TUSTIN, Calif. — The first of three people killed in a gunman's rampage was identified Wednesday as a 20-year-old woman but police did not know why she was in the home of the shooter, who lived with his parents and was described by authorities as a video game-playing loner.
Courtney Aoki, 20, of Buena Park was shot multiple times early Tuesday in the home where gunman Ali Syed, 20, lived, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
Authorities don't know her occupation, how she might have known Syed, how she got in the house — or what drove Syed to kill her with a shotgun and then leave a trail of dead and wounded as he stole a series of cars and eventually committed suicide at an intersection.
"There is no evidence, no notes that would explain his very bizarre and violent behavior," Amormino said.
Syed was a loner and a "gamer" who spent hours holed up in his room, authorities said.
"He took one class at college and he did not work, so that gives him most of the day and evening and most of the time in his free time he was playing video games," Amormino said.
See what happens when you play hours upon hours of video games...sorry your going to have to excuse me right now I'm off to play COD III and really need to kill some more of those scum sucking bastard nazi's.
