town next to the santa barbara campus. seven dead, seven in hospitals. we spoke to a young man named robert johnson who works for the u.c. santa barbara newspaper, the daily nexus, and he was standing there on a street corner. i asked him what he heard and what he saw. listen. i was standing on a street corner. i had heard, i guess, what sounded i now know to be gunshots, but at that time i thought maybe they were fireworks or firecrackers going off, which isn t an uncommon occurrence here. and then, i was standing on the street corner, and this black bmw turns through the intersection and goes down the street away from me. and about maybe two seconds later i heard a pop. at first, i remember looking at the car and thinking it had backfired, which i remember thinking was strange, because it was such a new car, and it happened again. and by this time, it had reac d reached he was right outside