text: Santa Monica College on Sunday announced the death of 26-year-old student Marcela Franco, making her the fifth victim to die from Friday's shooting rampage. 
   
   "I am saddened to report that Marcela Franco passed away this morning at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center," Santa Monica College President Chui L. Tsang said in a statement posted on the school's website. "Her family was with her by her side. Marcela had registered to attend classes this summer at SMC and was with her father Carlos when Friday’s tragedy struck." 
   
   "Our deepest sympathies go to the Franco family. At the appropriate time, the college will convene a campus-wide memorial. We will provide details going forward." 
   
   Franco's 68-year-old father, Carlos, a groundskeeper at the college, was also killed in Friday's shootings. They were driving to the school when a gunman opened fire on them during a rampage that left three others dead. 
   
   The gunman, John Zawahri, 23, was later killed by police during a confrontation in the college's library. 
   
   The Santa Monica College Foundation has started the Carlos Franco Family Memorial Fund. 
   
   “Carlos was truly a family man,” Tsang wrote in a letter to the campus community. “He was a dedicated husband and father and an integral part of the Santa Monica College family. His dedicated work to the campus grounds was enjoyed by students and visitors for two decades. He will be sorely missed.” 
   
   Carlos Franco was driving Marcela to campus to buy books for her summer classes at the college when Zawahri fired at their Ford Explorer. 
   
   The elder Franco died at the scene. 
   
   Police said the 10-minute rampage began just before noon Friday, at a house on Yorkshire Avenue that was set on fire. Authorities later found the bodies of the gunman’s father, Samir Zawahri, 55, and brother, Chris, 25, inside. 
   
   By the time police caught up with John Zawahri at the college library, killing him in a shootout, the gunman had slain an unidentified woman outside the building and wounded several others along the way. Law enforcement sources described Zawahri as an emotionally troubled person who armed himself with high-powered weapons and may have had up to 1,300 rounds of ammunition. 
   
   In his letter to the college community Saturday, Tsang remembered Carlos Franco as a dedicated 22-year employee and quoted his supervisor, Tom Corpus, who described him as “a very, very hard worker.” 
   
   “He loved his job,” Corpus said. “He tried to make people happy and make sure he did the best job he could. He was all about his job. He was just a great asset to the college. Everything Carlos did was for the college and for his family.” 
   
   At the time of the shooting, Carlos and Marcela were on their way to meet his oldest daughter, Leticia, for a doctor’s appointment, Tsang wrote. 
   
   Franco is survived by his wife, Ramona, who works at Saint John’s Hospital Child Study Center, Tsang said, noting that a son died two summers ago in a traffic accident. 
   
   Donations to the Franco family memorial fund can be made online or by mail to the Santa Monica College Foundation, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 
   
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   kim.christensen@latimes.com ||||| Story highlights Marcela Franco, 26, has died, a relative and a college president say 
   
   The shooting suspect is identified by police as John Zawahri 
   
   His father, Samir, and brother Chris were two of the five people killed 
   
   The gunman also killed a driver on a college campus and a woman near the library 
   
   A 26-year-old woman who had registered to take summer classes at Santa Monica College died Sunday from wounds she suffered in a shooting spree Friday that left four others, including her father, dead. 
   
   Marcela Franco was with her father, Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, in an SUV on campus when they were shot. She was going to buy textbooks at the time. 
   
   Carlos Navarro Franco died; Marcela Franco was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. 
   
   Relative Alfred Creollo told CNN Sunday that Marcela Franco had died. College President Chui L.Tsang also confirmed the death. 
   
   "Her family was with her by her side," Tsang said in a message to the school community. "Our deepest sympathies go to the Franco family. At the appropriate time, the College will convene a campus-wide memorial." 
   
   The school has created a fund honoring the Franco family. 
   
   The suspect in the shootings has been identified by Santa Monica police as John Zawahri. 
   
   John Zawahri in a 2006 yearbook photo from Santa Monica High School. 
   
   Authorities say he killed his father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, and brother, Chris Zawahri, in a Santa Monica house before carjacking a woman and firing at a public bus on Friday. 
   
   Scant details are trickling in about Zawahri, who was killed by police at Santa Monica College on Friday -- the day before his 24th birthday. 
   
   The superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu school district said Zawahri attended a high school for students behind in academic credits in 2006. 
   
   "We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragedy that ... once again, shatters our nation's confidence," Superintendent Sandra Lyon said. 
   
