into mexico, causing a lot of rain fall. >> sorry, we'll interrupt you to go to the blacking news conference in santa barbara about the mass shooting. >> i am joined here today by a number of people from the santa barbara county sheriff's office, executive and command staff and a number of our members of our allied agencies and community leaders. i'm joined by acting under-sheriff don patter son. acting chief executive sam gross. commander darren fathering ham. acting commander zooef dobel, commander of the criminal investigations decision.

lieutenant kelly moore, overseeing the investigation and lieutenant steve johnson assisting him in that regard. i'll be joined by dr steven kaminski director of service at cottage hospital. he'll speak following my remarks. i want to acknowledge and thank community leaders present here today to show support. we have our second district country supervisor janet wolf. our third district county supervise doreen farr, chancellor henry yang from the u.c. campus in santa barbara, dr lauri gaskin, the president of santa barbara's city college. carlos kenino the special agent in charge. los angeles office of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, dr leslie lunt, who is

with the santa barbara county alcohol, drug and mental health services, mark dearelli the captain and commander of the santa barbara office of the california highway patrol. jeff skoba, the assistant chief for coastal division of the californian highway patrol and lieutenant dave malard of the u.c. santa barbara police department. this is our second press conference to present information pertaining to the tragic mass murder incident that occurred last night in isla vista. this was a chaotic rapidly un folding and convoluted incident involving multiple crime scenes. investigators from the santa barbara sheriff's office and allied agencies have been processing evidence and investigating this occurrence throughout the evening, and up until the present time.

additional information has now been received that will clarify and in some cases correct some information that was preliminarily conveyed at the first press conference. i'd like to start by confirming the identity of the suspect in this case. his name was elliott oliver robert rod ger rod g.e. r. his date of birth was july 24th, 1991. a 22-year-old eurasian male, a student of santa barbara city college, who was living in isla vista. our agency has had three previous documented contacts with suspect rod ger. the first of those occurred in

july 21st, 201 july 21st 2013ger. the first of those occurred in july 21st 2013 where the suspect was contacted at the hospital where he was treated for injuries and claimed to be the victim of an assault. a u.c. police department officer assigned to the isla vista foot patrol documented that incident, but received information that the informant, mr rodger may have been the aggressor in that incident. that case was suspended pending any additional leads. the second incident occurred on january 15th at 2014 when suspect rodger contacted our agency and accused one of his room mates of stealing three candles that were valued at $22. rodger made a citizen arrest of the room-mate on a charge of 488

of the penal code, which is petty theft. the room-mate was booked into the gaol, subsequently cited and released, and later the case was subsequently referred to the district attorney who filed a petty theft charge in that case. the third incident occurred april 30th, 2014, when sheriff's deputies contacted the suspect at his residence following a request to check on his welfare. that request had originated from a family member. the deputies contact the suspect at the time, found him to be polite and courteous, he downplayed the concerns for his welfare and the deputies cleared the call. i want to go into a chronology

of the event that occurred last night. we believe we have a fairly good, albeit perhaps somewhat still rough chronology of the suspects actions last night. we have identified 10 separate elections where criminal activity took place. in several of those locations there are actually more than one specific crime scene. but i'm going to go through the locations, refer to them as one through 10. you have received a sheet that has a map of isla vista with the numerals on that sheet to give you an idea of where the incident or how the incident unfolded and where - what i'm about to tell you occurred. location number one - it appears as though suspect rodger murdered three victims within his - within the 6500 block of

saville road prior to the shooting rampage that took place last night. the three male victims appear to have been repeatedly stabbed. we are still processing that crime scene and are still in the process of positively identifying the victims and notifying their next of kin, so i will not have their identities for you at this time. the second location was the beginning of last night's rampage. that was at the alpha phi sorority in the 800 block of albarka dero. several members heard loud and aggressive knocking at the front door which lasted for one to two minutes. fortunately no one opened the door. and shortly afterwards witnesses reported seeing three young

women standing outside in the vicinity, shot by the suspect from across the street. the victim's names - two of those victims were fatally wounded, and one thankfully is still alive. the two victims killed were katherine brian cooper a 22-year-old, and veronica elizabeth wyce, a 19-year-old. both were u.c.s. b students. those were the two killed. the third victim who is still alive suffered multiple gunshot wounds. after shooting those victims, the suspect travelled to location number three, a nearby delhi cat esen located on

pardahl road. he exited the vehicle, entered the delhi cat essence and shot and killed 23-year-old christopher ross michael-martinez. mr michael-martinez was a u.c.s. b student. foot patrol deputies heard the shooting and responded to vet the incident. as they arrived at the scene, they witnessed the suspect, who at that time was unknown, fleeing east bound in his suspect vehicle, a black bmw. the suspect conditioned towards location number four at the top of the loop, where he fired multiple round at two people on the side walk. now, the suspect drove his

vehicle on the wrong side of the road and it was parallel to the sidewalk when he shot from the driver's wound. the suspect continued forward and he turned south bound on to elembarko dero, eastbound to delplyar to location number five, where he brandished a handgun at a female victim. the suspect fired additional rounds, turned his vehicle around and started to travel westbound on delplyar. a lone sheriff's deputy responding to the area on foot was then taken under fire by the suspect. the sheriff's deputy returned fire and the suspect drove off westbound on delplyer.

