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Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, a longtime groundskeeper at Santa Monica College, was shot and killed on June 7, 2013, during a spree shooting in Santa Monica, California. He and his 26-year-old daughter, Marcela Franco, were sitting in their SUV on campus when the gunman opened fire; Carlos died at the scene and Marcela died two days later in hospital.

The shooter, identified as 23-year-old John Zawahri, began his attack earlier that day by setting fire to his family home on Yorkshire Avenue and fatally shooting his father, Samir Zawahri, and his brother, Chris Zawahri. Armed with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and a revolver, he carjacked a vehicle, fired at a city bus and other vehicles en route, and then went onto the Santa Monica College campus where he also killed Margarita Gomez before exchanging gunfire with police. Zawahri was killed by police in the college library.

Franco had been employed at the college for more than two decades; the campus established a memorial fund for his family. What details about the rampage or the victims’ movements remain unclear to readers?