LOS ANGELES — A gunman is suspected of shooting and killing at least three people before turning the gun on himself in a multicity shooting and carjacking spree in Orange County early Tuesday morning.
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One woman was found dead at a home in Ladera Ranch, a residential community in central Orange County, at 5:20 a.m., said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
The suspect, a man in his 20s, fled the scene and drove a sport-utility vehicle into Tustin, just north of the Ladera Ranch area. It is unclear exactly what happened next, but the police in Tustin then received a call of a carjacking with shots fired around 5:30 a.m. There was a second call of another nearby carjacking and fatal shooting near another freeway several minutes later. The suspect then apparently shot two people in another carjacking nearby.
When police tried to stop the suspect, he shot and killed himself, the authorities said. Neither the suspect, nor the victims, were identified.
The shootings shut down several stretches of freeways during the early morning rush between Los Angeles and Orange County.
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One woman was found dead at a home in Ladera Ranch, a residential community in central Orange County, at 5:20 a.m., said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
The suspect, a man in his 20s, fled the scene and drove a sport-utility vehicle into Tustin, just north of the Ladera Ranch area. It is unclear exactly what happened next, but the police in Tustin then received a call of a carjacking with shots fired around 5:30 a.m. There was a second call of another nearby carjacking and fatal shooting near another freeway several minutes later. The suspect then apparently shot two people in another carjacking nearby.
When police tried to stop the suspect, he shot and killed himself, the authorities said. Neither the suspect, nor the victims, were identified.
The shootings shut down several stretches of freeways during the early morning rush between Los Angeles and Orange County.