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Seven Guns and 1,000 Rounds Seized from UCSB Student

Sheriff’s deputies arrested the UC Santa Barbara student after a shot was fired through the wall of his Isla Vista apartment, officials said.

BY NBC LOS ANGELES

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.