SANTA MONICA, Calif.—A 39-year-old man suspected of shooting a co-worker at a Santa Monica College (SMC) satellite campus, prompting a manhunt and causing the college to close all its campuses, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a standoff Tuesday in Hawthorne.
Police from various agencies, including the Santa Monica Police Department, descended around 4 p.m. on Aviation Boulevard, north of El Segundo Boulevard, and surrounded Davon Durell Dean inside a car that wound up facing the wrong way on the roadway as it was pinned in by squad cars and armored SWAT vehicles.
Dean was later found dead inside the car after being discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD)….