WOMAN FATALLY SHOT, 7 HURT AT POOL

Shooter apparently targeting blacks is killed by officers at San Diego apartment complex, police say.

One woman was killed and seven people were wounded, several critically, when a man opened fire Sunday at a San Diego apartment complex swimming pool where a number of adults were attending a birthday party.

Police rushed to the apartment building in the University City area and fatally shot the man after he pointed his gun at officers, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said.

Authorities received several calls just after 6 p.m. about the shooting at the La Jolla Crossroads apartments, an upscale complex in the 9000 block of Judicial Drive.

The reports were grim: a white man wearing brown shorts was armed with a gun and shooting at what two witnesses described as approximately 30 people around the pool, most of them African American.

A police helicopter reac-

hed the area first and, from above, authorities could see a shooter near the pool who appeared to be reloading his weapon, Zimmerman said.

Three officers arrived and went to the pool area. There, the gunman pointed what was described as a large-caliber handgun at police, and all three officers opened fire. The shooter, whom police have not identified, was pronounced dead. The gunman, identified as Peter Selis, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Seven people, all adults, were hit by gunfire: four black women, two black men and a Latino man. A black woman later died at the hospital. Her name was not released. A black man broke his arm while fleeing the shooting, Zimmerman said.

It was unclear what motivated the shooting and police were still interviewing witnesses, including the responding officers. Zimmerman said the gunman and at least one of the partygoers lived at the apartment complex.

A resident at the complex told KFMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, that he was in his apartment about 6 p.m. when he heard gunshots followed by yelling and screams. He said he ran to his building’s clubhouse, where he could see the pool.

The shooter seemed at ease, he said, while bloodied victims struggled.

“He had his beer in one hand and his gun in the other,” said the witness, who provided only his first name, John. “There were two victims lying on the ground, one trying to crawl toward the other one to help.”

Amberjot Riat, 22, and Kaela Wong, 20, were in the jacuzzi at the complex when the gunfire erupted. Riat said they stayed in the water in hopes of avoiding the shooter’s attention. They heard the gunman speak to young women who were attending to a wounded friend. “You can either leave or you can stay here and die,” he reportedly told them.