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A GUNMAN has killed six people in a hail of bullets during a drive-by shooting.

SHOT: A car windscreen is shattered after being hit by a bullet[AP]

Officers are investigating a video posted the day before by the British-born student in which he rants about “slaughtering” women and having “revenge against humanity.”
Locals say he is the son of Peter Rodger, assistant director of the Hunger Games films.
His family also confirmed that he had been receiving psychiatric care.
The rampage, which has been described by police as “mass murder” happened last night near the University of California in Santa Barbara.
A man in a black BMW repeatedly shot through an open window before crashing his car after exchanging gunfire with police.
Six people died and another seven were injured. 

INVESTIGATION: A screenshot from the video which police are investigating [YOUTUBE]

The shooter was then found dead by police in his car with a gunshot wound to the head but it is still unclear whether this was self-inflicted or happened during the police shoot-out.
Investigators are now looking into a video post made by Rodger, a 22-year-old student from the Isla Vista area.
He posted an online rant, entitled “Elliot Rodger's Retriibution” about “slaughtering” women who had rejected his advances.
"I will have my revenge against humanity," he says, vowing to retaliate with a mass slaughter of college students and Isla Vista residents. "I will punish all of you for it." 

TRAGIC: Ambulances arrive on scene after the killing rampage [AP]

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said: "We have obtained and are currently analysing videotaped evidence that suggests that this atrocity was a premeditated mass murder."
He also wrote a blog post on April 16th which detailed how 'lonely' he was and how he had 'tried desperately to fit in with the social scene'.
Rodger is believed to have attended Santa Barbara City College, near to where the shootings took place.
Police are holding an investigation to uncover the motive behind the rampage and are currently investigating nine different crime scenes.  

FATAL: Bodies are covered next to a bicycle of those killed in the shootings [AP]

Eyewitnesses spoke of their terror when the horror unfolded at 9.30pm last night.
A man told KEYT-TV that he saw the gunman shoot and critically injure a woman nearby.
The student said: "I heard shots, scream, pain. All emotions. I hope she is going to be fine."
College student Brad Martin told a University of California at Santa Barbara student newspaper that his girlfriend was "absolutely hysterical" after being approached by the gunman with a weapon she initially was not sure was real.
"She said the next second he raised it up to her face ... and she turned around and started running. That's when she heard 'bang, bang, bang' right behind her as she was running," Martin said.
Authorities recovered a semiautomatic handgun. 

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT