DRIVER'S RAMPAGE : 'Everyone needs to be killed,'

"Everyone needs to be killed,'' Omeed Aziz Popal calmly told officers as he sat in the back of a police car after a hit-and-run rampage that left one person dead in Fremont and 19 injured in San Francisco.

Just why the 29-year-old unemployed automotive worker allegedly said that remains a mystery. His family says he is mentally ill.
But his comments, as recorded in police reports filed by three officers who spoke with Popal, suggest a level of planning that may belie claims of mental illness, authorities say.

Popal made his remarks to officers minutes after his sport utility vehicle was boxed in by police cruisers Tuesday afternoon outside a drugstore in the Laurel Heights neighborhood.

The windshield was smashed and the hood crumpled. In intersections and on sidewalks stretching for blocks east lay people who had been hit and injured by a Honda Pilot that went out of its way to run pedestrians down.
In Fremont, the body of 54-year-old Stephen Jay Wilson was under a tarp in the field where he landed after being rammed by a Honda Pilot as he walked in a bike lane.

Authorities say he was Popal's first victim, and on Thursday prosecutors in Alameda County charged him with murder.
Popal was already accused of 18 counts of attempted murder and other felonies in San Francisco, where prosecutors will have first crack at him. The 19th injured person was a police officer who was in his cruiser when Popal allegedly struck it.

Popal faces felony battery on a peace officer in connection with that injury.
Popal told San Francisco police that he had thought about killing people "since yesterday," according to one police report filed by an officer based at the Richmond District station.

The suspect's cousin, Hamid Nekrawesh, said Popal embarked on his rampage after he tricked his mother and sister into getting out out of his SUV shortly before noon Tuesday in Fremont and drove off.
Popal told one officer that he "wanted to come to San Francisco and kill people,'' and another officer that "everyone needs to be killed,'' the police reports said.

"I planned to kill those people I ran over last night -- they needed to be killed,'' Popal said at one point.
His antipathy for people, as portrayed in the police reports, was punctuated by particular hatred for his father. Relatives have said Popal's parents, with whom he still lives in Fremont, kept a close eye on him and allowed him little freedom because of what they described as his mental instability and their desire to shield him from "evil people."

Popal told San Francisco police that he wanted to kill his father, Najib Popal.

He also said he had already killed his father by cutting off his hands.

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