US shooting spree kills 5

A black-clad gunman killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California Friday, before police shot him dead in a college library, officials said.
The assailant began by killing his father and brother before a random string of slayings in Santa Monica, only a few miles from an event attended by President Barack Obama.
One witness described how the gunman, a white male aged 25 to 30 carrying an ammunition belt and a semi-automatic rifle, shot a motorist at point-blank range before hijacking another vehicle.
Police revised the death toll late Friday, telling journalists that five including the gunman were killed, down from earlier reports of seven.
Five more were wounded, including one critically.
The shooting is the latest in an all-too regular succession of such rampages, which fuel the gun control debate in America.