A man who killed three people and wounded two others on a Christmas party overnight was found dead on Thursday from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Los Angeles police said.
The 45-year-old man committed suicide around 3:30 a.m. on Christmas at his home in Sylmar, a suburb about 50 kilometers north of downtown Los Angeles, after his shooting spree at the Christmas Eve gathering.
Bruce Jeffery Pardo was in a Santa Claus suit when he showed up at the Christmas party and began shooting, before torching the house in Covina of east Los Angeles, according to police spokesman Pat Buchanan.
Police did not release information about the three people killed at the party, but said that an 8-year-old girl and a woman in her 20s wounded in the attack are expected to survive.
Pardo, who was reportedly estranged from his wife and in a messy divorce, used cocktails to set the house on fire, according to local television reports.
Describing the incident as "extremely unusual and very shocking, " Buchanan said that the killings were just not something people saw at any time of the year, especially during Christmas. - PNA
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