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Seattle Gunman: 'Plenty For Everyone'

The young man who killed six people at a house party over the weekend had brought three guns, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, a baseball bat and a black machete, and told guests as he blazed away, "There's plenty for everyone," authorities said Monday.

Aaron Kyle Huff, 28, was "clearly intent on doing homicidal mayhem," Deputy Police Chief Clark Kimerer said.

However, investigators still have no idea why, he said.

"We may be asking these questions over the next year or two," Kimerer said. "Hopefully we will find some answers."

Huff committed suicide when confronted by an officer outside the house early Saturday. Toxicology results will not be available for several days, Kimerer said.

Police said the victims, many of them dressed up as zombies in black with white face paint, had met Huff earlier in the night at a rave called "Better Off Undead" and invited him to a party at their rented home.

The Capitol Hill neighborhood is described as an eclectic young neighborhood going through a regentrification process, reports CBS News correspondent Vince Gonzales. The partygoers were described as all good friends and the suspect was one of the guests.

"She shouldn't have gone to the rave and I never approved of those things," the mother of a woman at the party told CBS News. "But it's kind of like, tell them no and they go anyway. I would rather know."

Huff left the party at about 7 a.m. and returned wearing bandoliers of ammunition and carrying a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun and a handgun. He fired on the 30 young partygoers gathered in the house before walking out.

At a news conference, detectives also displayed an assault rifle, baseball bat and machete seized from Huff's pickup truck. He had more than 300 rounds of ammunition, Kimerer said. The detectives said they seized additional weapons from the apartment he shared with his twin brother, but did not describe them.

The attack was "clearly a premeditated and well-planned assault on innocent people," Kimerer said earlier. "It is very clear that he had thought out a murderous spree, a campaign."

Police determined that Huff's twin knew nothing of his brother's intentions. Huff had delivered pizzas during the five years he lived in Seattle.

They were "twin teddy bears," Regina Gray, manager of Town & Country Apartments, said Sunday. "He and his twin brother are the kindest, sweetest, gentlest people."

Two people wounded in the shooting were in satisfactory condition.

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