- Title: USA: Makeshift Memorials adorn Isla Vista streets after drive-by shootings
- Date: 25th May 2014
- Summary: ISLA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 25, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MEMORIAL OUTSIDE DELI MART WHERE STUDENT WAS KILLED CLOSE-UP OF DELI MART SIGN (SOUNDBITE) (English) SAM HASSAN, OWNER OF DELI WHERE STUDENT WAS KILLED, SAYING: "It's sad, you cry. Every time I look at the news I cry because you know it's like it's your kid, it's your friend, it's your buddy that yo
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- Story Text: Makeshift memorials could be seen throughout the town of Isla Vista, California Sunday morning (May 25), where a gunman went on a shooting rampage Friday night (May 23), killing seven people, including himself.
Flowers, candles and family photos adorned the sidewalk outside the Deli Mart where one student was shot and killed. The owner of the deli, Sam Hassan, said he knew the young man who was killed - a frequent patron of his store - and told Reuters the news is simply heartbreaking.
"It's sad, you cry. Every time I look at the news I cry because you know it's like it's your kid, it's your friend, it's your buddy that you just talked to and you saw. And you know I saw his dad yesterday on TV, and I just cried with him, I have kids also so it was hard," Hassan said, choking back tears.
Outside the deli, Michael Stein, the father of a UCSB student who was at the store no more than ten minutes before the shooting occurred, arrived to paid his respects, saying that no parent should ever have to suffer through the loss of their child.
"You start seeing baby pictures in your head, you start seeing home movies, you start remembering birthday parties, you start thinking about graduations and all the things that for a daughter who's about to turn 21 in October may have lost and I don't know how, I guess it's Mr. Martinez, the gentleman who lost his son, you know they always say time heals all wounds and you'll live on, I don't know how," Stein said.
22-year-old, Elliot Rodger, is suspected of carrying out the killings, first stabbing three young men near his apartment building before embarking on a shooting rampage through Isla Vista, which directly borders the campus of the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara.
Rodger died after two confrontations with police. Authorities suspect that he was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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