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Demsrule86

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Mon May 1, 2017, 10:32 AM May 2017

Gunman unleashes deadly barrage at pool party. Has Trump emboldened white bigots (me)? [View all]

AN DIEGO -- Police shot and killed a 49-year-old man suspected of shooting seven people Sunday at a birthday pool party in an apartment complex near the University of California, San Diego, authorities said.

Police received reports of a man shooting people by the swimming pool at around 6 p.m., Chief Shelley Zimmerman said at a news conference.

The gunman was described as a white male, reports CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB-TV.

Four black women, two black men, and one Hispanic man were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, Zimmerman said. One of the women later died.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-blacks-1-hispanic-shot-in-san-diego-police-kill-gunman/



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