Thanks for the feedback. My wife suspected a disgruntled employee. Close enough. BTW, the SKS is not a high powered rifle. It shoots a medium power 123 gr .311 caliber bullet. There is a fair amount of surplus Russian ammo with a steel shell between the outer copper jacket and inner lead core. That might appear to be an AP round, but it really isn't. The rifle isn't particularly long range or exceptionally accurate. Most of them (like my Romanian variant) are 5 MOA rifles i.e. they can only repeatably put rounds in a 5 inch circle at 100 yards. My "good" rifles maintain under 1/2 inch at 100 yards.
My condolences on the loss of your neighbor, friends and officers.
Thanks for the feedback. My wife suspected a disgruntled employee. Close enough. Actually, not. this guy was not an applicant, but rather a convict (well of a misdemeanor assault on a former live in girlfriend.) Also a wife killer, as well as a cop killer and grandfather killer (I'm a well armed grandfather myself).
Through all this firing of 180+ rounds, the police never fired their weapons, and waited four hours after the last shot was fired (apparently by the perp when he shot himself) before "storming" the church.