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Wyoming police probe letter written by senior center shooter

A Wyoming man who shot three people at the senior citizen apartment complex where he lived, killing a complex employee before he killed himself, wrote a letter before the shooting expressing concern about poker games being held in the complex, police said Thursday.

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Dan Long, spokesman for Cheyenne Police said that one victim was shot inside the Heritage Court Apartments and two were shot outside, reports the Guardian.

Investigators identified the gunman as Larry Rosenberg, 77, a resident at Heritage Court Apartments, an affordable living complex for senior citizens, wyomingnews.com reports.

The 77-year-old allegedly shot two people outside the compound and one person inside before he left. Wounded in the shooting were complex residents and residents Gregory Gilbert, 65, and Larry Warwick, 74.

Although authorities did not provide a motive, a resident tells the AP that Rosenberg was upset about poker games being played in the building’s common area. Eastman said she left the letter in her apartment and didn’t read it until later — after she returned to find the building a crime scene.

Rosenberg fled the complex after the shootings, which occurred shortly after 11 a.m., and killed himself as officers approached him near the complex, Long said.

This case remains under investigation by the Cheyenne Police Department.

Detectives on Thursday were conducting additional interviews with apartment complex residents, Long said. “Sleeping on the recliner”.

Eastman said she liked Rosenberg and they often went to yard sales together. Other reports indicate there might have been a fourth victim who is deceased, but police have not confirmed that information.

The woman, whose mother lives at the home, 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. City police handled six homicide cases previous year, the department’s annual report said.

Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, has a population of 60,000.

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