https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/san-diego-police-shooting-peter-selis.html?_r=0
Gunman Killed After Mass Shooting at San Diego Pool Party
By GERRY MULLANYMAY 1, 2017
Police officers on Sunday in front of the La Jolla Crossroads complex in San Diego. A gunman who opened fire at a poolside party at the complex was shot and killed by the police. Gregory Bull/Associated Press
A gunman opened fire at a poolside party on Sunday in San Diego, killing one person and injuring at least six before the police shot and killed him as he tried to reload, the authorities said.
The attack took place around 6 p.m. as people gathered around the pool for a birthday party at the La Jolla Crossroads complex in University City, near the University of California’s campus in the northwest part of the city, witnesses said.
The police responded after receiving reports of a shooting, and an officer in a police helicopter spotted the gunman as he appeared to be reloading, said Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman.
Three officers on the ground arrived at the complex and confronted the gunman, and they shot him as he pointed his weapon at them, Chief Zimmerman said.
The shooting victims included four women, one of whom died, and three men, Chief Zimmerman said. A fourth man injured his arm while fleeing. Chief Zimmerman identified the suspect as Peter Selis, 49, who was believed to be a resident of the complex.
Six of the seven shooting victims were black, and The San Diego Union Tribunequoted witnesses as saying the gunman was white. Asked whether investigators were looking at the attack as a possible hate crime, Chief Zimmerman said, “We don’t know what the motive is for the shooting.”
At a news conference, Mayor Kevin Faulconer described the shooting as “a horrific act of violence,” and he praised the quick police response.
“I can’t say enough about the emergency response and our first responders,” he said, adding, “I also can’t say enough about our officers who responded on site today whose professionalism, whose quick action, clearly avoided further bloodshed.”
News reports said the gunman had been at the party before he opened fire. One resident, who identified himself only as John, told KFMB-TV that he saw the gunman “sitting, drinking a beer in one hand with a gun out in the other.”
Kaela Wong, a student at the University of California, San Diego, told The Union-Tribune that she had heard the gunman threaten someone who tried to help one of the victims.
“You can either leave, or you can stay here and die,” Ms. Wong said she heard the gunman say.
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