<p>The shooter, named as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion, used an AK-47 assault rifle in the early morning attack in Carson City, in which three Guardsmen were among the dead and two injured before he turned the gun on himself.<br /><br />Three people were pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, with the fourth, a female member of the National Guard, confirmed overnight.<br /><br />“This is a real tragic event,” Sheriff Ken Furlong said, adding in a briefing late Tuesday that he believed it was “the largest single shooting incident to occur in Carson City history.”<br /><br />Witnesses called emergency services shortly after 9:00 am (1600 GMT) when they saw an armed man in the parking lot of the International House of Pancakes, a chain restaurant.<br /><br />The five National Guard members -- two women and three men -- were having an informal meeting when Sencion — also known as Eduardo Perez-Gonzalez -- came in and fired on their table, Furlong said.<br /><br />The sheriff’s office said he then went outside, where “his shooting spree continued into the restaurant’s parking lot, culminating in him turning the gun on himself.”<br /><br />Mexican-born Sencion — a Carson City resident with a US passport and no criminal history, according to police records — initially survived, but died later of his wounds.</p>
<p>The shooter, named as 32-year-old Eduardo Sencion, used an AK-47 assault rifle in the early morning attack in Carson City, in which three Guardsmen were among the dead and two injured before he turned the gun on himself.<br /><br />Three people were pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, with the fourth, a female member of the National Guard, confirmed overnight.<br /><br />“This is a real tragic event,” Sheriff Ken Furlong said, adding in a briefing late Tuesday that he believed it was “the largest single shooting incident to occur in Carson City history.”<br /><br />Witnesses called emergency services shortly after 9:00 am (1600 GMT) when they saw an armed man in the parking lot of the International House of Pancakes, a chain restaurant.<br /><br />The five National Guard members -- two women and three men -- were having an informal meeting when Sencion — also known as Eduardo Perez-Gonzalez -- came in and fired on their table, Furlong said.<br /><br />The sheriff’s office said he then went outside, where “his shooting spree continued into the restaurant’s parking lot, culminating in him turning the gun on himself.”<br /><br />Mexican-born Sencion — a Carson City resident with a US passport and no criminal history, according to police records — initially survived, but died later of his wounds.</p>