she travelled to location number 6 in the 6600 block of delplyer, where he struck and injured a bicyclist with his vehicle. the suspect continued west to calmeno dal sir and turned northbound on to that road. he proceeded to the intersection with saber-altardy location number seven, where he fired multiple shots at pedestrians in the area. >> threes of those pedestrians were struck by the suspects gun fire. the suspect travel eastbound and shot another victim at location

number 8. >> the suspect drove east bound to location number nine where he came into contact with four sheriff deputies running across ai corn park. as the suspect accelerated past, he fired at them. three of the four sheriff's deputies returned fire, striking the suspect's vehicle, and we belief shooting the suspect in the left hip area. the suspect drove off and again turned south on elembarka-dero. proceeded to d, lplyer, where he turned westbound, on the street he was on previously. witnesses reported the suspect accelerating his vehicle for a

high rate of speed striking another bicyclist, he was thrown on to the hood of the vehicle, caving in the windshield of the vehicle. the suspect's vehicle collided with several parked cars and came to a stop. responding deputies removed the suspect from the car and handcuffed him. he was solve dead with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. >> there was a total of 10 locations with 12 crime scenes between the locations. there was a total of seven fatalities, six victims and one suspect. an additional 13 were injured

during the mela four injured by the suspect's vehicle, eight takening gunshot wounds and one subpoena the a minor injury of unknown origin. three 9mm handguns were retrieved. a remaining was a glock 34 long slide. we have images of those types of firearms there and a photo of one of the suspect weapons. >> with the assistance of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, we determined that all the weapons were legally purchased from federally licensed firearms dealers, and

they were all registered to the suspect. one weapon was purchased in golida, one in oxnard and one in burbank. in addition to the weapons, the suspect had 34 loaded 10 round magazines for the pistols, and seven, 10mm magazines for the glock pistol. the having is continuing, and we expect more information will be released in the next day or two. at this time i'd like to turn the podium over to dr kamenski for some comment recording the injured victims. >> thank you sheriff brown, i'll

be brief. my last name is kamiski. i'm the trauma director for cottage health system in santa barbara cottage hospital. stephen. i'm the trauma director for cottage health system and santa barbara cottage hospital. on behalf of cottage health system i extend my condolences to family and forehands of those affected by this tragedy, our thoughts are with you. we are deeply saddened by the events that occurred in our community. we are doing everything we can to provide the level care to the victims that arrived at our hospital. our social workers and spiritual care team are providing support for the patients and families. i can provide you with the following information. four patients were freed and released at galeda valley hospital last night and early

into the morning today. seven injured victims were transported to the trauma center is the santa barbara cottage hospital where they remain in our care. of the seven, two patients are in good condition, three are in fair condition, and two patients are in soars condition. thank you for your cooperation in allowing the privacy and space needed for the patients and families to heal. out of respect for their confidentiality and compliance with confidentiality law i will not provide further information on individual victims or their injuries. thank you. >> thank you dr kaminski and thank you to members of the press for being here. in summary i would like to express, on behalf of all of the men and women of the santa barbara country sheriff's office and allied agencies and our

community leaders here today, our deepest condolences to the victims who were killed in this tragic incident, and our level wishes for -- level wishes tobe wishes for -- best wishes to for a speedy recovering for the victims as well. i want to re-emphasise something i said yesterday - that is to commend the actions taken in response to this case by the men and women in law enforcement particularly in my department. i particularly am exceedingly proud of the response that was delivered in the field, the resist lute and heroic manner in which my duties engaged this homicidal suspect in two separate gun battles and i have no doubt that had they not done

that and had they not engaged in that activity, that there would have been further loss of life and further injury, especially when we determined that the suspect had over 400 remaining rounds of ammunition in his possession. so my cued use to all the people involved -- kudows to all involved, particularly those as the action unfolded. we'll take a few questions, i'll lead with a caveat that some of the information i may not be able to provide to you at this point in time. we'll continue to keep you updated as well. >> reporter:. >> reporter: (inaudible). >> the question was when did we become aware of videos on the web and the manifesto, the written document that apparently was written by the suspect. we became aware of that fairly

quickly in the investigation, last night, and in reading this 141-page rambling autobiographical, almost combination of an autobiography and diary, it's apparent of the severe extent of how disturbed mr roger was, and the tact that he -- fact that he had been and was continuing to be scene by a variety of different health care professionals, but it's very, very apparent that he was severely mentally disturbed when you review that document. the video tape is a chilling - there were self video tapes that he posted, but the one posted prior to the attack is a particularly chilling one in which he basically looks at the

camera and talks about what he is about to do. >> reporter: (inaudible). >> what i can tell you is when the deputies contacted him, he - you know, this was in response to a check on the welfare call, to check on his welfare, how he was doing. the deputies contacted him directly at his residence and they determined that he did not meet the criteria for an involuntary mental health hold. he was, as i said, courteous and polite and appeared timid and shy and did not meet the coit earia of 51 -- cite ear ya of

5150 of the code which would have him expressed. he expressed that he was having difficulties with his social life. deputies discussed option, offered resources to him and ultimately cleared that call without further action. >> reporter: (inaudible). >>. >> i'm not going to go back and play monday morning quarterback, we are investigating the incident and what happened and the interaction that they had. you have to understand that this is a fairly routine type of call that is quite commonplace, and the deputies who are well trained and adept at