Slain Santa Monica gunman John Zawahri left behind a note on his
body apologizing for killing his father and his brother and
hoping his father's estate would support his mother, police said
Friday.  Zawahri, 23, who lived with his father in a house that
was also set afire, wrote a three- to four-page handwritten
letter in which he spent a "larger" measure of it saying good-
bye to his friends than talking about his family, police said.
Authorities described the tone of the letter as "conversational
talk" without "overall hatred to anything," a police spokesman
said.  "He was sorry for having killed his father. He was sorry
for having killed his brother, that he hoped his mother would be
looked after financially and that she would receive financial
recompense from the father's estate, and he said goodbye to his
friends," said Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks
said.  "It was more of a farewell," Seabrooks added.  No motive
to his alleged shooting -- in which a total of five people were
killed -- wa