Sheriff’s deputies seized several guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition from the Isla Vista apartment of a UC Santa Barbara student who was arrested after he accidentally fired one of his weapons Tuesday, officials said.
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Santa Barbara sheriff’s deputies were called about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to an apartment in the 6500 block of Pardall Road after a resident reported a bullet being shot into her home. Deputies found that the bullet had been shot through her wall from a connecting apartment, narrowly missing her.
Deputies went next door and questioned 21-year-old Kevin Tym, who allegedly admitted that he was playing with his legally owned handgun and accidentally fired off a round.
During a search of his apartment, deputies found and seized seven firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, including a high-capacity assault rifle magazine.
All of the firearms were legally owned by Tym, deputies said.
Tym faces a charge of negligent discharge of a firearm.
The incident was unrelated to last Friday’s mass killings near the university campus.
