Man shoots 4, self in Calif. fast food restaurant

(source: Yahoo News)

LOS ANGELES – A gunman attacked his stepdaughter's family as they ate lunch at a California restaurant, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, wounding the woman and another child, and then fatally shooting himself.
Jimmy Schlager, 56, arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m. Saturday, walked over to a table and fired several shots at his 29-year-old stepdaughter, her 33-year-old husband, and their sons, ages 5 and 6, San Bernardino police Lt. Jarrod Burguan said.
"There was a very brief exchange of words, then he opened fire on them at near point-blank range," Burguan said.
The woman's husband was declared dead at the restaurant and the 6-year-old died at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.
The woman and the 5-year-old boy were in critical condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Tracey said. The names of the victims were not released.
The woman's mother who was married to Schlager died several years ago, and investigators were trying to determine how well Schlager and his stepdaughter got along as police sought a motive for the shooting, Burguan said.
Police said between five and seven employees and several other customers were in the fast food restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims and no one else was injured.
Bullet holes marked the walls and glass covered the floor.
Owners of nearby businesses said horrified patrons streamed out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.
"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."
Schlager, who is from Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County, had an extensive criminal record dating back to 1972 that included assault with a deadly weapon and a restraining order taken out by a co-worker.
Despite living an hour's drive away, Schlager had many ties to San Bernardino and once lived just a few blocks from the restaurant, Burguan said.
Burguan said the attack on the family was one of the worst crime scenes he could remember in San Bernardino, a city of about 200,000 people some 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
"This was something else," he said.

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Gunman kills 4 women at Florida restaurant
3 others hurt; shooter entered building ‘like a wild man,’ witness says

(Source: MSNBC)

HIALEAH, Fla. - A gunman shot and killed four women at a South Florida restaurant and wounded three others before killing himself, police said Monday. Sunday night's rampage began in a parking lot outside the Yoyito Restaurant in Hialeah, where the man was seen arguing with a woman, Detective Eddie Rodriguez said. "It was some sort of domestic dispute," he said. The man shot the woman, then walked into the restaurant north of Miami and started randomly firing at the people inside, Rodriguez said. He later got into a vehicle and drove away. Police identified the shooter as 38-year-old Gerardo Regalado of Coral Gables. Eduardo Rodriguez, who works in the family-run restaurant, told the Miami Herald the shooter entered the building "like a wild man, with a gun in hand, and began shooting indiscriminately." 'Please call 911' Another employee called her brother after the shooting, saying she had been shot and was bleeding."Please call 911," Felix Fuentes said his sister, Ivette Coronado, told him. He said the 32-year-old woman was recovering Monday after undergoing surgery for gunshot wounds to her chest and one of her arms.

Police found the gunman a short time later in the vehicle parked a few blocks from the restaurant. He had taken his own life, police said.
Three people were hospitalized in critical condition, police said. The other four victims were pronounced dead at the scene. Police identified one of the deceased as Liazan Morales, 24, who shared an address with Regalado, but their relationship was unclear.
The Miami Herald identified the other victims as Maysel Figueroa, 32, of Hialeah; Lavina M. Fonseca, 47, of Hialeah; and Zaida Castillo, 56, of Hialeah.

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