Four people are dead and at least two others wounded in a shooting rampage that led authorities from Ladera Ranch to Orange early Tuesday, authorities said.

One woman was shot and killed in Ladera Ranch, and authorities said the gunman then carjacked three vehicles in and around Tustin.

“I killed someone, today is my last day,” Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan said the man told one of his victims.

Two people were killed in the carjackings, one shot in what police described as an “execution” at the side of the road. Two others people were wounded before the man suspected in the shootings stopped in Orange, walked out of the car and shot himself with a shotgun.

The gunman was identified by authorities as Ali Syed, a 21-year-old Ladera Ranch man who was student and lived with his parents. His connection to the woman killed in Ladera Ranch, identified only as a woman in her 20s, was unknown, authorities said.

Two of the men killed during the carjackings were also identified by authorities.

 

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