Students from University of California campuses from Los Angeles to Santa Cruz and beyond grieve in solidarity.
"It didn’t really hit me until coming here and listening to people talk and hearing the names of the victims,” said Jocelyn Zacapa, a student from U.S. Santa Cruz.
Three men stabbed, two women and a fourth man shot - all targets of a 22-year-old social outcast’s murderous rage, who called this his “Day of Retribution”.
He didn’t know half of the victims he’s blamed for killing friday night, and despite his troubled mental state, he was able to legally purchase firearms and ammunition and keep them hidden from law enforcement, who visited him on a welfare check less than a month ago.
"Kids keep dying, the guns keep showing up everywhere," said Bob Weiss, father of Veronika Weiss, one of the victims.
Veronika’s father found out his daughter didn’t survive by tracking her iPhone to one of the shooting scenes when they hadn’t heard from her a few hours after the shooting - he knew if she were alive, she would have called.
Six were killed before investigators say their killer turned the gun on himself, and so many left behind, hurting, who were there, but helpless.
"His body was rolled over and I was giving him CPR and I looked down and I recognized his face," said Alyssa Hopper, a witness.
The memory of that horrifying night replaying over and over, but no way to change any of it - no matter how many times.
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