No motive was disclosed for the shootings. but a woman who knew Rosenberg said he had grown distant recently.
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“His problem really was that damned poker gambling”.
Cheyenne Police Department spokesman Dan Long called it a “letter of discontent” but did not provide more details about what Larry Rosenberg, 77, wrote before he opened fire at Heritage Court Apartments.
Larry Rosenberg fled after the shootings armed with a handgun and rifle.
Police initially reported that all three victims were residents of Heritage Court Apartments at 3912 Gregg Way, where the shootings took place.
One resident told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that Rosenberg had always been upset about the poker game that ran three times a week.
“Sunday, Monday and then Wednesday”, Eastman said. “Sleeping on the recliner”.
Heritage Court Apartments has 32 affordable housing units for households with at least one member age 62 or older, according to its website. She returned to find the complex had turned into a crime scene. But Eastman’s daughter, Margaret Rosso, said Rosenberg had become standoffish in recent months.
Rosso said: “He started getting more and more distant, complaining about the facility and about people and just kind of pulling away, isolating himself more and more”.
A lawyer for the family of Sandra Bland, a black Chicago-area woman who died in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop last summer, says a $1.9 million settlement has been reached in the family’s. The two wounded men were transported to the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, their current condition is unknown.
The care home was cordoned off by police as they combed the scene.
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Multiple shootings are rare in Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital city with a population of just over 60,000. According to NBC News, the Cheyenne Police Department placed two nearby elementary schools on lockdown for several hours during the investigation into the shootings.
