apnekoi: Coroner details Santa Monica rampage deaths

Akiva Sherman, right, 62, repairs the wall next to a makeshift memorial Sunday, June 9, 2013, where a victim's vehicle crashed during the shootings at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif. The shootings on Friday left six people dead, including the gunman. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

This undated photo provided on Sunday, June 9, 2013, by the Santa Monica Police Department shows John Zawahri, 23, who police have identified as the shooter in Friday's deadly rampage at Santa Monica College. The suspect was shot and killed by authorities Friday after a violent spree that claimed the lives of five people and wounded several others. (AP Photo/Santa Monica Police Department)

Debra and Russell Fine pose for a photo Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Santa Monica, Calif. Debra Fine, who was wounded Friday when shooting suspect John Zawahri went on a deadly rampage in Santa Monica, was released in good condition late Saturday from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to a hospital statement. Bullets missed his wife?s vital organs by inches, Russell Fine told the AP Sunday. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)

A picture of the suspect entering Santa Monica College Library is seen as Jacqueline Seabrook, Chief of Santa Monica Police department speaks during a news conference Saturday June 8, 2013, in Santa Monica, Calif., to discuss more information regarding the suspect in the shooting that left five people dead, including the shooter, near Santa Monica College on Friday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

This photo provided by the Santa Monica Police Department during a news conference Saturday, June 8, 2013, shows a frame grab from a surveillance camera revealing the suspect entering Santa Monica College Friday, in Santa Monica, Calif. The Police chief said Saturday that the gunman who went on a chaotic rampage killing four people before being fatally shot by police at the college planned the attack and was capable of firing 1,300 rounds of ammunition. (AP Photo/Santa Monica Police Department)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? As authorities pressed their investigation into why Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri killed five people in a rampage last week, new details began to emerge about the violence.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County coroner's office provided details of the deaths of the five people police say the 23-year-old Zawahri fatally shot and of the gunman, who was killed by police on Friday.

Zawahri's father, Samir Zawahri, 55, was shot multiple times and his brother, Christopher Zawahri, 25, was shot once in the chest, said coroner's Lt. Fred Corral. The gunshots killed the father and brother in the father's home.

The gunman then carjacked a woman and moved toward Santa Monica College, shooting at strangers in a public bus and a car. The 15-minute rampage occurred as students were taking final exams and ended with John Zawahri fatally shot by officers in the college library. Corral said he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Victims included a campus groundskeeper Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, who died of gunshot wounds to the neck and face; his daughter, Marcela Diaz-Franco, 26, a student at the college who died of a gunshot wound to the head; and Margarita Gomez, 68, who was collecting cans outside the library and died of gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest.

Seven years before he went on Friday's rampage, Zawahri kept bomb-making materials at his house and threatened students, teachers and campus police officers at a school he attended for troubled students, officials said.

Zawahiri was hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation in 2006 after the discovery.

Police in 2006 searched the house where Zawahri lived with his father after the teen made repeated violent threats against students, teachers and campus security officers at Olympic High School.

Retired police officer Cristina Coria, who helped execute the search warrant, said Tuesday she didn't know what was found at the house or the outcome of the mental evaluation.

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school board was briefed at the time by school administrators after police found Zawahri was learning to make explosives by downloading instructions from YouTube, school board member Oscar de la Torre said.

"It was some type of devices or materials that would be able to make explosives, and the word 'pipe bombs' was what was referred to," he told The Associated Press. "If it was guns and stuff like that it would have been more serious, but because it was explosives, it wasn't deemed 'Oh my God,' just that this guy had a fascination."

Investigators are looking at his police history, along with a stormy family life, to determine what led to the chaotic shooting Friday. The encounter seven years ago appeared to be the last reported run-in Zawahri had with police until Friday.

Police Sgt. Richard Lewis said a pipe was found in the home in 2006, but he declined to provide more details because Zawahri was a juvenile at the time.

Zawahri wasn't expelled, but he didn't finish classes at Olympic High ? a school for students who have academic or disciplinary issues. District superintendent Sandra Lyon said Zawahri attended the school for six months during 2006.

De la Torre, who was a neighbor of Zawahri, said the gunman's father told him he was having problems with his son eight months ago.

"They didn't talk to a lot of people, they were very reserved," de la Torre said. "One time he did tell me he had problems with his younger son, knowing I work with youth. He never went into detail about anything."

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