CA - Three people killed in series of Orange County shootings, 19 Feb 2013

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The first shooting was reported in Ladera Ranch, where the shooter is believed to have killed one person inside a home along Red Leaf, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The shooting was reported at about 5:20 a.m.

The shooter, described only as a male, fled in an SUV, then attempted to carjack multiple vehicles in Tustin, Lt. Paul Garaven of the Tustin Police Department said.

The first carjacking was reported at Red Hill Avenue and Nisson Road, where a bystander was shot, he said. That person was not fatally injured, Garaven said.

Police then received reports of another shooting along Village Way and the 55 freeway, where the shooter is believed to have shot and killed a driver before taking a vehicle.

Officers continued to search for the gunman until they received reports of a man with a gun near the area of Edinger and Newport Avenue. Two people were shot there before the gunman took another vehicle, Garaven said. One of the victims was taken to a nearby hospital. The other died.
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Although the shooter has yet to be identified, a preliminary report issued by local network KTLA before his death was confirmed described him as a male in his 20s, who fled the scene of the first shooting in an SUV. Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino tells a local NBC affiliate, "There are no other shooters and there is no threat to the community.”
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The suspect managed to carjack another vehicle and shoot two more people, one of whom was pronounced dead at the scene, before officers finally caught up with him on the 55.

Lt. Garaven says the suspect "shot and killed himself" before officers could make contact.
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Residents in one Ladera Ranch neighborhood saw crime tape and police vehicles when they awakened Tuesday morning as authorities investigated what appeared to be the first in a string of shootings across Orange County that left at least four people dead, including the suspect, and others wounded.

Jason Glass said he was across the street from the crime scene, working in his garage, when between 2 and 3 a.m. he heard what he now believes were three to five gunshots. About 4 a.m., Glass said, he "heard a bunch of ruckus" — no yelling, but lots of doors slamming — before a car sped away from the house.

"I just thought somebody was being really loud and obnoxious," Glass said.

Deputies arrived about 4:45 a.m. after receiving a 911 call from inside the home reporting a shooting, Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. Deputies found a woman dead inside the home; no one else was hurt.
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• Police report at least five crime scenes of dead or injured victims
• Shooting spree believed to have started with a murder at a home in Ladera Ranch
• Gunman followed by cops as he drove to middle of an intersection, where he got out of his car and shot himself

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“I killed someone, today is my last,” Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan said the suspect told one of his victims.

Two people were killed in the carjackings, one shot in what police described as an “execution” at the side of the road. Two others people were wounded before the man suspected in the shootings stopped in Orange, walked out of the car and shot himself with a shotgun.

The gunman was identified by authorities as Ali Syed, a 21-year-old Ladera Ranch man and a student who lived with his parents. His connection to the woman killed in Ladera Ranch, identified only as a woman in her 20s, was unknown, authorities said.
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