Man shoots 4 people, self at fast food restaurant in San Bernardino

[onehandle]

Source: AP

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A man carrying two guns walked inside a Southern California fast food restaurant and shot four people who were eating lunch together, killing two — including an 8-year-old boy — before turning the gun on himself, police said Saturday.

The 56-year-old man arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and shot a man, a 29-year-old woman, her 5-year-old son and her 8-year-old son, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.

The man eating with the group was declared dead at the restaurant and the 8-year-old was declared dead at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.

The woman, the 5-year-old boy and the gunman were hospitalized in critical condition, Tracey said. The names of the victims and the shooter weren't released and the relationships of the dead man and the gunman to the victims wasn't immediately clear.

Read more: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15334893?source=rss

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. That was no man.

That was a coward.

How sick.........

[elocs]

2. I read that here an hour ago, but it got moved to the Gungeon:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x322143

[onehandle]

3. That's odd. This is not an everyday gun crime.

The many, many people shot every day are usually in groups of one or two.

[Haole Girl]

4. How awful

:-(

[proteus_lives]

5. We better national health-care.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Huh? Yr post makes absolutely no sense. Can you explain? n/t

[proteus_lives]

13. Oh, forgot a word.

We need better national health care. Which includes mental stuff. If people had better access to help, less people would harm themselves or others.

[Violet_Crumble]

14. That's it? Surely there's some other things that need to be done n/t

[proteus_lives]

15. Such as?

[havocmom]

6. Man on a bike came into a fast food place & killed a man in Tucson a week or so ago

The man who was killed in Tucson has been under investigation for his part (as a loan officer) in bilking a couple hundred people out of three to ten million dollars over a few short years. He had recently been shot and injured, by a man on a bike.

We gotta do something about those bikes.

[liquid diamond]

10. Hahaha. Great "shot" at the anti-gun freaks. The guns didn't walk

into the restaurant and open fire. A PERSON PULLED THE TRIGGER!

[havocmom]

11. Possibly a person of moderate means who was bilked out of a lot of money by a crook

who was meeting with a Christian Business Networking Club he started.

When so many white collar criminals are ruining so many people, it seems likely more people will pull more triggers.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Just another sicko day in America, where guns rule.

Oh well, another dead child. Another maimed child. A maimed mother. And on it goes. And on. And on. Second Amendment is supreme and all that.

Cue the gun apologists in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

[pinboy3niner]

8. UPDATE: Injured victim was shooter's stepdaughter

3 killed, 2 hurt in shooting at taco restaurant
Man comes in and shoots two adults, two kids before killing himself


updated 8 minutes ago
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A man carrying two guns walked into a Southern California fast food restaurant and shot his stepdaughter, her husband and two sons before fatally shooting himself, police said Saturday.

Her husband and 8-year-old son were killed, and the 29-year-old woman and her 6-year-old son were critically injured.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37803385/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[GreenStormCloud]

12. "...the gunman had a long and violent criminal record."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_california_restaurant_shooting

With a record like that, it was already illegal for him to have a gun.

Solution: Make it doubleplusillegal. Then he will think twice using a gun to kill people with. :sarcasm:

[alp227]

16. Just learned about this on the local 10PM news. Sad.

Yet another repeat offender who abused his freedom...at the cost of his OWN FAMILY's lives.