   Police had contact with the Zawahri in 2006, but because he was a juvenile, authorities couldn't release further information, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said. 
   
   A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Saturday that the gunman had suffered from mental health issues. A few years ago, he was hospitalized for treatment after allegedly talking about harming someone, according to the official. 
   
   It's not clear whether the state government or his family committed him for treatment or whether he committed himself. It's also unclear under what circumstances he was released. 
   
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   Authorities have found no link to domestic or international terrorism, the official added. 
   
   The gunman and a family member had been enrolled in Santa Monica College as recently as 2010. 
   
   Authorities believe the house was set on fire before Sam and Chris Zawahri were shot. 
   
   The 13-minute shooting spree that followed spanned several parts of Santa Monica. 
   
   One of the five people killed was shot outside the library of the school, college Police Chief Albert Vasquez said. That woman's name has not been released. 
   
   The assailant dressed in black and carried an assault-style rifle. Seabrooks estimated the gunman had about 1,300 rounds of ammunition during the rampage. Because he was wearing a ballistic vest and was heavily armed, "I would say it's premeditated," she said. 
   
   His apparently random gunfire became the nation's latest disturbing killing spree, ending with his death in the college library and leaving this tourist beachfront city reeling with shock. 
   
   Investigators are still trying to determine the motive in the shootings that also left four people wounded. 
   
   Neighbors' stories 
   
   Jerry Cunningham stepped onto her porch when she heard the shots. She saw the gunman firing at a neighboring house that was on fire. 
   
   She then saw the gunman force a woman to stop her car at gunpoint. 
   
   Another car approached. The gunman waved it by, Cunningham said. That driver, also a woman, hesitated for just a moment, and the gunman "fired three shots directly into her and the car," Cunningham said. 
   
   The motorist was wounded in the shoulder, she said. Authorities said that driver was hospitalized and is in stable condition. 
   
   The gunman then got into the first car and forced the woman to drive off with him, police said. 
   
   During their ride, 911 calls poured in, keeping police on the gunman's path, Santa Monica police Sgt. Richard Lewis said. 
   
   As the car headed toward the campus of the community college, where 30,000 students are registered, he opened fire on a passing bus, slightly wounding three people, Lewis said. 
   
   He was carrying an "AR-15 style rifle," pistols and more clips for the rifle, Lewis said. 
   
   As the car pulled onto the campus, the man fired into Franco's red SUV, killing him and critically wounding his daughter, police said. Franco's vehicle crashed after the shooting. 
   
   The gunman then abandoned the hijacked vehicle -- leaving the driver unhurt -- and ran, shooting at police, Lewis said. 
   
   Inside a classroom 
   
   Jasmine Franco, 22, was in a classroom at Santa Monica College -- next to the library -- waiting for her English class to start at noon on Thursday. Little did she know that the gunman began his rampage at a house close to where she lives with her mother, Carmen. 
   
   Jasmine Franco's friend had left the room to fill his water bottle, and she was sitting alone when she first became aware something was wrong. 
   
   "You could hear rumbling, a lot of rumbling," she said, describing the sounds of gunfire mixed with the stampede of people running. "It sounded like an earthquake or something," 
   
   But her 11 classmates and the teacher appeared oblivious and continued their banter until her friend burst back in. "His whole face was red and his veins were coming out of his neck. 
   
   "I'm entirely serious," Franco recalled him saying. "There's a shooter on campus." 
   
   He told the class he had heard a gun unload. "He said it just sprayed and unloaded tons of rounds," Franco said. 
   
   Not knowing what to do, "We just sat there." 
   
   The teacher left the classroom to see what he could learn and, moments later, ran back inside. "He says, 'They just unloaded a magazine.'" 
   
   With the exception of the gunman's father and brother, all of the other shooting victims were apparently chosen at random.
target: – The death toll in Friday's Santa Monica shooting spree has risen to five victims, with 26-year-old Marcela Franco passing away in the hospital today, CNN reports. Franco was taken to the hospital in critical condition after she and her father, Carlos Navarro Franco, 68, were shot on the campus of Santa Monica College. Her father, who the Los Angeles Times reports worked for the college as a groundskeeper, died at the scene. The two were reportedly on their way to buy books for Marcela's summer classes when the gunman, IDed as John Zawahri, shot at their Ford Explorer. "Her family was with her by her side," said the college president in a message to the school community. "Our deepest sympathies go to the Franco family. At the appropriate time, the College will convene a campus-wide memorial." Click for early thoughts on Zawahri's motive.