IHOP shooting: Nevada gunman kills three in diner
LONDON. September 7. KAZINFORM A gunman wielding an AK-47 assault rifle has killed three people at a pancake restaurant in the Nevada state capital Carson City, officials say; Kazinform refers to BBC.
Seven others were wounded in the attack at the International House of Pancakes chain at 09:00 (16:00 GMT).
Two of the three people killed were National Guardsmen in uniform, with several other Guards injured.
The suspect, named by police as Eduardo Sencion, 32, then shot himself and died later at a hospital in Reno.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Sencion had no known connection to the military and no known reason to attack the National Guard.
'Petrified'
Nevertheless, police said that once he entered the restaurant he took aim and shot every National Guard member in uniform.
Special Agent Patrick Turner, spokesman for the FBI Nevada office in Las Vegas, said that seven people had been wounded.
The police and FBI descended on the restaurant in South Carson Street, also known as US 395, the city's main route.
Witnesses said a man with a rifle pulled up outside the IHOP, shot at a man on a motorcycle and then walked inside the restaurant.
A local restaurant owner told the Associated Press he tried to shoot the attacker with his own weapon, but he entered the pancake restaurant before he had a chance to take aim; Kazinform cites BBC.
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