Police say Rosenberg was acquainted with the three shooting victims and there is believed to have been a long standing animosity between Rosenberg and the victims. They conspired to rob a poker game along with two associates, one of whom, Ramon Vasquez, was shot dead in the incident.
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Gilbert was one of the organizers of the poker games held three times a week that bothered some residents, said Mary Eastman, a resident who described Rosenberg as a friendly man who went with her to yard sales.
According to police, The victims were Matthew Wilson, Gregory Gilbert, and Larry Warwick.
One resident told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that Rosenberg had always been upset about the poker game that ran three times a week.
Detectives on Thursday were conducting additional interviews with apartment complex residents, Long said.
The apartment complex advertises online that it has 34 one-bedroom affordable units for households including at least one person 62 or older. He said Wednesday there are several nursing homes in the area and a fire station up the street.
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”. To haul them people in we don’t know.
Long did not identify the victims or provide information about the conditions of the victims who were wounded. Attempts to reach Rosenberg’s family weren’t successful. Messages left with the complex’s owner, Accessible Space Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota, were not immediately returned.
Police comforted a distraught woman at the scene.
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Multiple shootings are a rarity in Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming with a resident population of just over 60,000 people. According to the local police department annual report, the city police handled six homicide cases previous year.
