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Guns, ammo seized at UC Santa Barbara student’s Isla Vista apartment

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Sheriff’s deputies arrested a UC Santa Barbara student this week on charges of accidentally discharging his gun, narrowly missing striking a neighbor with a bullet, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.

Kevin Tym, 21, admitted to deputies that he was playing with his legally owned Glock when it discharged about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, shooting through his neighbor’s wall in the 6500 block of Pardall Road, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The bullet was apparently deflected off a TV stand and lodged in a wall, just missing his neighbor, sheriff’s officials said.

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The incident occurred hours before a memorial was planned at UC Santa Barbara for six students who were killed in Friday’s deadly rampage through Isla Vista, when 22-year-old Elliot Rodger stabbed three students, shot three others and injured 13 before apparently killing himself.

UC Santa Barbara officials had declared Tuesday a day of mourning and reflection and classes had been canceled.

Tym, an Isla Vista resident, had seven firearms, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and high-capacity assault rifle magazines, sheriff’s officials said.

He legally owned all of his firearms, they said.

He was arrested on suspicion of negligent discharge and possessing high-capacity magazines.

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