SoCal residents were among victims in Reno mass shooting
According to friends, the victims of attraction at a Reno Casino on Monday were the inhabitants of South California who joined a bachelor party.
Violence began immediately after 7:30, when the unidentified armed man passed through a parking lot from the north and emerged in the Valet area of the Grand Sierra Resort. In a statement to the friends of the victims Times, he encountered a group visiting the thousand Oak.
According to the police, the armed man walked towards the group and tried to shoot, but the weapon malfunction. The group began to disintegrate, just as the man started to run the gun and started to shoot.
Andrew Canepa was shot several times and died in the hospital, according to two friends who wanted anonymity until the victims were officially identified. Canepa, father of a little son, was a owner and presenter at Sidestreet Cafe in Newbury Park, a popular breakfast and lunch restaurant.
Dylan McLean was shot on his shoulder and jumped into a nearby truck and asked the driver to take him to the hospital. During the driving, he called his friend Matt Harper Sitler, who was shot more than one time and hidden from the armed man.
The sites were hospitalized and listed in critical state and placed on Monday to life support. In the evening, he was able to breathe on his own, his friends told Times. The first words after the attack, “Andrew okay?”
Another friend in the group was immediately shot and killed at the scene, but was not officially defined.
All of the group attacked in Casino, 2010 graduates, a thousand oaks height and many of them played high school sports together.
The group stayed in an Airbnb near Lake Tahoe before spent on Sunday night in the casino. They woke up early on Monday, left the hotel and were waiting at the Valet station to take them to the airport when the shooter arrived.
In the middle of the chaos at the valet station, a Casino security guard answered and fired the armed person and fled the shooter. When he fled, he met a vehicle passing through the parking lot and opened fire and killed the driver. Shortly after, the police arrived and exposed the suspect to a conflict and critically injured.
Reno Police Chief Kathryn Nans said, “This is terrible for any community, not only for the victims of any community, the first intervention teams and the people who are there, but also for everyone who is involved in our community.” He said. “Violence is unacceptable especially in our public spaces.”
Three people were killed and three were injured with the armed man. The police said that there was no connection between the armed and their victims in the afternoon, Monday afternoon. The suspect’s identity has not yet been published.
“The suspect has no known reason,” Sparks Police Chief Chris Crawfort said at a press conference.
Grand Sierra Resort is one of the largest hotel and casino complexes in Reno. The 27 -storey building has approximately 2,000 rooms, casinos, hot springs and restaurants. Previously, MGM and then Bally’s Hotel and Resort were branded. The work was open on Tuesday and operated.
Personnel writer Summer Lin contributed to this report.
