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Thursday 5 November 2015
Gunman surrenders at San Diego complex; no injuries reported
ELLIOT SPAGAT officers responding to a do- pect’s, and called 911. instructions over the phone to an airport in Ontario,
JULIE WATSON mestic violence call shortly For about 40 minutes, he on where to walk inside the outside Los Angeles. Pas-
Associated Press after 9 a.m. at the com- cowered in his bathtub, apartment, and rescuers sengers were told there
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A gun- plex in the trendy Bank- talking to friends and co- led him downstairs. was a security problem at
man in a rooftop apart- ers Hill neighborhood near workers on his cellphone. Neu didn’t know the sus- the airport, but people on
ment surrendered to police downtown, Wahl said. The He said it was terrifying. pect but said the two ex- the Internet soon spread
Wednesday after a more shots came “within inch-
than five-hour standoff that es” of striking the officers A suspect in a shooting, center, identified by police as Titus Colbert, is escorted away from an
interrupted air traffic at the approaching the rooftop apartment building after an hours-long standoff with officials Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in San
San Diego airport. apartment, where the al- Diego. Flights to the San Diego International Airport resumed after police took the gunman, who
The domestic violence sus- leged domestic violence fired shots at a nearby apartment complex, posing a threat to air traffic, into custody.
pect with a high-powered victim lived, he said.
rifle shot off numerous The officers returned fire as (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
rounds inside his complex they retreated.
near the San Diego Inter- Authorities asked people “You’re thinking, ‘I might changed greetings in pass- the news of the gunman.
national Airport, prompting in the area to stay inside get shot and killed in my ing. The suspect did not live Carstensen said his wife
the Federal Aviation Ad- and keep away from win- own bathtub,’” he said. at the complex, authorities was at the airport at the
ministration to halt planes dows as they surrounded Neu heard numerous gun- said. time.
from landing as a precau- the complex. Schools in the shots and loud booming Erik Carstensen was on a “I was a little worried for her
tion. area were placed on lock- before a SWAT team came Southwest flight from Chi- until I learned he was not at
The suspect walked out down. to his unit. Police gave him cago that was diverted the airport,” he said. q
of the complex and was Officers with assault rifles
taken into custody around were seen running down
2:30 p.m. — hours after of- the street, and gunshots
ficers swarmed the build- were heard. Wahl said at
ing and exchanged gunfire one point the gunman was
with him, San Diego Police “shooting in all different di-
Lt. Scott Wahl told The As- rections.” Wahl later said
sociated Press. No one was the suspect had moved to
reported hurt. an area of the apartment
The complex is under the where he no longer posed
airport’s approach path, a risk to air traffic.
and planes swoop low Tom Neu, who lives next
near the suspect’s neigh- door to the rooftop apart-
borhood before landing. ment, told reporters he was
Departures were allowed, working at home on his
though their schedules computer when he heard
were affected because a bang. He went to his
there were no incoming balcony, saw a hole in the
flights. stucco wall that separates
The suspect opened fire on his apartment from the sus-
4 stabbed, attacker killed at central California university
JULIET WILLIAMS recover, the school said on treated on campus, Waid and continued outside be- He said police and first
PAUL ELIAS its verified Twitter account. said. fore campus police shot responders flooded the
Associated Press Campus officials reported Campus officials said the as- and killed the attacker. scene.
MERCED, California (AP) earlier in the day that five sailant was a male student Authorities have not con- “You see this stuff all over
— A student stabbed and people were stabbed. but had not confirmed his firmed those accounts and the news and stuff and you
wounded four people as All the victims were con- identity or provided a mo- have said the attack oc- see it happen to all these
classes got underway at a scious when paramedics tive for the attack. Officials curred outside a building other schools,” but you
rural university campus in reached them, Assistant said they were still working as students went in to class don’t expect it to happen
central California before Vice Chancellor Patti Waid out a timeline of events shortly after 8 a.m. at your school, said Lopez,
police shot and killed him, said. leading up to the stab- Alex Lopez was heading 21.
authorities said Wednes- Two of them were taken bings, and it wasn’t clear to class when he realized The university about 120
day. by helicopter to hospitals in how the attack played out. something was wrong on miles (193 kilometers) south
Two students, one staff Modesto, but their condi- Phil Coba, a student gov- campus. of Sacramento in the farm-
member and a vendor tions were not immediately ernment representative, “I was listening to a pod- rich San Joaquin Valley was
were attacked at the Uni- known. The three others said numerous students cast, and there was a locked down for about an
versity of California, Mer- had injuries that were minor told him that the stabbings break in talking, and I just hour and a half after the
ced, but were expected to enough that they could be started inside a classroom hear a gunshot,” he said. stabbings. q
